The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-25
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ments for which the colliery stopped shipping
coal several weeks ago have been made,
Quite to the contrary scores of men are busy
loading and unloading material, chopping,
hammering and saving hoisting, lowering
and dumping yet the work has progressed
so far that should orders be received to send
coal through the breaker tomorrow they
could be complied with without interference
with the other work.
Outside Foreman Marshall Baugh is upon
the grounds from morning until night and his
sole ambition seems to be to get everything
complete and in working order before the
order to resume shipments does come. His
workmen have made some wonderful i'm
provements about the colliery and when the
last nail is driven Shenandoah City will be
able to boast of capacity exceeding any of
her previous records and she by no means
ranks far from the leaders in this district.
The outside methods of hauling coal at the
colliery, 50 far as the shaft is concerned, are
being completely revolutionized. For several
years past since the completion of the shaft
whose top rigging is barely perceivabe from
the town, it has been the custom to run both
the loaded and empty cars to and from the
shaft and breaker by grade and endless
chain. Hereafter only the empty cars will
be run by that system. The old hoist house
at the top Of the breaker has been torn down
and in its place is being erected a large COW
cred dump chute. This chute will be con-
nactad with ona of tho old andlass chain nae.
sage ways on level, by means of a long
trestle and this will form direct road for the
loaded cars from the shaft to the breaker.
The remaining side of the endless chain line
will be used for taking the empty cars from
the breaker back to the shaft. This altera-
tion has necessitated change in the method
of dumping the shaft coal into the breaker
Under the old system the loaded cars lowered
by the endless chain ran into the breaker and
dumped their coal into the same chute used
by the drift and strippings cars. Now the
shaft cars have a separate chute which ex-
tends from the new dump house ninety feet
TO the top of the old chutes in the breaker
top. This new chute is so arranged, by means
of partition, that the shaft coal can be sent
down one or two sides. In other words,
should the shaft independent chute become
blocked the coal from the new main chute
can be turned into the same place into which
the drift and strippings cars will dump their
coal. This is looked upon as one of the most
important Improvements.
While the endless chain system of pro.
pulsion is being discarded at one place, it is
being adopted in another. Under the old
system it was the custom to load cars at the
timber pile, which is quite a distance from
the shaft, have them hauled by mule power
to the bottom of the endless chain incline,
then hoisted and run by grade to the shaft,
After the Improvements are complete all
lumber will beihauled to the shaft by direct
aud endless chain line.
All the alterations being made are based
upon plans to save handling and distance
and when they are finished the capacity of
the colliery will be increased from 100 to $50
cars per day, which will be quite an item,
Two new boilers have been placed in the
breaker plant and a number of minor i'm
prOvements have been made about the shaft
hosting engine
But little repair work is going inside the
Shenandoah City. In fact the only work of
any importance now going on there is the
making of plane from the bottom split to
the top split of the Mammoth vein in the
inside slope. This will be quite an extensive
piece Of work and is being done by w. J.
Evans, the contractor.
No one seems to have the slightest idea
when Shenandoah City colliery will resume
operations. One gentleman said he thought
the first of June would be the time, yet
orders might be received at any moment.
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