The workingman's advocate., 1872-10-19
the MINER.

The last issue of the Anthrdcite Mnlitor,
under the caption Of "What it costs to
mine Coal, reports list Of % miners who
have been killed or wounded in six DAYS
in the anthracite regions. Certainly enough
for one week.
ANOTHER fearful explosion took place at
the Pine Ridge shaft on Sunday afternoon,
but fortunately no persons were at work
in the mines that day to be injured. The
shock was felt for long distance and the
ground shook as if effected by an earth
quake. .-Wakes Barre Daiiy.
THE last issue Of the Anthrcite M. Il
ter says
1t is proposed to move the Mointor to
PottsSille. We believe the proposition 4
good one. Outside Of the association pat
rOnage, which We would be as certain Of
receiving III Pottsville as in Tamaqua
there is a deal of job work and advertising
III the first named town that We cannot
secure while the paper is located here We
hope therefore that the Board of Directors
will come to the next meeting prepared t.
vote upon the proposition
Foreign,
The miners u South Wales have IL
manded an increase of wages the coal
masters, on the contrary, insist uI-..c>a
decrease Of the wages already being A.id.
and have closed their IfrAles until the
men aecede 10 their terms
The Bombay Nhad4A) Gd.ett, states that
the causes Shi9 are sending up the prices
Of coal u Nslch fabpkRv rates al home.
will prove good thing for India, The
Nizams coal helds, which have been work
"a rather slugishly Of late should be
brought into activity, and ~ also should
other fields. The Peninsular and Oriental
Company have made an experimental pur-
chase Of 600 tons of country coal FOR trial
III their ships.
MAcHIEKY FOR Cutting COAL.-Ma-
chinery for cutting coal has lately been in
trOduced into the British mines Judging
from the accounts gwen of the operations
of these machines, they would he invalua-
bic in the United States. One great
benefit derived from these machines is the
large percentage Of waste they save. When
coal is drilled by hand and blasted out
the waste Is very great it is claimed,
often exceeding twenty-five por cent.
With coal cutting machinery it has been
found that the percentage Of waste can be
reduced. In the report of the trials of
the Miller a. Anderson machines At Coat
bridge, Scotland, it is claimed that the
waste did not exceed ten per cent, and
that one machine did the work Of thirty
men at a cost per day but little greater
than the wages Of one man in the United
States. Our immense beds Of coal, but
with high cost Of mining, are the most
suitable fields for the working Of such
machines With them we could defy
competition and break coal corners n
whenever necessary.
Goals TO NEWCASTLE French are
about to astonish the English by the fulfil
aent of that supposed proverblal absurd
ity-sending Goals 10 Newcastle. Already,
the cable tells US, 250, 900 tons Of French
have been delivered in England, and this il
but the beginning Of a commerce hitherto
unknown in England, and which English
pride considered impossible The English
coal supplies were, until few years, sup
posed to be 80 abundant as to render the
fuel questions, but latterly those busy fell
lows, the geologists, in combination with
the political ec4Aomists, have been doing
their beat to unsettle the comfortable Brit
ish ideas upon the coal question. Indeed,
the price Of Goals have lately gone up SO
much, and the fears Of scarcity have SO
greatly increased, that it has been conAid-
cred necessary to encourage the bringing
in Of foreign coal, and these importations
from France are the beginning. 1t cannot
be very long before the appeal will be
made by the English to United States for
coal supplies The bituminous Goals are
likely to be the FIRST called for, but in q
short thie the Superior advantages Of an
thrscite must make themselves known, and
- foreign coal trade will be added to the
price currents as a fresh means Of balancing
the account with Europe, which has hither-
to been strengly against US in consequence
of over importatiOns-
wnHAW-MINRRS' MEETING.
On Monday evening, in the Theatre, a
meeting took place for the purpose Of TAX
ing steps to raise subscriptions in the dis
trict for testimonial TO Mr.. A. M'DonAld,
a. well a. to protest against the widespread
impression that il was the miners who were
the cause Of the high price Of Goals. For
the former purpose q committee and treas
urer wege appointed respecting the latter
topic the meeting unanimously laid the
blame ON the coal-masters. A rise of
shilling q day, voluntarily offered by the
WAS indiUnantlv refused i'm