The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-03-21

AT the close OF last years business we stated
that if Congress, then in session, would remodel
the tariff in the interests of domestic industry,
and adjust our national finances, the market
would take about one million tons increase be-
tween the coal regions and the seaboard. They
did not settle either of these questions, and the
increase was 763, 230 tons.
Mine Inspection.
Mr.. John Eltringham, The Mine Inspector ap-
pointed by Governor Geary, under the act for
the safety of the lives of the miners, passed by
the Legislature last April, entered on his duties
on the first of May, and has sent his report to
the Governor for the period extending from that
time up to January, 1870.
We have been permitted to examine some por-
tions of the report which are of public interest,
and have CLEANED the following statistics from
the same:-
Whole number of colleries examined in
Schuylkill county since May l, AL
This embraces all the collieries in this county
mining and shipping coal to market. There are
about twenty-five small collieries mining coal
for the supply of the different towns in the coal
| regions not embraced in the report
The number OF drifts are. re.....................l3
Number OF slopes
A drift is run in horizontal above the water
| level. slope is sunk on the inclination of the
vein below the water level, the pitch ranging
from 10 to so degrees A shaft is sunk perpen-
dicularly through the overlying strata to the
| vein desired to be worked
The deepest slope below the water level is
| 1850 feet. This is the Duncan Colliery, which
was abandoned at the close of the year, with
eight feet of the finest red ash coal produced i'm
| the fregion at the bottom of the slope. The
next deepest is 1443 feet, another 900 and
| another 972 feet. The other slopes are all of
lesser depths.
The deepest shafts are the Vaudeville 665
feet; the st. Clair shaft, $40; and the others are
| of the following depths:-600, 1884, $50, four of
| 800 each, 257, $50, 140 and 124.
In the ventilation of the collieries below water
| level there are used:-
FURNACES 80
90
| In ten collieres where the furnaces are used
| there is but one outlet for the men; but these
| colieries are not extensive, and some are new
| ones, which do not require much ventilation.
The number OF men and boys employed at the
al conlerles were ....'..'.''''..... 22l9I
Number OF mules used. ed.......,.............. 1925
NUMBER OF drllt cars. 6206
Number OF steam engines at mines. .......... 400
Aggregate horse power. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 25,22l
| The number of persons killed in the l4l col
| lieries in Schuylkill county, from May 1, 1862
| 10 Jan. 1, 1870, were 81 in 38 colleries. The
| number of injured were 81, in Al collieries
Taking the quantity of coal mined after the first
| of May, it would give one person killed in
| Schuylkill county for every 81, 600 tons mined;
/ and one person Injured for about every AZ, 400
| tons mined. At least two-thirds of the deaths
are caused by falls of coal and slate, and large
proportion of those injured arises from the
same causes. But few deaths, comparatively
| speaking, have occurred in Schuylkill county
| from explosions, which are caused by bad ven
| tilation in mines.