1873 - Old Forge Coal Mines

INSPECTORS OF MINES. 271
Machinery consists of 1 hoisting engine, 80-horse power; 1 breaker engine,
15-horse power; 1 pumping engine, 100-horse power; 11 boilers.
Issac Smith, mine boss.
Laurel Hill Colliery, Hazleton, Luzerne Co.— Length 543 feet; vertical
293 feet.— Landowners, L. V. R. R. Co.— Operators, A. Pardee & Go.
No. 4 slope, north dip. This slope is used for hoisting men in and out
of the mines, and for pumping ; also the lumber used in the workings of
Nos. 4 and 5.
No. 5 slope, length 375 feet, vertical 293 feet. This slope is sunk through
a rock to the place where the vein takes a rapid pitch, which accounts for
it being shorter than No. 4. There are three tracks in this slope to the
place where it strikes the vein, and two from there to the bottom. The third
track takes the coal from the workings of No. 4 up into the breaker, which
is a lift above the workings of No. 4. The workings of No. 4 are nearly
all in the west gangway, and have many day falls and ample natural ventilation.
No. 5 has one letting down plane in east gangway, owing to the
line of the Diamond coal company being higher than their present line.
Length of gangway and plane about a mile and a quarter. The west gangway
is nearby a mile and a-half in length. The works are well ventilated
by two furnaces, one on each side.
Machinery consists of 3 hoisting engines, 190-horse power; 1 breaker
engine, 20-horse power ; 1 pumping engine, (50-horse power ; 2 large steam
pumps; 20 boilers. Mine boss of No. 4 is Patrick Durkin, and mine bo3s
of No. 5 is John Sleep.
Cranberry Slope, Hazleton, Luzerne county.— Landowners, A. L. & E.
Roberts.— Operators, A. Pardee & Co.
The coal worked is the Big vien ;
thickness 27 feet. There is not much
work on the east side of the slope, only ripping pillars out. The west side
gangway is driven in a considerable distance ; in driving which great difficulties
and obstacles were met with in the shape of rolls and faults, but
they have been successful in getting into a fine field of coal. There arc
two gangways going on in it, one east and the other west. The east gangway
met a roll in the basin, which turned it around to the south, and is at
present going west. The west gangway proper keeps its course. Well
ventilated. Amount of air 7,000 cubic feet per minute.
Machinery consists of 1 hoisting engine, 60-horse power; 1 breaker engine,
20-horse power; 1 pumping engine of 60-horse power; 15 boilers, in
good order. Conrad Miller, mine boss.
Crystal Ridge slope. Length, 444 feet; vertical, 144 feet; north dip.
Landowners, A. L. & E. Roberts. Operators, A. Pardee & Co. This
slope is abandoned for the present.
Crystal Ridge, No. 2. This is a new slope, sunk to bottom of basin and
coal brought up to old Crystal Ridge slope. This is a new work and not
many working in it yet, as they are driving a slope on the Cranberry side
to take the coal to Cranberry side instead of Crystal Ridge.
Machinery consists of 1 hoisting engine of 40-horse power and 2 steam
pumps.