Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1878-10-25

comes out of his tub of warm wafer as
nice and white as Staunton dry goods
clerk. if not quite so sCyllsn.
find Messrs. Hoge u Mason at their steam
pump on the river bank. pumping the
water out of their lower niue, "nich tne
freshet OF September had left, covering
eight Or ten acres from to feet with
water. TO empty this lake into the IA
nawI,it has been great undertaking, put
energy and industry is equal 10 the eI.sA'
ana before this letter reaches your readers
the miners will be working on the dry bed
Of the sub:erranean lake. Inc operating
of this m,ne is even more difficult than at
CoalburL The seam Of bituminous coal,
SO valual JIG in manufacturing gas, IS only |
three and IL half feet thick, consequently |
the labor.r Is still more cramped Ill getting !
it out, Al !. after watching him sitting and |
dil plng and lying down and digging.
determin q. ii on investigation Oh my re-
turn to Syaunton found the manufacture
of gas was rs difficult as the getting of the
coal, I w,,,i,l not dispute another gas bill
while the World stood. aud would ever re-
gard Mr.. Dick Hardy rs il prosecuted pub
lie benefa.:tor. At these works l under
stood no the miner - wages We're collect
ed, when l saw Car afttr car pulled up TO
the scales with the leather tag hanging
upon it, b. airing the l1umber OF the miner,
who III his den a half nnie under the NOUN
tain had He'd it, the coal elnptied oveD
grating w.lich lets the slack go through,
weighed in u box and Gre dited 10 the proper
person, and here l took in the SITUATION of
the "greaser,' a rarG avis, who with MS
bucket of liquid grease, Tits up every Car
on it's round past his station and pours OIL
upon its creaking axle These boys are
grea sc, thick aud black from the crown OF
tiei heads to the soles of their feet. They
dispose for convenience sake OF all SUI
per ,huous clothing, and their arms and legs
and other exposed portions OF their bodies
look like crocodiles limbs. They work, eat
and sleep in this covering Of grease, and
the ..bank boss" said no did not think the
su Dject Of my investigation had washed
off" since the 4th of last July. Here, too, l
saw
MODEL BOY MINER.
Jim, the son of Pete Brown, he is only IL
years of age and small at that. but is one
of tho best hands at the mine and when
the old man is in his cups takes his pick
| and spends the day in the mine filling his
fail ler's place, getting out tons of coal
day and making his 81 80. That boy will
ma Ike his mark somewhere else than in
| coal bank. These mines at Coalburg and
81 acksburg are the only ones 1 have visi-
| te d but in passing have gotten the
| NAMES OF THE 30 FIRMS
operating along the Kanawha and New
Rivers from Raymond City below Scar to
| Quinnimont on New River. and their Ca
| pacity. 1t will be seen that the coal inter-
est even as partially developed is immense
Beginning at Raymond City and going
up the valley the capacity of this mine Is
400 miners and other hands and 500 tons
of coal per day, of the Peytona Camel
Coal Co.. Chas. Good win. 300 hands and
$50 tons per day; at Campbell's Greek,
Dana Bros, $50 hands 500 tons: Pioneer
Coal Co., R. c. Lowell, 800 hands $50 tons;
Hallwood's mines, 80 hands 200 tons; Coal
mont, so hands 70 tons; Coalburg, Robin
son s. Co.. 24O hands $50 tons; Cedar
Grove. Robinson 4 Co., 25 hands so tons;
East Bank Coalburg, Stuart M. Buck, 6o
hands so tons; Cedar Grove Cooperative
Co, H. P. Tompkins, Supt., IS hands IS
tons; Blacksburg, Mason, Hoge & Mason.
100 hands 100 tons; Paint Creek. Brewer
Smith, go hands 100 tons; Upper Greek.
Lewiston Il kanawlla Coal Co., Lewis f.
Donnally Pres't., rs hands Sd tons; Kama
wha Coal Co., 10 hands Is tons; Morris
Creek, Lewis " Williams, Old Donin-
ion Golfers, 100 hands $50 tons; Molrls
Coal Co., Is hands Is tors; Eureka Co
operative, Is hands Is tons; Straughan
Mines, 100 hands $50 tons. coke is also
made here; Coal Valley Coal Co.. Edward
Evans, 100 hands $50 tons; Cannelton Can
mel Coal Co., J. Tatnall Lea, 300 hands
$50 tons; Crescent mines, w. &. johnson.
Jr., IS hands 100 tons: Frederick Mines
Frederick Faulkner, 95 hands 125 tons:
Eagle Coal Co., Stonewayant, 25 hands OF
tons; Echols Golfers, Berry Williams, 81
hands 81 tons: Gauley Kan Mines, Ansted
so hands 100 tons; Hawks Nest, B j. Jor-
dan, Is hands 20 tons; Nutallbuf,g, John
Nutall, proprietor, 125 hands 200 to ms coal
and coke; Sewell, Longdale Iron Co., Jno
McGutfin, Supt., 80 hands 40 tons OF coke,
ton of iron is made at their furnace with
every ton Of this coke; Fire Creek, M.
Erskine Miller, Business Manager and
Treasurer, rs hands 200 tons of coal IS tons
of coke. a large quantity of this coal, The
Red Ash, reaches stanton, the Lunatic
Asylum being supplied with 1t; at Quf1f-
nimont the last works ON New River CON-
ing East, there is an extensive furnace,
coal to the amount of rs tons a day is
mined from which large amount Of coke
is made, the force here is estimated at 100
hands and J. H. Bramwell is the Superin-
tendent.
Some idea may be had from the above
figures of the great resources and heavy
business of the Kanawha and New River
Valleys, when we see that the force at
over $500 men, the yield per day being
1870 tons of coal and coke. From the
! lower Valley large quantity is shipped
down the river, the rest comes east over
the e. & 0. road and long heavily laden
trains are moving out of the coal region
every hour. A car carries 10 tons, estima-
ting the space occupied by single car at
/ 80 feet, you will be surprised to find that