The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-12-27

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The La sale Press, in referring to the
future prospects Of that city as manu-
featuring centre, says:
We have 1900 tons per acre in the sec
ond and third strata, and, as the latter is
about 800 feet below the surface, and as
there are two other strata-making four al
together-before reaching the 800 feet, it
is presumable, nay, it is believed by ex-
perts that there are many others below the
third.
It is not much more difficult nor much
more costly to mine 600 feet than 800 feet.
Some Of the Newcastle mines are 100
feet deep. Now the quality Of our coal is
settled and understood. The second and
third veins are hard, and bright and dense,
and for domestic purposes there is no coal
in the west that is better. The second vein,
leaving more ashes than the first, is not
as desirable for domestic purposes, but is
nearly equally effective in heating, and for
making steam is considered superior The
of most Of the coal Of Illinois and Iowa,
but the stratum being thin and the coal i'm
purer than the second and third, it is not
worked.
The third vein is Of the character Of the
famous Newcastle, England, coal, being Of
the baking or coking kind, and for many
purposes gives out so intense a heat under
blast or a superior draft that it melts
upon the furnace bars and causes obstruc-
tons The coking obviates this, and while
it reduces the weight 10 to 90 per cent,
the coke is 20 per cent. more valuable.
Thus, then, if the quantity Of orr coal
has no known limit, manufactures which
always follow its development, can have no
known limit.
Coal TONNAGE FOR 1873. The follow
ing is al official statement Of the coal tom
mage for the fiscal year 1873 of the Read
ing Railroad Company Total shipments
of anthracite paying freight, $3.50, l49 (;
bituminous received at Harrisburg. 80,
267 giving a total paying freight Of s, 100
4l6 tons. Anthracite consumed by COM
pany, 343, $50 tons bituminous, Is, 08S
tons. Total quantity transported in
1873, q, $40. 154 tons, against 8, lS5. 434
tons in 1872, giving an increase III 1873 Of
36l 100 tons. Of the above quantity Of
anthracite 4O7 ,26l tons were derived from
the Lehigh and Wyoming regions, against
81 l, 146 tons in 1872, an increase Of Sc, 1IJ
tons in 1873. There were $40, 267 tons OF
bituminous coal received at Harrisburg,
against 455, 835 tons in 1872, decrease OF
142, 568 in 1873 The $3.50, 149 tons OF
coal we're sent as follows Main line and
Lebanon Valley, 4.137, 637 per canal,
735, 047 west over Northern Central, Sol
1888 south and west from Pingrove, 10Y
500 consumed on laterals, 1870, III CIV
ing a. aggregate on anthracite tonnage of
8, $50, 40 tons and bituminous $40, 267
tons, making total paying freight Of 6,
l9O, 4l6 tons consumed by company, S56,
1913 tons, and total transportation in 1873,
Of 6, 546, 554 tons. While the coal ton-
mage shows an increase Of only 36l, 120
tons over last year, the advanced tolls and
transportation for the year give large in
crease in the revenue Of the company for
1873 over 1872
NEWCASTLE CoLLIERs.-The coal owners
Of Newcastle have decided MOTTO accede to
the renewed application Of the miners Of
that district for an advance Of 20 per cent
in their wages.
TAE STRIKE or SOUTH YORKSHIRE MIN
Considerable excitement was created
in Barnsley, on Saturday, ON it becoming
known that q hummer Of police had been
telegraphed for to the Monk Breton Col
hery, few miles from the town, where
the miners struck work on Thursday The
whole of the available force were at once
despatched in q large bus, and on reach
ing the colliery where the men we're about
to be paid they were received with loud
cheers, and the miners at once fraternized
With the police. Many Of the men de-
clared that the masters had sent for the
police with view Of creating a disturb
ance The men held a meeting the same
day at their lodge near the colliery, when
a resolution was passed unanimously not to
60 in until their grievances were settled,
whether the union supported them or not
The men complained that the decision of
the arbitration Of 1872 has never been car
ried out. The rails were to be laid up to
the face of the coal by the masters, which is
not done. They were to receive 3Sd per
cart for removing dirt, which is put on one
side, and they do not receive anything for
it. The masters agreed to fetch the coal
away from the face, which they have never
done. These and other grounds are al
legged as the cause of the strike
The wages of coal miners in Great Brit
ian, averaged in 1871, e1,22 per day at
the present time they receive - per day.
In 1871, the mine-Owners received profit
of fourteen cents per ton they now re-
ceive profit of eighty-seven cents per ton.
Yet the coal-miner is responsible for the
entire increased cost Of coal in that coun-
try.