Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-30
Tunnel Driftings.

| Ep Payday last Sat
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ssz5rs@sa1 4 N urday at the mines
| - In Europe sui
| - phuric acid is made
| f2 "a entirely from iron
- - pyrites.
| 55 Several new Rand
drilling machines
/ and tripods were re-
ceived at the mines
last week, and will soon be in operation.
new boiler house is being built ut No.
=, IN place of the one recently burnt down.
There are 1000 acres of coal at Crested
Butte, Col, and the vein is six feet in thick
ness. According to analysis this coal is 4
trliie better than Eastern anthracite.
Tunnel Drifter" visited the mines and
took them all in, without the driler-boss or
boss hostler asking him any questions, al
though | spoke to them and asked few
questions regarding the mines. found the
drlller-boss was a German, and the boss
hostler John Bull Englishman; and it
makes no difference what am as long as I
can give you truthful account of the in
side workings of this (the Pilot knOb) iron
mines; but even if L should give you correct
account Tor reportl, thereof, it may not
please every one. But if you or any one
should visit this mine within the coming
month because one month will alter the
appearance greatly, you will say that the
following item is rs correct as any one can
give it.: On entering the mines by way of
No. Tunnel, / meet the ore cars coming
out, loaded with ore, and a boy at the brake
to stop them at the tunnel entrance. Here
the cars are drawn to the plane by mules,
md sent down to the railroad to the foot of
the hill. There the ore is weighed and ship
ped to different points, for manufacture.
After passing the tunnel entrace about two
hundred feet, there is an electric lamp
which gives light to the men and mules as
they pass in and out of the tunnel; and to
my surprise found the mine so Illuminated
by electricity that did not need any other
light. After going into the tunnel about five
hundred feet emerged into the main work.
ings, which are carried on in rooms or slopes
from eighteen to twenty-four feet wide.
The vein is from ten to fourteen feet thick,
and dips at an angle of about fourteen de-
grees. The first or upper six feet is remov-
ed by contract, the lower portion by COM
pany miners-that is, they are paid by the
day. In the centre, Tor nearly SOY, of the
mine is an inclined plane about six hundred
feet in length this plane is laid on the foot
wall, and each section Of rooms or slopes
has a railroad leading from the plane into
them. Here the ore is loaded in the cars
and let down the plane (by an engine which |
is stationary at the lead of the pIane) to the |
terminus of No. 3 Tunnel, when the boys |
take the loaded cars and brake them out to |
the tunnel entrance. The mining is car
RED on principally by the Rand drilling
run with compressed air. Pillars
rom six to twelve feet square are left to
support the roof. Now, Mr.. E., according
% promise the Tunnel Drifter's" name is
n the above article, and so is the word Con-
tantinople.
The production of iron ore in Ohio for the
rear 1884 is given at 216, 2s5 net tons.
One cubic foot of east steel weighs 1898
pounds; of wrought iron, 4s0 pounds; cast
ron, $50 pounds.
The boss machinist and his helpers have
concluded to fill those holes in the pigeon
lole partition with limberger cheese. By so
loing they think they can entice few of
hose turkey buzzald DIS that frequent the hill
n search Of dead animals, and in that wayt
nay catch the tunnel Driftern |,
During the week ended July 18th, the
laily output of finished iron at Pittsburgh,
Pa, including steel rails, reached about
800 tons, which is an increase of from IS to
90 tons per day. |.
The Pilot Knob and GranitevlIle baseball
lubs will play at Graniteville next Sunday.