The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-09
GENERAL NEWS
OF INDUSTRIES

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apowerfpl pump from No. . stripping,
which will be placed in the shatt and
the disabled pump taken out. There
was about seventeen feet Of water in the
shaft when the pump gave out, and it
was expected that the process OF drying
would be completed in ten days time.
The delay occasioned by the brsakage
has allowed the water to rise somewhat
but with a substitute apparatus in or.
der and once working tho water will
rapidly disappear The slope which is
being driven a few hundred feet east
of the shaft has attained a depth Of 100
feet 1t will be sunk below the old
works and will serve as an outlet for
all the coal that will be mined there
The development of the old works will
prove a paying boom for the people Of
Silver Brook. Miners who worked in
the place twenty years ago say there is
more good coal in these works to be
vet taken out than there is ut the new
colliery. In the hrst place there was
shaft and slope sunk ut the old works.
The breaker was built partly over she
former and the coal was hoissed to the
breaker by cages The slope Is yet in
fair condition and ia situated about
1000 feet east Of the shaft The vein
pitched somewhere in the neigh borhood
of s5 degrees, but in order to reduce
the incline and make the slope serve
as a mule and travelling way as we'll
as an opening through which the coal
would bs hoisted, the slope was
driven on q pitch Of 45 degrees.
thus leaving almost half the coal
under them. There 10 every reason to
believe that this coal can now be OBJ
tanned A remarkable episode in con-
neesion with the old works, ssys the
Hszleton Standard, was tunnel that
was driven through q fault in the big
volR east for distance Of l, 500 feet
with the expectation of fading the
vein in true form. This tunnel WAS
started near the bottom OF the shaft
which is now being dried out and, hav'
ing been driven the distance above
stated at an enormous expense to the
Papy. all hope Of striking the vein
varquishsd and the tunnel was aban'
donsd. This was twenty years ago and
nothing was thought Of the ungainly
project until the No. 5 stripping was
opened some time ago and the end OF
the abandoned tunnel discovered only
about six feet from the desired vein,
which ran up to 100 feet in thickness.
A company has been formed, COM
posed of well known capitalists, for the
manufacture Of solid steel car wheels.
The plant will, it 10 said, be erected on
the line Of the Reading railroad, below
Wayne Junction. Two ten-ton ham
msrs will be put in, and the steel in
gois will be purchased from one Of the
many large steel companies in Penu-
sylvania. The output at the beginning
will be about thirty-two tons per day,
which will be increased as soon as the
new wheels are put on the market.
The process Of making the new wheels
is the invention Of James A. Faeer, q
well known resident Of Germantown.
Patents have been taken our in this
country. Europe and Canada.
The anthracite blast furnace at TEN.
pie. Bsrks county, which recently shut
down for repairs and want of coke, is
expected to resume shortly, whsn 1000
tons week will be turned out A
large portion Of the iron on hand has
been sold, and daily shipments are be-
ing made. Sheridan furnace No. 2 is
ready TO 90 into blast as soon a supply
coke Is received. No. l is in blast and
using anthracite. Robssonia furnace,
which had to be refined, is only await
Ing the arrival Of coke to go into oper-
alton. It's capacity is 1, 100 tons week.
A. Lebanon the iron situation Is
given as follows: The Colebrook fur
naces are receiving daily shipments OF
coke. and will be put into blast this
week. The Lebanon Valley furnaces
received enough coke to insure steady
operation. The Lebanon furnaces re-
ceivsd q large supply Of coke. The
Bird Coleman furnaces at Cornwall
will be placed in operation in two
weeks, by which time it is expected
coke will have been received,
This 10 what the Pittston Gazette
says concerning the new brick and tile
company that was chartered last week,
TO utilize superior strata Of shale dis
covered in the borough Of Dunmore
"Abram Axhorn, the we'll known ex-
pert in brick making, for many years a
resident Of Pittston, has found bed OF
clay In the neighborhood of Scranton,
which he claims, possesses superior
qualities. and from which vitrifisd
Trick can be made. He is now engaged
in organizing q company to msnufact-
ure brick. and has interested some OF
the most prominent residents of Scran-
ton in the project. Among those who
have taken stock are A. L. Hunt, Will
liam A. Connsll, Horan & Hsaly. Han.
son Carpenter, D. NJ, Jones, H. E.
Hand, s. w. Roberts, DR.. Council, and
William L, Connell. The works will
probably not be ready to off ,r the
brick to Pittston borough for use on
Main street, put Mr.. Axhorn is also
agent for the Hslliwood block. q vitri-
fled brick which he praises very highly,
and he will present samples and bids
10 the town council when the proper
time comes. He has some very inter-
esting test figures that will be worthy
OF consideration.
Joseph A. Wilkin, an engineer on
the Eastern division OF the Erie rail.
way, residing at Matsmoras, Pa. in
conjunction with DR.. James J. Mills,
OF Port Jervis. has just taken out a
patent on an improvement to foot and
hand powers which Is expected to make
him rich man. The invention ia,
especially, Intended for uss with bi.
cycles or tricycles in which the foot
power is applied either to crank shaft
to rotate the same or to treadles that
ale raised by springs and depressed by
the feet The invention 10 also appli.
cable to lathe power, and is particu-
larly adapted for high speed and is a
great improvement on bicycles and
much easier to work than the present
wheels. The feet can rest at any timO
en- the psdalR There ia no lost mo-
tion a. In the present system of eye
lag.
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