The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-03-28
PITTSBURGH MINING NEWS.
PAN HANDLE.

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TAYLOR & Co., at Midway. are working
moderately, as is also Walnut Hill mines
Negley, at Mansfield, is now paying eighty
cents per ton.
Work is very slack on this road, and will
continue so until revival Of western
trade, which is looked for IS spring ad-
vances.
The mines in Saw Mill Run, five in
number, have been idle for some time.
The tunnel through Coal Hill was cora-
pleted last Monday, which nov brings the
mills OF Temperancevile in closer pro1im-
ty To these mines.
The Little Pan Handle pit started with
eighty men last Monday, and is now sup
plying the mills through this tunnel.
HoSoSGAHELA RIVER MINES.
The Castle Shannon mines, opposite
Pittsburgh, are running to their fullest
capacity. These works supply many Of
the mills and works of the city, it being
50 conveniently located that it can success
fully compete with mines at further dis
lance from the city. Over four hundred
men are employed in and about the works.
Mining is four cents per bushel.
JONES & LAUGHLINs have 300 miners,
and it keeps them picking to keep the mill
going.
HAYS d BRO, and FISHER a Co, at
Beck's Run, are rushing things generally.
Had these men acquiesced Ill the attempt
made few months since to force reduc-
ton in mining from four to three and a
half cents per bushel, the strike would
have continued indefinite.
GREEN SPRING works, opposite Brad
dock Fields, are pulling pillars about fifty
men are engaged at these works. If Mr.
Redman, the senior partner, can get the
adjoining coal, which is valued at s4O0 per
acre $500 being asked), and which is two
miles off the river, he will continue the
workings The coal in this locality is
about one hundred feet above high water
mark, and is four feet SIX inches thick
One Of the steepest inclines on the river is
at these works.
HABkRNAN & Co. wants all the coal
eighty miners can produce.
KEELING & Co. are also running full
at both roads, producing p, 900 bushels
KENNY q Sons works, which adjoins
this, is supplied with two inclines, one
lowering the cars from the plymouth to
the brow of the hill the other serves to
convey them to the boat, where it is low
cred and then deposited
NOTWITHSTANDING the efforts Of the Coal
Exchanges and the nominal price of coal
in the lower markets, which stimulates
their action in attempting to reduce the
wages of labor in the production and
shipping of coal, the output is as large
now as at any time before, while the
prospects are such as warrants us in pre-
dieting a steady continuance, unless the
controlling power amongthe shippers should
unite and bear the market The last effort
in this direction proved failure for the
want Of unity among the operators. The
few refusing to comply with the mandates
Of the Coal Exchange were sufficient to con-
fuse the majority, and the attempt was
abandoned. Spring time is now upon us,
and with it comes the encouraging news
from all over the country of the resumption
Of industries which have been dormant
since last falls panic.
Should this much talked of reduction DO
attempted, it would have the effect of re-
ducing the number of miners in this val
ley, and would be strenuously resisted by
the old residents who have shared their
work with their fellow-craft from all parts
Of the country.