1898 - Coalmininghistorypa.org

Official Document, No. 1Fourth Bituminous District.(TIOGA, POTTKK, BRADFORD, LYCOMING, CLINTON, CAMERON, Mc-KEAN AND ELK COUNTIES, AND ALL THE MINES IN CLEARFIELDCOUNTY ADJACENT TO THE LOW GRADE DIVISION OF THE AL-LEGHENY VALLEY RAILROAD; ALSO THE MINES ADJACENT TOTHE CLEARFIELD AND SUSQUEHANNA I'.RANCH OP THE PENN-SYLVANIA RAILROAD; ALSO THE MINES ADJACENT TO THE BUF-FALO, ROCHESTER AND PITTSBURG RAILROAD IN JEFFERSONAND CLEARFIELD COUNTIES.)Hon. James \N'.Ulossbuij;, Ta., Fcbiuaiy 14, 1891).liaUa, Sccretaiy of Internal Affairs:Sir: I liei'ewitli submit my annual report as Inspector of Mines forthe Fourth Bituminous District of Pennsylvania for the year endinjjfDecember :>Ist, lS!),s, tojiether with statistical tables compiled fromthe operators' repoits returned to my ottice. The r(^turns show anaggregate increase of !)!"), 001 tons over that of the preceding year,which is due largely to steady emjiioynu'iit thi'oughout the district.The total number of fatal casualties were greater than during thepreceding year. Five of these can be chissed as purely accidental,and the others were largely due to lack of proper care on the part ofthe A'ictims. The number of non-fatal casualties is less than for thepreceding year. (Mie additional ventilating Ian was erected, and thegeneral condition of the mines continues to be imi)roved throughoutthe district. The nature and cause of the several accidents will befound more fully described in the table of accidents appended to thisre])ort.Kesjtectfully submitted,.lAMFS N. PATTERSON,Insi>ector.Mining Statistics.Number of mines in dish'ict 68Total |»roducli(tu in tons of coal, 7,r)l(i.!)44Total production in tons of coke 5T.'>,.')4!)Quantity of coal in Ions used for steam and heal !)(;,:>82Sold to local trade and used by emjiloyes 40,958Kailroad shipmeiils in tons of coal 5,!)()5,S7!)Number of days worked 7,574Number of j)ersons emjdoyed, 9,962Number of fatal accidents,X535( 367 )