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

15i ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
lows : Shipped to maiket, 40,000 tons ; sold to employees, 500 tons ; used
for mine purposes, 1,600 tons. Powder used, 1,002 kegs. Number of
days worked, ISO^.
Slopk, No. 2.—Sunk on the south dip of the Mammoth or E vein a distance
of 585 feet, at an angle of about 38^. Thickness of vein about 27
feet. This slope has been sunk to the basin ; the synclinal dips from west
to east. The east gangway has been driven 300 feet, and cannot be worked
any I'urther at present owing to the old workings of Beaver Meadow being
drowned, and there being no map of these old works to show M^iat pillar
has been left The west gangway has been driven 1,300 feet, with 25
breasts opened. There are 2 gangways on the west, 1 on each dip.
Ventilation.— The ventilation is produced by the exhaust from the pumping
engine. The air is good; 4,000 cubic feet at face of gangway; at
men emploj^ed, 56.
Si.opR, No. 4.—This is a nev\^ slope newly sunk on the Wharton or D
outlet, 9,000 cubic feet ;
vein. Length, 435 feet; vertical, 278 feet; angle, 40°. A new breaker
is now being built to prepare the coal from the slope and drift. The ventilation
in all the slopes is produced from the exliaust from the pump. There
are 22,125 feet of T iron track and 11,100 feet f strap or wooden track in
and about the mines, and 106 mine cars, 37 mules ; breaker capacity, 650
tons per day. They mined in No. 2, during 143 days, 55,460 tons of coal,
and used 755 kegs of powder. Men and boys employed : inside, 80 ; outside,
24 ; boys picking slate, 24. Number of days worked in all the slopes
during the year, 279^. These mines have been very fortunate ; not an ac-
•cident of any consequence occurred during the year, which speaks well for
its management.
Ilachinery consists of 3 hoisting engines of 150-horse power, 1 breaker
engine of 30-horse power, 3 pumping engines of IGO-horse power ; total
horse power, 240 ; total engines, 7, and are all in good condition.
John Wear, superintendent ; Frank Wear, mine boss; Michael Nortli,
outside foreman.
Jkaxesvills and Sprixg Mouxtaix Collieries.
These collieries are situated 2 miles south of Ilazleton, on the estate of
the Spring Mountain Coal (lompany, and operated by J. C. Haydon & Co.
Slope No. 1 .—Sunk on the south dip of the Mammoth or E vein, a distance
of 601 feet, at an angle of about 22°, elevation above mean tide at
top of slope feet, at bottom feet, perpendicular depth of slope 280
feet. The west gangway has been driven 3,600 feet, and the east gangway
3,200 feel, with several breasts. A tunnel 150 feet long has been driven,
cutting the Wharton or D vein at an angle of about 20° on the north dip.
The Mammoth vein is about 30 feet, and the Wharton about 9 feet thick,
.and the coal is of very good quality.
Slopk No. 4.—Sunk on the south dip of tlie Mammotli or E vein, at an
angle of about 31°, and is 566 feet long, perpendicular depth 283 feet, elevation
above tide at top of slope feet, at bottom feet. The east
gangway has been driven 1,407 feet, and ended in a fault, with 9 breasts
working. They are driving an air-hole in this gangwaj'' which will increase
the ventilation considerable. The east gangway, on the south dip, has
been driven 1,310 feet, with 18 breasts working ; and the east gangway on
the north dip 1,100 feet, with 2 breasts opening. This gangway has about
200 feet to go to connect with the old No 4 slope workings. A tunnel has
been started on the east side of the slope to cut the Wharton or D vein ou
the ttoiih dip, and another tunnel- is contemplated of being driven on the