Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-05-23

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OF the craft we should have examined
the contents Of their pockets after din.
ner
After a smoke, we took trip into
the mines. Three cars were rugged up,
each preceded by mule engine. Soon
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LAM ON the head Of the eng Ineer,
Even the luster of the carboniferous
age shed nothing but darkness on the
scene. Gee, whoa Now We turn to
the right--now 10 the left. AZ length
we reach solitary miner at work, OK.
tracing the consolidated debris of an
ancient luxuriant forest from its bed Of
ages. We saw how he did it, and
then began to retrace our steps.
The mule in front of Brother "
hurst manifested so much repugnance
to him or lawyer in his car that it
had given several demonstrations
which caused fears that it might kick
the roof off the mine. Hence, it was
deemed advisable to have some gen
tleman behind itwhose presence would
command respect and good behavior.
So we took that carand secured safety
to its passengers, We were much en-
tcrtained to see the vegetable fossil in
the roof of the mine, and on returning
to the main shaft, the driver kindly
took us up quarter Of a mile to see a
stump of an old treeln the roof of the
mine. This opening was straight and
the mouth of the mine looked like a
lone star in dark sky. After we
emerged again into the upper world
We heard several Of our party express
an opinion that the life of a miner is q
hard one.
Some Of our party did not go into
the minc-they said they would go out
and hunt flowers From what we
learned we suspect they found some
hop blossoms, Our Belgian friends
were much pleased Mons. Brasseur
found couple of genuine Frenchmen
at the Smith Shop and they ratified off
French with great zest.
The Morrisdalc property once be-
longed to an Englishman. He had
trusted man in New York to large
amount, and when the New York man
failed, he came 10 this country ruined
mar, and found a piece of wilderness
in Clearfeld county as the only avail
able asset. 10 this he moved, and on
this helived for many years, an invalid,
and not aware OF its value. 1t is now
owned six-tenths by Mr. Wigton and
four-tenths by Mr. Doris, The miners
have a capacity of six hundred ton per
day The seam is four feet four inches
and the coal of excellent quality. We
were all much pleased with the mine,
but the mine We struck at the dinner
table delighted us much more as we
were bodily constituted when we first
arrived. The coal on analysis yields
7l,6S9 of fixed carbon, 24O9 OF vola-
tile matter, O.55 of water, 057l of sui
phur and $40 of ash.
At Morrisdalo we met our subscriber
o. S. Fleming, son of Capt, Geo. IL.
Fleming OF Alexandria. He has the
honor of being the only man who put
two dollars at us for the Globe during
our trip.
Arriving at Philipsburg, we all sal
lied forth to inspect the town. We
had scarcely reached the burnt district
before we were called to fall into the
"editoral column" and visit the journal
Office in body. SO itfell to our lot to
introduce the brethern to brother
Murphy-not he of the temperance
fame, but the Editor BY the time we
paid our respects to the printing Office,
which is slowly recovering from the
fire, most of our excursionists had
passed to the upper end OF the town,
We followed in an editorial quadrangle.
1t was the editor of the Globe that re-
marked "How strange to think, that
on this spot, then bowling wilder
ness, some eighty years ago, one
Philips, after whom the town took its
name, came here and established fur
mace. Brother Durborrow, however,
who is more practically acquainted
with that industry, promptly corrected
us, then and there on the side walk,
by stating that it was Screw factory
that Philips had put into operation.
To so bigh an authority on that sub
ject, OF course, we promptly yielded.
After an hours stay in Philipsburg,
seeing the sights, calling on Mr. Zcig-
Ter, the hardware man, and Gen. Lane
who is in the Murphy Movement, I"
we went aboard our car and returned
to Sandy Ridge, where we stopped to
see the process of making fire brick
and ascertained what 100000 brick
would cost for our glass works. Then
wesped on our wayto Tyroneand thence
to Observation-Disclosures Globe.