, 1876-12-02
THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS:

Allen, Directors; G. B. Shattuck,
General Superintendent, chartered
under the laws of California, with
principal Office at San Francisco.
After the present company had
bought the mines and the appurte-
nances appertaining thereto, they
continued to use the wooden tram
ways for some time, but gradually
they superseded the wooden for iron
tracks. Under the management of
the present superintendent, Mr..
Shattuck. the entire distance of the
roads has been laid with iron, the
steamer Lena Gray has been built,
together with the immense scows
now used by the compan,.
I THE TUNNELS.
Having thus given general his
tory of these mines from their dis
covery to the present time, we pro
ceed to describe the mines them
selves and their future prospects.
There are four leads which have al
ready been opened on the territory
of this company. Their dip" is
about 80 east of north. The "strike'
runs from north, 500 west to south,
500 east. Besides these, there are
several more as yet undeveloped.
The first lead opened is known as
tunnel No. l. Tunnel No. 2 lies
one hundred feet further north, and
at about three-quarters of mile un
der the the hill, it joins lead No. l
and forms vein twelve feet III
thickness. Lead No. 3, one hundred
feet
FURTHER NORTH
Proved to be coal of very inferior
quality. Tunnel No. 4, still further
north, is the best of the lot, and has
been but lately opened. Its coal is
of thick, heavy quality, and upon
the whole is the best coal on the
Northwest Coast. The company
now employs 255 men at their mines
and 81 men in their machine shops.
They also employ IA men on the
boats which do the transportation
on the lakes, a transportation that
costs them one do lar per ton, the
company providing roads and boats;
all, save fuel and labor. With in
terest of money employed, the first
cost per ton at the mines is at least
so DOLLARS,
Transportation from the mines to
tide water one dollar more, and from
the coal chutes of the company on
Elliott Bay to San Francisco fonr
dollars additional, making a total OF
seven dollars cost per ton. The av-
erage import duties on goods i'm
ported into the United States is 66
per cent. The duty on coal is but
Is cents per ton, hence, all coal
companies labor at this great disad-
vantage, having to pay tribute to
other employees at &C per cent. and
receive but $50 per cent. in return,
all employed in the coal business
share in the general benefits of a
Republican administration as much
in this particular as they do in 9th
ers. This discrepancy permits the
GRAIN FLEET,
In its autumna! visits 10 California,
to lay down English and Australian
coal at from S6,5 to 81 90 per ton.
This undersells our coal producers,
and hence this company produces
on an average, but $50 tons per day
when much more might be pro
duced, and many more men en-
ployed. But let us once more turn
our attention to the mines. While
walking around in search of the
gentleman to whom we had a letter
of Introduction, we passed one OF
the tunnels and happening to see a
train starting in, we jumped into q
car and were soon rumbling in per
feet darkness, save the light that
shone in the cap of the driver, and
whose dancing glare looked like
some ignis fmuus, that was leading
us in to some dismal destiny. The
time seemed intermina.le as we
rode along the clark drift" until we
came to our stopping place, and
was ushered into one of the
MINERS ROOMS,
Where a couple of men were work
ing away, hewing the black dia
monds from their bed. These
rooms are 80 by 80 feet i'll length
and breadth, and vary in hight as
does the vein of coal. These rooms
are worked until the upper edge OF
the lead is reached, when other
rooms are opened thirty feet further
on, that the roof may be held up on
pillars of coal. Afterwards the
worked out rooms are timbered up
aud the pillars of coal are removed.
The length of the mine extends a
mile beneath the hill under which it
runs, the hill rising five hundred
feet above the tunnels. After a
short inspection, we jumped upon a
loaded train of cars. together with
the men whose "shift" was over,
and spent the time consumed In
emerging from the mine in the de-
lightful occupation OF
DODGING THE ROCKS
That hung down here and there