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tunnel Of the mine. This tunuel can lie
run about two miles farther on this same
vein. before the eastern face Of the sec
ond hill Is reached on squak valley.
On the Incline oi ihr strata. there Is
526 feet Of coal above level OF gangway
in the highest bart OF the first hill, or
one nearest Newcastle. with an average
of abrut $50 ieet. This part OF the
mine is about I worked out on this vein.
In the second or eastern hill, the one
West Of squak valley, the highest point
OF coal is il00 feet above gAngway, or ar
average Of zoe feet for whole OF the hill.
QUANTITY or COAL.
On each vein, there is estimated to be
four times the amount of coal in the hill
between Coal creek and Squak valley, as
there is between Coal creek and New
castle.
When all the coal is worked out above
present level of gangway on all OF the
veins at present exposed. tunaelH eau
be run from the level Of Lake Washing
ton, which will give some 500 or Gee feet
on the incline of the coal, where rs
much more coal can be taken out, and
then by introducing steam pumps to
keep the water out of the mine, and
sinking an incline down so the coal may
be hoisied by machinery, the mine may
be worked 1000 teet below the level
of the sea.
On this vein formed by union OF No. l
s. 2, 1000 tons per day could be taken
ont for six years on the level of the pres
ent tunnel.
Probably from No. 8 &6. by way of
the rock tunnel branch of main tunnel or
gangway 1000 tons per day could be
hauled for 20 years. A ten years sup.
ply could also be derived from No.3 d A.
Tunnels at the level of the lake, would
doubtless give 1000 tons more per day
for some 40 years. So that just these
veins already exposed, by deep mining
and all could be prohtably worked SO as
to afford 1000 tons per day for the next
$50 years.
COAL IN soUAK VALLEY.
Between the foot hills OF the Cascade
Mountains and these Coal mountains Is
Squak Lake and Squak valley. The
lake and valley together are some 20 miles
long and from two to three miles wide.
To the northward, the only escape Is by
Squak Slough into Lake Washington.
The southern way to get out OF this
valley is by two passages, one each side
of mountain, now in thesscentre OF the
sourthern part of the valley, with bot
tom land each side oft. What is strange
about it IS, that this lone mountain IS q
continuation of the Newcastle coal noun
tain, the coal veins in it being contin-
uation of those coal veins. The inter-
mediate space betwsen these mountains
of coal and this lone mountain in the
valley as well as the pass east fit, hav-
ing probably beea worn away by water
during past Geologic ages. In squak
valley Messrs. White, Andrews, Hodges
and jones between them own 720 acres OF
coal land.
EXTENT OF COAL LANDS.
From Newcastle to Rcnton the rocks
are nearly all OF the coal bearing strata,
as they are from L axe Washington to
Squak valley. From what has been ex-
posed there little doubt that here Is
region nearly ten miles square in which
enough coal will be discovered before
the present veins are exhausted SO that
1900 tons day can be mined for the
next 1000 years. Such mines as these
may well be called inexhaustable.
NO. 4.
When this vein hal been opened up
for short distance, it was proposed to
abandon it, until John Murray the fore
man offered to take the contract Of open
ing up aud for the working the vein. His
offer was accepted and he still works
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