, 1877-09-15

drawn ny mules 10 the screening
chute, and there is now about $1,000
tons OF coal already mined IN the mine
With their present facilities they Can
take out OF the mine 1900 tons easi ly per
day. Their means Of transportation to
Seattle are only some five hundred and
fifty per day. They average about five
hundred tons per day. The coal bus 10
be drawn by mules in cars from the
mine to the bunkcrs, where the coal is
dumped ON to screens, where he slate
and waste is picked out, and all that will
go through one inch grating drops be-
low; this is againcd screened, all to big
to go through the first grating is
called lump coal, and is the usual class
Of coal designated when speaking OF the
price OF coal. The smaller coal is called
nut coal. This brings some two or three
dollars less per ton, but is greatly in de-
mand tor steamboats,, &C., being excel
lent Tor steaming purposes.
The present capital stock of this com.
pany is SIX thousand shares of 500 each
and is considered SO good property
that no shares are for sale.
In their bunkers ut tho mines, they
can hold some 1900 or 1000 tons OF lump
coal, with some AGO or 500 tons vi nut
coal. The scows take across the lake
each trip three trains; each train twe,e e
cars, or about one hundred tons for Il
boat load.
BY the destruction of their coal bunk
kcrs ut Seattle short time since they
lost IN coal, tile hunkers, &c, not hr
from $25, 900, yet their business is on SO
firm II footing that it was not felt by
them. At present they are making no
repairs on their road. The Seattle and
Walla Walla Railroad, it is expected
will be completed t. this mine this fall
so as to carry all their coal after coupl
OF months or less. Should it be COM
completed according to contract, they
vii abandon their present route of trans
porting their coal to market sending it
instead altogether by the Seattle and
Walla Walla Railroad; which is under
contract to carry 1900 tons of coal per
day, if desired. The company finding
so good market for their coal that they
expect~10 bea able TO sell nearly this
amount per day AZ soon AS transporta-
tion is furnished.
The town OF Newcastle is the growth
of the coal minis; it now contains about
four hundred and fifty in haLitauts
The miners do well there. Have no
cause OF complaint, and do not COM
plain. There is church open to all de-,
nominations; good school Masonic
Odd Fellows, and Good Templars Lodges
in tlourishing condition. Dr. Bryant has
recently been employed on very liberal
terms rs the physician at the mines.
Returned with Linn to Seattle; after
stopping one night at Newcastle.
We walked to Lake Washington,
reaching the hotel, formerly kept by
Frank Mathews at Bensonville in time
to get abovrd of the minuture steamer
Jas. Mortie on which we crossed the lake
to the stage road landing. Here we saw
the steamer Minnie May, nearly as small
as the Morte.
These two little boats do the general
business on this sheet of water. This
lake is about twenty miles long; from
two to four miles wide, and is very deep
and free from obstacles so that any YES
sci once on its waters can safely navigate
it.
Mounting the stage, when about one
half mile from the lake the driver pointed
out the scene of the recent disasterous
runaway where Miss Eliza BraCkett was
thrown out of the stage or jumped out,
and injured SO she died the next day.
Her brother Geo. Bracket and his wife
were also badly bruised. No adequate
cause could be assigned for the runaway.
Our party reached Seattle safely, with
out accidents whatever.
Rev. JOHN REA's LECTURE.-We have
deriyel much nlpnsnrn from n Derusal of