The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-01-18
MINERS cetuMM.

THE Mclean county coal company are now
raising from ten to fifteen tons Of coal Per
day.
4 BID Of coal seven feet thick aud 240 feet
beneath the surface, has been discovered
near Lincoln, I'll
Tus Anthracite coal production from all
the several regions this year will exceed that
Of last wear bv some $4,000 tons, and will
aggregate abost IL, Isl, 900 tens. The canals
are row closed, and the tonnage for the re-
maiader of the year will be exclusively bv
rail
DANcv-.s OF Coal MINEs.-That the dam
gers Of coal mines are not confined to case
Gus exhalalions is proved by sad accident
which occurred recently in the workings OF
Cardenden, Scotland. The golfers were at
work In ignorance of the fact that only thin
wall of coal separated then fro~' al old
waste flied ith wa, r. One a. he men
pierced this wall 18th his pick, and in mo-
ment the flood rushed in. Eight men were
in the pit at the time, and four met instant
death The Others working in higher level
were rescued LefoIe the water reached them.
NJ SmoNKN has published some curious
stat sizes relative to the production Of coal.
lie shows that in England the quantity OF
Goa produced in 1859 was 50,000,000 tons,
and in 1864 93,O00,000; that in Belgium
$4,000 tous were produced in lo45, II
100000 in 1860, and 10000, 900 in 1863 I;
and that in France the quantity produced in
lS43 was 3,T00,00 tons, 40 1853 10000
tons, and ia 1865 II ,000,000.a From these
and other facts, NJ. Simonen concludes that
in England, Belgium and France, the amount
4
years, in Prussia every ten years, and in the
United State every tive yefTs.
How Coal Is OBTAINED IN JAPAN :
Mr.. Lacock, in a recent letter to the Brit
ish Foreign Office. says:
had an opportunity while there, Of WIS.,
itiug the works-if indeed, they deserve the
name which they have undertaken for pro-
curing the coal. Here and there, wherever
the coal or shsle which lay over il, had been
seen cropping out from the hills side, a
horizontal passage had been run IN, never
more than twenty Eve feet, aud often only
ten or twelve feet in length. In some OF
these burrows, two or three men, crouched
TO the ground, were at work, pick ing away
with pointed hammers, and sorting each
little piece Of coal with their hand, Pri-
or - putting it into one heap or another, 40
cording to quality. A few coolies, in tie
last stage out one Of nudity, collect the coal
at tie mouths OF these burrows, and carry
it 10 where the read admits of its oeing
transferred to the backs of hullocks, or to
three-wh aeled carts holding about half tun
each, and 'rawn by one beast. In this way
it is brough. 70 the HIogo market. great
potion Of it IS Of q very inferior quality.
Here and there, however, good specimens OF
a Kind Of anthracite are brought out from
the hills SIDE. The seam which has been
discovered is about two feet thick, and runs
Gown toward the plain at an angle Of about
fifteen degrees, or nesrly that Of the bills
themselves. There is, therefore, good reas-
on for believing that by borinG in the plain
below, the same, if not better seam might
be discovered.
The japanese government are not inSen-
sible TO the advantages to be derived frou a
more scientific working Of he coal Of Hiogo,
and it is not impossible we may soon see a
regular coal mine opened, worked by Euro
pean machinery.
From the Philadelphia Press.
THE Coal REoIoNs OF WYOMING AND LACK
AwANA.-It is perhaps, fact that the people
evca of Pennsylvania generally are not &C
quaiDied with the Lis;ory of great coal
anna, tnei