Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-12-02


ting park this winter. ---s
Iowa cast mere votes than Wisconsin
in the recent election election.
There are. thousands. of acres Of corn
ye. ia The field in this State.
Harrison county has .. fnd crop Of snow
alrssdy, aud tlns sieghius likewise.
Council Bluffs aas made and laid g.
coo, coo brick during the past season.
A citizen 81 Newton, named Mills, cut
his throat, on Wednesday last on account
of family troubles.
The eorpsrats debt Of Keskuk amounts
10 &l25 for every living srul therein.
Seventy Ave thousand asrss Of raw
prairie turned over In Boone county this
yssr.
~ lows will have three lines Of railroad
straight across frea Mississippi to Missouri
rivers BY next June.
-Dss Msinss market: Qaai!s, 81 90 per
dozen; Wild ducks and prairie chickens,
81 80 PER dozen.
The Dallas county Grzetts says .. d.
smallsy ofthat county has hog which
measures i've feet six inches along the back
bone, and girts o feet l ] inches.
The Dss Moines Register says The
Muscatine Courier notices center table.
the property of Suel Foster, Esq. Of that
city, which is made entirely out Of Iowa
materials. What's the use Of sending out
of the State for fancy furniture hereafter :
1.-THE msrbls top 10 from the La Grands
marble quarriss Of Marshall county. The
wooden part Of the table, which he marble
top 10 sstin, 10 Of white walnut Or buttsrnut
the growth Of this neighborhood-and
the legs Of the table are Of Usage Ofanzs,
ais, the growth Of this nsighborhosd.
The Wintersst Nadisssids says that
several persons thsrsabou's have been pre-
smpting lands in Busoa Vista eosnty sisng
! the d. 4 s. c. Railroad line in the vicinity
OF Storm Lake. beautiful body Of water
Gvo miles long, three miles wide, and said
to abound with fsh. They report to u
that thss have never seen inner country.
90 far ~ land is concerned, anywhere.
The only drawback to the country 10 the
scarcit y Of timber.
To prs-empt inside tho railroad limits, it
costs $3.50 per acre. For land outside the
railroad limits. elk miles from the line OF
che road, il costs $1.25 per acre. But If .
person desires to occupy the land for .
homestead, so acres can be obtained inside
The railroad limits, or 1G0 outside, for the
registry fec, about fifteen dollars, which 10
all that is required Of tho actual settler,
prosidsd he occupies the land for fve years,
and then he or she, - the case may be, will
obtain deed from the Government for the
land"
-Moingona is new tswn in Central
Boone, on tho Des Moines river and North
western ralrond, and has fine coal minss.
A Dss Meines correspondent has been
down into this clrbonifereus domain full
80 feet through a shaft operated by q 20
horse power engine. Ons hundred miners
were at work an as many more wanted .
mining il done here by what is known
among miners ~ tho "long walr' method.
BY this system NIL the coal in the voin 10
taken out rs the miners proceed. Az fast
as the coal 10 mined tho space from which
i is taken is filled with "gob," or waste
earth, clay or stone, behind the workmen
and up to within few feet OF the "face,
or front wall Of unminsd coal This alhne
mp process is continued as tho miners pro-
coed. In case Of deficiency OF 'gob,
"cogs" and props" are used. BY ths
less than cord wood. or timbers cross piled
to support the weight Of the earth above.
This method Of mining is preferred for rev.
sral reasons. One advantage Is, that all
the oo, is taken out, except what is neces.
sary - wallis to support the "main en,ries,
or roads leading through the mine, Of which
there is in this, about one mile By the
common method Of mining in many Of the
Iowa coal banks, the coal which is left as
wallis 10 "chambsis or rooms as they
are called, is lost. Another advantage OF
the "long wall' msthoi. is that the coal
Is e,sily disconnected in heavy masses hy
the more pressure Of the earth above.
saw in this mine single detached masses
or blocks Of coal. Of from four to six
tens weight. This greatly facilitates min
ing operations. Sometimes, when the pres
sure fails to bring down the coal, it is nsc>
ssssry 10 resort to blssting.
| Another shaft, Sunk to the depth Of six.
ty-dvs feet, and about eighty rods distant
from the one already mentioned, 10 also
used 10 working ,his mine. The two shafts
are connected BY an ENTRY" leading from
one to the other. The last named is opsr.
ated at present BY horse power. and in this
part Of the mine I've mules are employed
for the purpose Of hauling the coal to the
foot the shalt. This is done in cars ovsl
wooden railways running from every part
Of the mine.
Tho capacity Of these shafts. With thu
present means Of raising the coal, and with
. full supply Of miners. would be about 250
tons per day. equal to rs car loads. When
the coal 10 hoisted to the platform ut the tor
Of the shaft,it is there weighed and dump
cd" into the car on the sidetraek. When the
ear 10 loaded, il 10 again weighed on III,
"track scale" Of the railroad company.
The Msingoaa Coal Company" com
asncsd operations about two years ago, on
. comparatively small scale. Up TO sh,
present time they have shipped over 4 600
cars Of coal, being over 10000 tons. Fol
cenvsnisnce in shipping, they have bull,
about three miles Of side track. John
Blair, 81 Blairstewn, N. j., 10 President o
the company, and owns the principal inter
est. Az the company owns several thou
sand acres Of coal lands here, and have il
two PEARS worked an area Of about hre
sores. it will DO seen that it must be som,
time before their supply 10 exhausted.
In conneetiou With this auhiect thu far.