Reports of the Inspectors of Mines of the anthracite and bituminous ...

Official Document, No. 12.
SIXTH ANTHEACITE DISTRICT.
(SCHUYLKILL COUNTY.)
Office of the Inspector of Mines,
Shenandoah, Pa., April 7, 1892.
Hon. Thomas J. Stewabt, Secretary of Internal Affairs
Sir: In compliance with the act of assembly approved May 20, 1891,
have the honor of herewith submitting- to you my seventh annual report
as Inspector of mines of the Sixth anthracite district for the year 1891.
The production during- the year is 6,419,320 tons of coal, an increase
of 182,766 tons as compared with the year 1890. Of the total produc-
tion for the year
—
The Philadelphia and Reading- Coal and Iron Company pro-
:
Tons.
duced, 3,899,765
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company produced, 499, 611
The Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company produced, . . 434, 825
Leutz, Lilly & Co. produced, 341, 320
Coxe Brothers produced, 19, 486
Individual operations produced, 1, 224, 293
Total, 6,419,320
Accompanying this report are the usual tables which show on table
No. 1 four deaths from explosions of fire-damp, three from explosions of
blasting- material and six from premature explosions. Referring to
deaths resulting from these three causes, we remark that they should be
as the light of other days, for there is no g-ood reason now why we
should have mine explosions in the Sixth district.
As to the second cause, which resulted in the death of three men, they
lost their lives by violating rule twenty-eight, page forty -three, of the
mine law.
The third cause, premature explosions, resulting in the death of six
persons, should rather be reported that they lost their lives from an
unwarranted recklessness in approaching- a daug-er that they themselves
had constructed.
William Stein,
Mine Inspector.
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