The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-06-17
THE MINER .

1hG M1NEh
The following are the officers Of the
General Council" Of the Miners Be
nevolent and Protection Association of
Indiana-district No. /. The circuit of
the Council extends over a large dis
trict Of ten good healthy lodges.
President-John Quinlisk.
observation-disclosures Byrnes.
Tredsnrcr-James Pa rick.
Cor. Secretary-John Beunman.
Dull TrMEs.-Coal mining at Braid
wood is exceedingly dull at the present
time. Outside the mines Of the Eureka
shaft we don't think they are getting
more than two days a week on an aver
age. The likelihood is it will continue
so during the warm months Western
Miner.
WESTERN MINEs.-Two mining dis
asters occurred one day last week in the
Schuylkill region, caused by 6re-damp
explosions One in the Buckley Mines,
at Minersville, killed Edward Boyle
and Michael Comford, and seriously in
jured a boy the other, in the mines of
G. S. Repplier Il Co, at Locust Run,
resulted in the death of Benz min Low
ell, and severe injury of four or FIVE
others, some Of whom are net expected
to live.
Coal has been discovered near
Quincy, Illinois, on d. NJ. Jurrip's
farm. One vein near the surface is
thirty inches thick, and one vein one
hundred and fifteen feet deep and four
feet thick.
A SUPERIOR quality Of "black coal
is said to have been found within 10
miles of st. Louis.
THE anthracite Monitor of June 10,
SAYS: Our advices from the West are
cheering. The organization is spread
ing rapidly among the BltuminOus mi
ners, and dozens Of good men are
working earnestly to extend it still
farther. In Mercer County they talk
about asking an advance of ten cents
over present prices. Some of the ope-
rators seem willing to pay it, provided
all do.
The Anthracite Monitor of June 10th,
says: From a private letter received
from a member Of the Union in Kings
ton, we take tho following extract
"The one shaft in this District was stop
ped on the goth of July last, for want
Of a second opening. From then to the
10th of January we worked six weeks
and two days, and from that time until
now we have done nothing whatever
The company tell US that we shall see
the SHOWS Of next winter on the ground
before we shall get our demand, because
we dare to think 81 7S not enough tc
work in a hell with but one opening tC
it. Worse than al, by the time you gel
this, the Sheriff will doubtless have vi
all out on the worlds highway. We are
notified some days already. The works
belong to Waterman & Beaver" Thi'
friends, is a sample of the tyranny
from which our Association hopes t.
emaucipate the workingmen of these
coal fields.
FOREIGN.
MINERS FOR CHINA.-A number G
Durham and Northumberland miner
have been engaged to proceed 10 Chi
ma to open pits in the newly discovered
coaltields there.
A BOMBAY correspondent states tina
several more discoveries Of coal hav
been announced, and that the estimate,
Weld is so large that India may be re-
l. r 4Ia onal
fields Of the world.
Mr.. MCDONALD writes as follows t.
the Gdusegoan Sentinel: In every depart
mant of the iron and coal trades d thi
country, there Is increasing astivit
for consumption at home and abroaC
daily does the iron become more an
more used for every purpose that It ca
e be applied to. The orders for railwa
e iron to the United States, Brazils, India
7 Russia, and other countries promise
keep all active for many months t
come. A consequence Of this is, that a
though the great iron producing district
of the North of Eng and have increases
their make during the last twelv
. months, their stock of iron is reduce
7 to almost nothing. In Wales and Sta
fordshire there il a similar state c
things. Scotland does not fall benin
! in the race of increased industry. Fo
some time the shipments, both Of coz
and iron, have been very great, far el
! ceeding that of last year. A lance 9
the most casual observer will show hir
that great activity prevails In all th
2 iron making districts. The puddlln
furnaces are at work where men can b
6 got. New furnaces continue to be bull
A sequence to all this is, that iron whic
only short time ago sold at SIS pc
ton is now being sold at SIS Cd, an
even a shade more than that. Now, th
Coltness iron is selling at 65s per tor
Gartsherrie Gas Sd, and they can onl
give limited quantities even at that rate
Never have the irOnmasters' men ha
s a better opportunity Of having their va
ges raised to tile So rate per day ! !
Indeed were it not that they seem gOn
: under fairly, they ought to have ha
the wage long since. They will tax
the labor Of others when they get tn
; chance and pay nothing-for it,
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