Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-06-21
THE COKEDALE COAL MINE
A Promising Property That viii Be
a Great Producer
AN UNLIMITED QUANTITY
For Coking, Steam and Gas Purposes
This Coal Is Unsurpassed on the
Pacific Coast

Pacific Coast
The coal mine owned by the Fair
haven Land Company at Cokedale,
some few miles distant from this city
on the line of the Great Northern, is
undoubtedly one of the richest and
most promising propositions on the
coast, aud will develop into a large and
important enterprise. At present there
are thirty men employed in and about
the mine, not including force Of men
putting IN three washers, under the
efficient supprIntendency Of G. f..
/ TrOutman, who 80 successfully con-
structed the washers for the Blue Can
yon company. The washers will be
completed within week or two, and
will greatly increase the quality OF coke
being burned by the company's ovens
by making the coal 50 much cleaner
The capacity Of the washers will be 400
tons per day. Two elevators are also
being put in. -Four coke ovens have
already been constructed, with the in
tentiOn of building as many more in
the near future and to increase the
number indefinitely as the market may
demand. Two vcutiliatiug shafts, run
into the mine, which insure perfect
safety to the miners, the inspector hav-
ing reported the mine to he the best
ventilated Of any on the coast. No
accident has ever occurred to the men
employed ia the mlne. Two railroad
men insisted on entering the mine on
one occasion when the fans were not
working, aud have since repented OF
their hardihood, apart from which no
b one has ever sustained the slightest IN
| jury.
As to the capacity Of the mine and
the quality Of its coal the most casual
and tmscentilic observer would see 10y
the barest inspection Of the mine that
its quantity is unlimited. Grea
huge veins Of coal ramiiy everywhere
2 cruss-cutting each other in almost end
less numbers and showing enough o
the dusky treasure in plain sight e
answer the most cXtravagant denand
which could possibly be placed upon /
4 for years TO come. And IL is to he ob
e served that not only an unlimited
e quantity is i'm easy reach Of the miner
, but the several veins seems to diilc
2 from each other ia quality
increasing IN richness as th'
| vein descends into the earth
e and presenting several varieties, iron
A ordinary coal dust to the finest quality
e of blacksmith's coal, and yields whicl
Y seem to he huge Jumps of almost pur'
r carbon, producing when igniied TIN
< smallest per cent Of ashes of any Goa
/ vet discovered on the coast.
The coal is of excellent steam and ga
producing quality. a letter to tn
Fairhaven Land company from tn
Bellingham Bay gas works says: "ll
Portland the Walls End (AuStralial
= coal gives yield Of 40, candle powe
10, using per cent. shale, or in candl
e feet $3.50. The first days run wit
your coal, with our heats very high
e running six-hour charges, we had
yield of 4.50."
~ The quality Of coke produced fror
" this coal is superior to any of the Pac
iic northwest, and rully equal TO tn
Is famous Connellsville, Pa, coke, heret'
ie fore holding the front rank Of any /
the United States The coke produce
Is at the ovens at Cokedale is fast gainin
p wide reputation on the coast and il
terror states, and within IA reasonabl
is short period VIII enjoy "A market whic
N will necessitate the building of IA larp
number of ovens. Tests which haN
, been made at San Francisco, POrtlan'
~ Seattle, Tacoma and other cities hay
- all given satisfactory returns and ha'
resulted in large number of orders.
le carload of twenty tons was recent
T. shipped to Everett, which, If it Prov
lt satisfactory for the purpose require
will result in a large shipment dali
d. There is every reason to believe til
ch Cokedale, in its output ofcoal aud shi
in ment Of coke, will before long becOn
the most important mining town
nf the state.