1873 - Old Forge Coal Mines

INSPECTORS OF MINES. 53
lineal heirs of the person whose life was lost for like recovery of damages
for the injury they shall have sustained.
Section 25. All laws of the Commonwealth that are inconsistent with
the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
B. B. STRANG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHAS. H. STINSON,
Approved—The 3d day of March, 1870.
.Speaker of the Senate.
Claims of the Examining Board in April, 1873.
His Honor, Cyrus L. Pershing, president judge of the courts of Schuylkill
county, in compliance with an act of General Assembly, did appoint
Messrs. Frederick J. Anspach, of Shamokin, and George B. Strauch, of
Potts ville, civil and mining engineers, and Michael Corcoran, of Helfenstein,
Thomas Pickering, of St. Clair, and John Young, of Ashland,
practical miners, as a board of examiners, to hold their commissions oneyear.
They having examined all applicants that presented themselves formally
for the office of Inspector of Mines in Shamokin district, and after
sixteen days' session, found Mr. Wm. Hemingray the best qualified for the
duties of that office, and duly recommended his appointment to his Excellency,
Governor John F. Hartranft, who immediately commissioned him
as inspector of said district, made vacant by the resignation of inspector
Edmunds.
The claim of said board, amounting to $337 79, for printing, publishing,
fees, &c.j was referred to the commissioners of Schuylkill county, which
claim is still unpaid ;
this matter had been brought to the notice of the
Honorable Judges Pershing and Dimmick, who, in review of the case, do
not accord the case standing over for legislative action. The bills thus;
created have been often presented and payments refused, occasioning unpleasant
comments upon the action of the commissioners and the act creating
the examining board.
Thus far the said board of examiners patiently awaits the action of
the present Legislature in the matter, hoping this case may meet with a
prompt decision, and hereafter to place the court in power to decide this
claim, enforce its payment, and regulate and direct the proper observance
and the faithful discharge of his duty in all things necessary and expedient
to carry the law into effect.
Dinamite or Giant Powder
is made by mixing nitro glycerine with infusorial earth ; it is an ungrained
powder, of a grayish brown color, resembling moist saw dust in appearance.
Insoluble in water, it is not affected by time or exposure to air and
moisture ;
it congeals at about 42° Fahrenheit ; in the open air or in ordinary
packing it burns without exploding. Its combustion produces carbonic
acid, hypouitrous acid and water; when heated above 212° (the
boiling point of water) it throws off noxious fumes and becomes weakened
and finally destroyed.
For storage it should be kept in a situation having a temperature between
these extremes ; when frozen it can be thawed by being kept for a
time in this proper temperature. It is perfectly safe to thaw this powder
by placing the cartridge in an open vessel and the vessel then placed in hot
water ; when it becomes soft it is then ready for use, and its power uniinpa
ired as it freezes slowly ; no undue haste is required in its application.
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