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

42 ANNUAL REPCET OF THE
Recapitulatiox.
Sixty-four working collieries iu the district, 3 shafts, 55 slopes, 23 tunnels,
55 drifts, 151 eugines=;r2,965-horse power ; 592 boilers, 14 pole and
T bull pumps, 36 steam fans, 1 furnaces ; 7,289 men and 2,296 boys=9,585
hands employed. 186 visits, making 5,168 miles traveled. 38 fatal and
111 non-fatal accidents occurred during the year, leaving 13 widows and
30 orphans. 2,848,726 tons of coal had been shipped, 542,000 tons had
been consumed in the district, making 3,388,726 tons mined ; making one
fatal accident to each 89,177 tons, and one non-fatal accident to each 252
persons employed in the district.
Maps of Collieries for 1875.
A list of maps of coal mines and collieries furnished by land owners,
agents and superintendents for use of inspectors of coal mines and col-
lieries of their respective districts, being prepared from actual surveys in
compliance with tlie act of Assembly of March 5, 1870, and are now of
record in this office.
Number and Name
OF Colliery.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
.
Pottsmlle District Maps.
Location of Colliery.
Mount Laffee .
Beechwood
Norwegian
....do
Oak Hiil
Mine Hill Gap.
Duncan
Duncaiiville. .
Kear
Mine Hill Gap.
West Pine Knot ....do
East Pine Knot .... do
Tliomastou
i Thomaston
Hecksclier Keckscherville . .
i
i
j
I
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12.
13.
14.
15.
Kicliardson
Oak Dale
Glendower
Tayiorville
iSTonteray
Diamond
Glen Carbon
do
do
do
Monteray
Wolf Creek
1(5. Kear, No. 2 .do
17. Forestville Forestville
18. Diamond !. . . .do
19. Pha?nix, Nos. 1, 2. . Phoenix Park
20. Phipnix, No. 3 do
21. Eagle St. Clair
22. Hickory Shaft Wadesvilie
23. Manchester do
24. Monitor do
25. Feeder Dam Port Carbon
26. Raveusdale Port Carbon, East
27.
28.
29.
30.
Pine Forest
Rainbow Sliaft
Spruce Forest
New Castle . . .
St. Clair, East
St. Clair
do
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
i2.
; New Castle
Swift Creek. . .
New Kirk
Wabash
Tuscarora
do
Buckville
Reevesdale
Tamaqua Shaft
Alaska
Greenwood
Bull Run
Reevesdale
Tamaqua
....do
Tamaqua, East . .
Coaldale
CommeAsial....
ledger Vein
Silver Creek...
.
. .
....do
Coaldale
New Philadelphia.
Silver Creek
. . .do
Remarks.
1 slope, active.
1 slope, idle.
1 slope, idle.
1 slope, idle.
3 slopes, activ'e.
1 slope, active.
1 slope, active.
1 slope, 1 shaft, active.
1 slope, active.
1 slope, active.
1 .shaft, active.
1 slope, active.
1 slope, idle.
1 slope, abandoned.
2 slopes, abandoned.
1 slope, abandoned.
1 slope, 1 drift, active.
1 slope, active.
2 slopes, one idle, one active.
1 slope, idle.
2 slopes, active.
1 .shaft, active.
2 slopes, idle.
1 slope, active.
1 slope, idle.
1 slope, idle.
1 shaft, active.
1 shaft, idle.
1 slope, idle.
2 slopes, abandoned.
1 slope, abandoned.
1 slope, active.
1 slope, abandoned.
1 slope, abandoned.
1 shaft, 1 drift, abandoned.
2 drifts, abandoned.
2 slopes, one idle, one active.
1 drift.
2 slopes, active.
3 slopes, idle.
1 slope, active.
"1 slope, idle.