Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1875-04-24
Now, Mr. Editor, desire to use this OPP

IL 1lldlllltI lhdt uillii1 VIC past CIHIlhtth
years every acre of coal property belonging
tc the Georges Creek Coal and Iron Com-
pany, and mined under the supervision of
John Douglas, Of Homecoming, has been
worked b. the square or pancl' grerise2y in
the H,aatati' doScri2ad in the above quotation.
The entire workings form 4 series Ofsquares,
each one of which contains twenty -five
rooms, 50 designed that the pillars may be
and arc drawn out when the rooms reach
the point Of destination and the crush or
creep that must inevitably follow the re
muval of pillars, has iii every solitary in
stance been strictly confined to the single
division of the mine where the pillars were
being removed. At least q dozen of these
crashes or crecps have occurred under the
writer's immediate notice, ana he solcmnly
asserts that even The worst of them never
interrupted or interfcred with the business
for Il single hour, and that, too, at time
when the daily shipments of coal from Il
single mine amounted TO between eight and
nine hundred tolls.
In the mine opened in the spring of 1872
by the same Company and under the same
supervision, pillars were being removed
within eight months after the first ton Of
coal was shipped from the mine, and this
branch of the work was then done, and IS
now being done with Il measure of success
that The Inspector in Ohio never even
,lr.n1t.I al Tho nt iHarnnpInnL.
these m,n,s is TO haze as many miners as
possible engaged in removing the pillars
and letting the works crush in, as are en-
ploycd in opening them up In other
wolds, the work in these mines is not deem
Cd i'll a satisfactory condition by their SUI
pcrintcndcnt if they do not yield for every
consecutive days shipments as much coal
and of as good quality from the pillars as is
taken from the rooms.
The writer further desires to state that
from personal examination he has ascer-
tanned that at The present time all other
mines in the Georges Creek Valley from
Homecoming to Piedmont, are worked in
the same manner, and, unless where the
conformation OF the property Will not per
NIT of it, the same conditions obtain i'll all
of them.
The writer has not had opportunities OF
visiting and examining the mines that are
situated between Frostburg and LonaCon-
tlcmcn who manage them enables him to
assert without amy hesitation that their
mines are as ably and intclligcntly conduct
cd as any in the region.
Did it never occur to the very modest
and unassuming Inspector that there are
gentlemen here conducting mining opera
tons whose intelligence will compare very
tayoraby with his own, and whose oppor-
tuntics for acquiring the most practical
knowledge and varied experience has been
infinitely better and greater than his
Has he actually rgottcn since he went TO
Ohio a few gentlemen ofthis sort who have
spent long life time in the business and
with whom he had the honor to be slightly
acquainted:
1t is 20 be regretted that the Inspector
could not find it convenient to visit this
ncighborhood during his recent short so
ijourn in The county in order that by per
sonal observation he might have learned
enough of mining as conducted here TO have
prevented him from committing such an
GORGEOUS, stupid and objectionable blum
der as he did when he asserted that man
ayers here were 'criminally careless" in
the manner of doing their work. Nothing
would have given these gentlemen more
real pleasure and satisfaction than to have
been his escort through any and all parts OF
their mines they would court from him, or
any one else capable of performing such a
| duty, a more thorough examination of these
works than he has probably ever bestowed
on any of the mines in the State he serves.
Any managers here would gladly have sub
miltcd for his inspection charts and plans
of their works and, as far as was in their
power, explained 10 him their past present
and future designs, and this might have
been real benefit to himself, inasmuch rs
ii would possibly have prevented him from
exhibiting himself in the unenyiablc posi-
ton Of being so fcarfully and wonderfully
ignorant of the subject he was writing
about Boss MINER.
IConLinuCd from last week.