The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-11-22
the MINER

the MINER
We are pleased to learn from President
Siney that the miners of Schuylkill county
Pa, are rallying TO the support Of the sup
port of the National Association.
Mr.. JOHN POLLOCK, Of North Law
renee, Ohio, informs US that State Con
vention of the miners Of Ohio will be held
at Alliance on the third Wednesday in De-
cember, to frame State Constitution, and
also to officially connect themselves With
the National Association.
No LESS than lag, 900 acres Of coal lands
along the chesapeake and Ohio railroads
have changed hands the present season
Already seventeen coal mines have been
opened along the road, and seven iron
beds, while twelve iron furnaces are al
rtady or nearly in operation, with an an
nual capacity of l20, 900 tons Of Pig iron.
The coal mine field opened and now
being developed by the Iron Company OF
Utah, lies on Pace Greek near Phoebe, Iron
county, Utah. The coal is Of excellent
quality, and is easy Of access and extrae-
ton. The varieties are anthracite and
soft Ignite, Of fine quality, and, as FAR as
used, have been found to burn we'll
Mr.. ARCHIBALD, Secretary of the Ale
gheny County Miners Association, &C
knowledges the receipt Of $50 from the
miners Of the Mahoning Valley, for the
aid Of the miners on the Monongahela
river.
JACKSONVILLE Is the centre Of that inn
portant coal region of Ohio known as the
Hooking valley. 1t is village Of about
1900 inhabitants with several well patron
lied stores and vigorous young weekly
! newspaper The coal is cropping out Of
all the hills in its vicinity, varying in thick-
ness from five to eleven feet, which is
reached by drift openings. The charac-
ter Of the coal is very much similar to the
coal of the Mahoning valley, but some
what inferior for many uses, especially for
furnace purposes.
A GENERAL reduction VI 10 cents per
ton has been accepted by the miners
throughout the Mahoning valley.
A COAL shaft is being sunk in Hartford
Ind. 1t is the expectation to be taking
out coal in couple Of weeks The vein
is l9l feet below the surface and three
fset and five inches thick The coal is a
splendid quality Of bituminous. and in
hardness approaches block.
The coal operators of Clearteld county,
Pa, have resumed currency payment, af-
ter making one months pay With notes.
OPERATIONS have been suspended at a
member Of the coal shafts at Brookheld,
Ohio.
| PRoFIrs MADE BY CoLLIERY PRoPRIE-
TORS At time when the public mind is
more than ordinarily engaged III trying to
solve the problem Of the coal question and
its ultimate effects upon the trade Of the
country and the community at large, it
may not be uninteresting to notice the
profits which colliery proprietors and those
interested in raising coal are getting. To
lay hold of the information required is
doubtless anything but an easy task. Coal
owners, like other tradesmen, are natural
ly loath to ''show their cards" to the
world, and it is only by looking at them
through similar bodies who are bound to
give publicity to their affairs that this can
be arrived at At the annual meeting Of
the shareholders of Messrs. HI. Briggs,
Son, & Co., Limited. some striking facts
cropped up. The company, it may be
stated, owned capital Of L. 245, 644 at the
close of the last half year, and during the
year last past it had risen to Isl ,5l5 las.
in addition to paying q bonus varying in
amount to from 10 to 22t per cent. to the
workpeople. The company have paid l7A
per cent. to the shareholders, and accredit-
ed each shareholder with LIZ los per share
towards new allotment of $1,000 shares
of Lis each The sales Of coal last year
amounted to L336, 432 los Sd the sales Of
materials realized L2227 los lid the
company's wagons and vessels earned
l.. 1868 As I'D the cottage rents yielded
L. 219O los and the farm profits amounted
to Ll259 las 10d whilst the brickworks
at Loscoe made profit OF L.891 lbs 4d.
The amount paid by the company in wages
last year was L.123, 900, as against L. 80,
600 last year, or an increase Of 90 per
cent Although the wages paid had thus
increased, the output Of coal diminished
in the same period to the extent Of 1900
tons, q very significant fact, being some
thing like per cent on the output. Dur
ing the past year something like L. Ia, 900
had been raised and was paid as bonus to
the workmen, being at the rate Of 10 per
cent on the paid up capital Of the conf
pany, being the largest dividend hitherto.
One man was stated to have earned L 1877
during the year. and he was shareholder.
The bonus was distributed after the rate
of 10 per cent. upon the earnings Of share
holders employed underground, and 10 per
cent TO shareholders employed under
ground. During the year the directors
have purchased the Whitwell Main Col
liery for L 81, 900, and are about to devel-
op the Haight Moor and Silkstone seams.
They have given 100 tons to the poor Of
Bradford, and 100 tons to those residing
in Leeds, and grant of L.25O was Tade
to the Yorkshire College Of Science in aid
Of fund for founding a professorship of
mining engineering. Mining World
Huge as the profits have been at the
Whitewell Galleries, not few private
concerns can boast Of still greater profit.
We know Of those who their own small
bill of LAO killed dead to lift only q few
years since. They now speak of L.4O, 900
with an almost oontemptuous air. That is
got in the "moors smang the heather" as
good a. the Glasgow and other fine Goals.
A. M'DoNALD.
MINING EMTERPRIsE IN SOUTH STAT
YORKSHIRE McKenley, colliery own
or, Of West Bromwich, has Just commenced
working the Radnalield Colliery, at Old
bury, which had been flooded for many
years. By this undertaking, which has
cost many thousand pounds, seven or eight
collieries in tie district have been freed
from water, and viii be reopened shortly
The consequence will be that before long
the output of coal will be increased many
thousands Of tons in excess Of the present
supply.