The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-26

old workings and foot wall, and 10 equip
ping the mine with u most excellent and
comp lete mine plant, which consists OF a
compound condensing Corliss engine.
operating four plunger pumps, three OF
which are II inches in diameter, and
stroke at 7 feet and is inch.
These pumps lit 800 gallons OF water
per minute, aud are run on a speed OF six
strokes to the minute. Two of the large
pumps throw together to surface, and
have a lift of 400 feet. The remaining two
lift about $50 feet. Four steam pumps
clear the bottom workings and have a lift
of 300 feet.
The hosting engine is 175-horse power,
Of double cylinder, 15x24 inches, which
operates two six-feet drums at q max
ifnum speed of 500 feet per minute, and
200 tons per day Is the present amount
raised, but only one drum Is operated.
TIT true capacity is 1000 tons per day.
There are three air compressors, having q
capacity of thirty-five drills. one operated
by turbine wheel, all of which supply air
for fourteen lngersoll-Sergeant drills, one
hosting engine and three steam pumps.
A small locomotive is used underground
for shifting the ore cars on the owe
level. The ore is placed upon the market
and is used in eastern Pennsylvania fur
naceS.
THE RICHARDS MINE.
One of the numerous branches of the
Central Railroad runs through the niue
property and that of the Richards mine,
which Is situated a short distance back
from the road and is operated by the
Thomas Iron Company.
This mine has the distinction Of being
the heaviest producer in the State. yield
ing 81, 900 tons a year, with $50 men en-
ployed. The vein Is opened and worked
for a distance OF 1900 feet along the trend,
and in the distance there are three open
ings. The maximum width of the vein
l. rA~FNy awA RAaf nSa to N1@.N 1.
worked until the width Is too narrow for
profitable working, which is about eigh-
teen inches. The general average of the
deposit is fully ten feet. The dip Is fifty
degrees to the southeast. The Thomas
Iron Company consume the entire prod
uct, and it is shipped as a 80 per cent.
non-Bessemer ore. The mine plant con-
sists of 300 horse power boiler capacity,
three duplex engines M a Rand air
compressor, which operates our drills.
Steam pumps are used to free the mine
of water.
and employs 100 men, getting out 20 1000
tons of ore u year for the same company.
The Hibernia mines in the same township
employ about one hundred and fifty men
under the Andover Iron Company.
There are two Hurd mines In Morris
county. The one at Port Dram is not i'm
portant except in that the New Jersey
Mining Company, which operates 1t, Is
experimenting with an ore concentration.
The Hurd mine at Hurdtown has the dis
tinction OF being the deepest in the State.
Last years report showed that it was
then 4 300 feet deep on the slope and near
ly q, 900 feet vertically. The bottom of
the mine is about 1000 feet below the
level of the sea. The mine Is operated by
the Glendon Iron Company, which uses
all the ore produced. The mine Is most
completely equipped with machinery, and
as the vein of ore is wide and deep, 1t is g
most profitable niue.
LEAN OLD ODE
At the lean old Ogden mine the old
state OF affairs have been more than re-
stored by Edison ana the New Jersey &
Pennsylvania Concentrating Company.
A vein one hundred feet wide Is being
blasted down at the west end of The old
working, and the material is conveyed to
the big concentrating works by two
cable tramways of the Lock-Miller pat
tern. The cables upon which the carriers
are suspended have u spa of 1000 feet,
aud can carry 400 tons of ore a day. The
ore is about twenty per cent. in mag
netite, and is concentrated to a sixty
eight per cent. Bessemer ore, all the phos-
phorous being eliminated In the concen-
trating process. About 200 men are en-
ployed, and the concentrating works are
probably the busiest shops in New Jer-
sey.
The operations at Cooper g. Hewitt's
Ringwood mines are confined to stripping
the hanging wall in the Peters mine.
The mine looks much like u huge quarry
now: About 20, 200 tons of ore was taken
out in 1891, and the work is still going