Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1859-08-04
PHILADELPHIA CoAL MARKET.


PHILADELPHIA CoAL MARKET
Per Ton.
schuylkill, Red Ash, by cargo So 3o@$3 40
White Ash, 8 250 8 So
by retail, 1863 ......
Lehsh, by the cargo, lump, $50 8 rs
{. prepared, Coo 8 IS
by retail, 20 90
NEW YORK Coal MARKET. The demand
is active for Domestic coal, and prices are
without change: the stock is ample. We
quote by the cargo at IS 20 a. 81 20, and
from yard at S;4 "a "a so. Foreign is in
moderate request sales of $50 tons Liverpool
Camel at So 25 a. So 80 per ton, delivered
and $50 tons Sydney at 81 40 cash.
BosToN Coal MARKET.-Englsh Canuel
Coal remains quite steady, with sales at $l3
r chald. cash. Pictou and Sydney remain
the same. Several cargoes have been sold at
S4 25 a. 4 so Is ton, cash. In Anthracite
steady sales at So "a s so {. ton.
MINING EXTRAORDINARILY That fortune
sometimes favors the bold is strikingy exem-
plifed in the following instance. A father
and son named Morcum, and another man.
namedMitchell, both poor and industrious men
have been working as tributemen in whea
Basset, but with very Indifferent success fol
some time Last week, however, some old
ground, hitherto uuprofitablc, had to be re-
opened, but the agents, who have always been
considered careful men and faithful to the
interest of the adventures, refused TO advance
the tribute, and the men, after little grunb-
ling, took the PITCH went to work, and after
working ashort time, without any kiLd of pre-
vious indication, they cuta fine branch of SOL
id copper which in four days, gave them some
thing lke1005 per man. 1t was but bunch
and would seem almost like q freak Of fortune,
as a reward for perseverance. Hest Bait0n,
Coal IN ATRIcA.-Att the G Biological Soce-
ty at London, Mr. Richard Thornton read a
paper "On the Coal found by DR.. Livingston,
at Tcte, on the Zambesi. The coal is free
burning, showing no tendency to tue cake,
containing very little Of either sulphur or
iron, large proportion of ash, but only lit
tie Of gaseous matter. The result of the trial
made in the steam launchl of this coal and
its appearances favor, in the authors opinion ,
the idea that the coal when taken from q
deeper digging THAT which DIR. Livingston
had sent was collected at the surface Of the
ground), will probably contain less ash and a
little more gaseous matter.
The CnEaAw AND CoALFIELps RAILROAD,
n. C.-lhere was a meeting Of the board of
the Chcraw and Coalields Railroad Compa-
ny held at Carthage, n. c., on Thursday eve
ming, the Sd ult. We mention among its
proceedings, resolution instructing the
President to enter into negotiations with some
competent engineer for a preliminary survey
Of the route, at as curly a day as possible. The
usual business arrangements, &C., We're made.
From the spirit manifested, we fee! that we
can assure the friends of the enterprise that
no effort OH the part Of the Board will be
wanted TO push the work forward-that all
that can be done will be done by them.--
Cherac IS. C.l Gazette
WEST AMwELL IRoN WoRKs-Thesc
Works, built by Messrs Mccullough & Co.,
but now owned by Il. A. Harvey, have with
ed and enlarged. They are Oh Big Elk creek
two and halfmi!es north Of Elkton. The
dam tthe largest in the county,l covers Il a.
crcs, lie tnmble Of which is 263 feet The
driving wheel shaft weighs 40, 900 pounds.-
There arc four furnaces now finished in the
mill, one OF which, is on an improved English
plan, in which bituminous coal is used in the
Of sheet Iron. This mill con-
sumes six or eight tons OF coal day, cn-
ploys about thirty men, and is kept running
day and night. Sheet iron, principally for
roofing, is manufactured, and sold to different
The dwellings, ofwhich there are
wththe mill are surrounded with trees
lately planted, and will in few years make
this one of the prettcst mills in the State
Mr.. Geo. Harlan, the gcntlemanly foreman,
keeps the mill in the best Of order, and will
take pleasure in showing the different parts
Of the mill to those who may visit it. The
we'll know reputation Of Mr.. Harvey, the pre-
prietor of the mill, among business men as a
young man of the best business qualifications
and of untiring energy, assures him the great
est success in this busness.-CecH Wing.
BIG Coal TRAINS ON THE PHILADELPHIA
AND READING RAnRoAD.-By a recent reg
ulaton of the Reading Company, each coal
train numbers from 112 to l20 loaded cars,
averaging five tons each, making an aggregate
Of nearly 600 tons per train, and drawn by a
single locomotive. Some idea of the power
Of these ''iron horses, may be derived from the
fact that few days since one of the side cyl
inders of locomotive attached to a coal train
gave out few miles below Reading, but the
the engineer managed to reach PhGnixville
with one cylinder, drawing the entire load,
without reducing the speed in the least. The
facility with which these immense coal trains
are transported on the Reading Railroad is
owning mainly to the continuous down grade
from PottsviIle to Richmond wharves, which
IS so admirably adapted to the carrying Of
heavy freights, and in which respect it has
The decided advantage over every other rail-
road in the United States.-Reading Gazette,
July 90.
Rf5-A visit to the iron ore diggings ofCeo.
?. Whitaker on Iron Hill. says corresq ond
mt, is well worth the time that any OF our
county readers would occupy in going. The
IRE is raised and washed by steam power
The diggings are drained by tunnel 1000
eet long, and about feet wide, feet high.
he ore is taken by RAILROAD to Mr.. Whitakers
urnice at Principle, and there manufactured
nto different kinds of iron.--Cecz Whig
A coal shaft at Wesley City, Illinois, sunk
trough quicksand, recently caved in. Bury
ne one of the workmen. The plaukinp. |
however, prevented his being smothered, and !
.fter twenty-five hours digging the man was
cached; and rescued unhurt. During his
Incarceration he fell asleep and slept for sew
,ral hours.
Prevention Of Mining Disasters.--In the
scottish mines new system of prevention is
n contemplation, including, as regards the
PRESENT works, the establishment of "rooms
N