Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite coal regions of ...

INSPECTORS OF MIXES. 127
panel. Six breasts ave open on No. 7 vein. The Tape vein is also open
by a cross-cut. There are 16 ganii^'ways open in the colliery and 49 breasts
are working', employing 450 men and 100 boys. Four engines=190-horse
power; 17 boilers in use. Ventilation is very good, and produced by the
operation of 2 fans. Two powerful steam purnps are in use. The condition
of the collier}^ and all its appointments are satisfactory.
Ste\v.a.rt:?villi-: Coluery.— Wni. Jlontilius, Operalor, on lands of (he Locust
Mountain Goal and Iron Company. .
It Ci^nsists of 2 slopes Avorlving the E and D veins in 20 and 13 feet tliick.
The upper slope opens the basin, and the coal nearly exhausted. The D
vein is opened by a tunnel, and the coal nearly all extracted. Twenty-six
men are employed in robbing back-pillar coal. The B vein is intended to
be open by a new tunnel. The new slope has been sunk inside at the bottom
of the first lift on the E vein in 25 feet of coal. The vein is nearly
flat. A gangwa}' is driven south through the basin. One steam engine=:
60-horse power, with 6 boilers, are in use ; 44,604 tons of coal had been
mined ; 120 men and 80 bo^^s are employed.
Red Ash Tuxxel.—Achmuty £ Beckel, Owners and Operators.
It consists of a tunnel opening the Lykens Valley vein. Gangways have
been open east and west. A new breaker has been built, and preparations
made fjr shipping a considerable amount of coal in 1876. One engine and
2 boilers are used. The general condition of the colliery is good.
Hickory Swamp Colliery.—Mineral Railroad and Mining Company, Owners
and Operators.
It consists of a slope opening the 8 vein. The west panel is nearly exhausted
of coal. Nos. 8 and 9 veins are opened in the east panel in 7 and
6 feet of good coal. I find the colliery in excellent condition, and ventilation
is produced by a 20-horse power fan ; 140diorse power engines, with
7 gobd boilers, are in use ; 170 men and 55 boys are employed ; 70,519 tons
of coal had been mined, and the general condition of the colliery is satisfactory.
Hickory Ridge Colliery.—Mineral Railroad and Alining Company, Owners
and Operators.
It consists of a tunnel and a slope opening. No. 9 vein is worked by the
slope in 6 feet of coal, with 5 breasts working, and on the west side the
coal is 8 feet thick. No. 8 vein is not worked at present. Exhaust steam
is utilized for ventilating the mine, discharged into the upcast air-course.
A 20-horse power fan is to be introduced for this purpose; 178 yards of a
tunnel opens the south dip of the vein, where 16 breasts are working, and
ventilated by the operation of a furnace; 18,940 tons of coal had been
mined, employing 92 men and 30 boys; the power is=to 190-horse, with
9 boilers, in use. I found the colliery with all its appointments in good
condition, and the men in charge evincing great industry in getting the
colliery in good order.