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

146 ANNUAL REPORT OF TEE
head and plate jnen, G7 men about the breaker, 8 drivers, 80 slate pickers,
in all 218 outside, and 5'2 mules.
Ventilation.—This is produced by a 7-fect diameter fan at slope, No. T.
There are good air-ways Sriven parallel with the g-angway. The breasts
are not very satisfactory ventilated, owing to the one man-way system of
mining.
Machinery.—They use 1 hoisting engines of SlO-horse power, 3 breaker
engines of 60-horse power, 3 pumping engines of 180-horse power, 2 fan
engines of 25-horse power; total number of engines, 15 ; aggregate horse
power, 605.
Wm. Airey, general superintendent; Wm. Barber, foreman.
South Sugar Loaf Colliery.
Located in llazle township, Pa., bounded on the east by Stockton and
on the west by Ilazleton, on the estate of the Diamond coal company, and
operated by A. Pardee & Co.
Slope, No. 3.— Sunk on the north dip of the Mammoth or E vein, at an
angle of 24° to 50° ; length of slope, 667 feet ; perpendicular depth, 382
feet ; elevation above tide at tup of slope, 1,571 feet ; at the bottom of the
same, 1,189 feet. This slope connects in the Avest gangway hy an air-hole
with the plane or counter-gangway, and also connects by another air-hole,
285 feet deep, with Sugar Loaf or No. 2 slope. This slope (No. 2) yields
carburetted hydrogen gas, or fire-damp, but not to a great extent. These
mines are well timbered wherever required, and great care is exercised for
the safety of the men, and the mode of working is considered safe.
Ventilation is produced by the steam exhaust from the pump ; tolerably
ventilated, 10,000 cubic feet per minute circulating through the mines, per
air report for November. Operatives, 96.
Machinery.—They use 1 hoisting and pumping engine of 90-horse power,
1 breaker engine of 25-horse power ; in all 2 engines of 115-horse power,
and 8 steam boilers, cleaned, examined and reported safe and in good condition.
Remarks.—They employ 1 boss, 63 miners, 20 laborers, 7 company men,
4 drivers, 4 door boys, in the mines ; 1 boss, 5 mechanics, 33 breaker men,
1 driver, 45 slate pickers ; in all 184 men and boys in and about the mines
and 15 mules. They shipped (including Sugar Loaf) 68,430.05 tons of coal,
and used 840 kegs of powder ; worked 129j'o t^ays during year ending De-
cember 31, 1875 ;
breaker capacity, 500 tons of coal per daj'.
C. Pardee, superintendent; Thomas Dickinson, general mine superintendent;
William Fatkin, mine boss; John W. Cooper, outside foreman.
Sugar Loaf Colliery.
Located in Ilazle township, on the estate of the Diamond Coal Company,
and operated by A. Pardee & Co., and consists of 2 slopes and 1 breaker.
Slope, No. 1.—Sunk on the south dip of the Mammoth or E vein at angle
of about 32° 36', and is 1,615 feet long; perpendicular depth, 870 feet;
elevation above tide at top of slope, 1,619 feet ; at bottom of the same, 749
feet. This slope is being re-timbered preparatory to being re-worked.
Sunk to basin.
Slope, No. 2.— Sunk on the same dip of the same vein. Length of slope,
1,188 feet; perpendicular depth, 659 feet; elevation above tide at top of
slope, 1,587 feet; at the bottom of the same, 928 feet. This slope has
been sunk 5 lifts. A tunnel on the east side has been droven, cutting the
big vein on the north dip. Connects with South Sugar Loaf, or No. 3