Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-12-10
A COLUMN FOR MINERS.
CoIlieries Opened and Others
Closed in This Region.
MARKLE s. CO.'S NEW WORKINGS
. AT PINK ASH AND HIGHLAND
COKE BROS. SHUT DOWN NO.
ECKLEY-MINING NOTES, ETC.

Markle x Co.'s slope at their new col
ilery, No. Pink Ash, will be completed
In about two months. 1t will be one of
the deepest in this section, going down
over fourteen hundred feet. The con-
tract is in the hands of Thomas Elliott
OF Freeland, who has three shifts work.
ing on it every day. This slope will be
valuable one to the company, as the
quantity and quality of coal there is of
= the very best. 1t la connected with the
old Pink Ash mine, which has been idle
and filled with water for several wears.
, This water is held in check by thick
. wall of masonry, and the' employees of
NO. fear that when operations are
commenced there will be great danger
OF it breaking through. Markle & Co.,
however, propose to tap it when the
Jeddo tunnel is finished and after il is
dried out large body of coal in the old
slope can be reached. Work on the
breaker for the new opening was began
recently and part of the plane had been
erected, but there will be nothing fur
ther done on the structure until after
the new year. The coal will be shipped
over the ID. S. & S.
The same company this week tenn
porarily closed their new slope, No. 8
Highland, until after January /. The
amount of coal accumulated at the top
became too large, and as the locie road
frem No. breaker will not be finished
Tor some time the men working in No.
were assigned to other slopes The coal
will be hauled over the surface and run
through No. 3 breaker
CoLIERY CLOSED AT EcKLEY.
Coke Cros. & Co. closed their coliery
at No Eckley on Saturday. The en-
ployees there had been expecting it, as
the amount of coal being produced was
not sufficient to keep the slope and
breaker running on full time. There
were apout sixty men working inside,
and these, with the employees of the
breaker, have been distributed among
the Eckley and Drifton colieries. In
order to give work to all miners train
was put on the d. s. & S. from Eckley
to Oneida, and this carries nearly fifty
workmen, principally slate pickers, to
the latter place every morning.
1t Is expected that No. will be
closed about four months, by which
time the company will have arrange
ments completed to run the coal yet re-
manning there to No. 2Eckley breaker.
1t was the intention at first to build a
branch from the new railroad to the
breaker, but the plan was abandoned
when it was learned that the mine
could not furnish enough coal to operate
the place steadily. The breaker, which
firm had Eckley leased, will be torn
down.
SOME LOCAL HISTORY.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Markle were in
Philadelphia this week, and the Times
published the following: The name
Markle stands high in the list of remain
ing, individual coal operators of this State
and In the territory as yet exempt from
corporation control. Lower Luzerne
County, with the Audenried end of Car
bon, comprise the territory in question.
In this limited reserve Eckley b. Coke,
Ario and Calvin Pardee, Linderman,
Skeer & Co., John Markle, J. C. Hayden
Co., and few more control the fam
GUS Lehigh output. 1t is wild region
of country, first occupied by Ario Pardee
when surveyor more than half a CEN
tury ago. The late Judge Brodhead
began the town of Beaver Meadow before
Pardee offered lots in Hazleton to set
tiers, and the late John B. Markle fol- |
lowed Pardee in investments at High
land, Jeddo and Japan, mining com
munities just around the mountain by
turn of the road from Drifton and Free
land, where the Coke properties lay in
part.
1t was through the foresight of the
late Judge Tench Coke that thousands of
acres were bought in at treasurers sale |
just as the century began, and these
acres now make up wonderful mints to
the owners. Mr.. Marke says very
truly that the Lehigh coal field is an
interesting study, presenting life pictures
of rare merit.
THIS YEAR BEATS THE RECORD.
The output of anthracite for the latest
week reported was 900, 900 tons, but last
week the Reading Company's collieries |
began to operate on the usual winter
schedule time, which should curtail the |
production materially. The Reading
and Lehigh Valley Companies closed
their fiscal years on the Both ult., and
the coal tonnage of both companies for
the year is the largest they have ever
carried to market.
The total amount of anthracite coal
sent to market for the week ending
November 2S, as reported by the several
= carrying companies, was 901 ,S07 tons,
compared with sos, ,3lS tons in the cores
ponding week last year, an increase of
SO, ,4S9 tons. The total amount of an
-thracite mined thus far in the year 1891
was 36,629, III tons, compared with 32,-
7S9, 967 tons for the same period last year,
an increase of 1889, ,S04 tons.-Ledger
VIEWERS APPOINTED.
The case of Bernard Gallagher, of San
dy Valley, against NJ. S. Kemmerer q
Co., operators of the Sandy Run colliery,
will be tried again. 1t will be remem
bered that Gallagher obtained verdict
against the company for damages to his
land by culm from the company's collier
les washing over it. The Supreme
Court reversed the decision of the Lu
zerne Court. A jury has been appointed
to view the alleged damaged property,
after which the trial will be resumed.
The result of the trial will be anxiously
awaited by many landowners who have
similar complaints.
LEHIGH VALLEY VS.. CONE CASE.
The case of Coke Bros. & Co. against
the Lehigh Valley Railroad for discrim-
mating in favor of itself as producer
and shipper against the firm was reopen
ed on Tuesday, when the Interstate
Commerce Commission made a motion
in the United States Circuit Court at
Philadelphia to compel the railroad com
pany to obey its order, which called
upon the defendent to cease the discrim-
ination complained of. The answer set
up denied the consttutionality of the
act of Congress on the subject, because it
illegally interfered with the common law