The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-28
GENERAL NEWS
OF INDUSTRIES

The Wilkes-Bsrrs Record on Thurs
day printed an interesting three.column
review Of the improvements begun and
planned during the past year in the
colileries of Luzerne county. The com
pilation ia a valuable one and reflects
credit upon its publishers. From it we
learn that the Lehigh and Wilkes
Barre Coal company is sinking new
slope across the pitch in the Red Ash
vein at the Hollenback colliery. This
slope will be about 1900 feet long, and
will open up about half n million tons
of coal The South Wilkes Barre No.
air shaft, which is being sunk on the
anticlinal dividing the South Wilkes
Barre and Buttonwood basins. is now
down to depth of 200 feet. This shaft
is IL feet by 81 feet in the clear, and it
will be sunk to the Hillman vein,
which at this point is about $50 feet
below the surface. The object OF sink
ing this shaft is for the purpose of in
creasing ventilation for the South
Wilkes-Barre colliery. When this
shaft is completed the number of men
at present employed in the South
Wilkes, Barre coliery may be doubled.
Pugh Bros have the contract for sink
ing this shaft, and they expect to com
plete the work by the end Of the year.
A tunnel is being driven at South
Wikss-Bsrre colliery from the Balti'
more vein northward to the basin Of
the Hillman vein, Gangways will Ge
driven in the latter vein from this tun.
mel westward, and outlets will be made
to connect the workings with the new
No air shaft. The present slope in
the Hillman vein at this colliery Is also
being extended from the basin of the
vein through the intervening measures
to the Baltimore vein.
The slope in the Ross vein at Sugar
Notch colliery Is being extended
through the intervening measures TO
the Red Ash vein. This slope will cut
the Primrose. Baltimore, Ross and Red
Ash veins. The new No. 2 air shaft at
Lance colliery. Plymouth, has just been
completed This shaft is II by 27 feet
in the clear, and is sunk to the Ross
vein, depth of $40 feet A slope has
also been sunk at this colliery from the
Cooper vein to the Ross vein, and open.
ings will be made from this slope to
the foot OF the new air shaft in the
Ross vein. Regular mining is expected
10 commence in the Ross vein at this
colliery about Jan l next. A new
slope has also been sunk in the
Baltimore vein at this colliery, which
will open up large area of virgin ter
ritory on the Wilkes. Barre side of the
river. At Nottingham colliery, Ply
mouth, slopes are being extended to the
lower levels Of the Ross and Red Ash
veins, which will open up new
territory for this already extensive
colliery. The old workings around
the shaft and also in the area affected
by the squeeze, which occurred at this
colliery between three and four years
ago, are being filed up with culm.
The culm is flushed into the workings
from the culm bank aud from the
breaker through holes bored from the
surface to the Red Ash vein. At No.
IS colliery. Wanamie, a new slope is
being sunk in the Ross vein. The
slope will be about 1 800 feet long and
the rope for hosting the coal on this
slope will run through bore hole 2lS
feet deep to the engines located on the
surface. The work at the new Max.
we'll shaft at Ashley is progressing
very rapidly. The contractors, Davey
& Wasley, have three shifts on iu
twenty-'our hours. They are down
over 800 feet and expect at any time TO
come through to The Baltimore vein.
1t is the best timbered shaft in the
world; all of the timbering Is OF
Georgia yellow pine.
In this same review the Record gives
extended space to the new develop
ments in Schuylkill county, in which
both Wilkes-Barre and Scranton capi-
tai is interested. The Thuron tract of
40 acres, leased by ex-senator Morgan
B. Williams, is one of the richest Of
the tracts now undergoing develop
ment. There are from fifteen to eigh-
teen veins and it is estimated that the
tract contains at least 80 900 900 tons of
coal. Mr.. Williams will erect large
modern breaker, beginning probably
this fall, and will sink at least two
shafts to the lower measure, which,
with the Spencer slope, will give three
openings Coal men who have looked
over the tract pronounce it a rich find.
For the week ended July 81, anthra.
cite shipments amounted to SSl ,063
tons, an increase OF 102 065 tons over
the same week last year. OF last weeks
increase it furnished no less than SO =
394 tons, against an increase OF "a, 300
tons for the Wyoming region and 14,371
tons for the Lehigh region. The total
shipments so far reported this month
is as follows: First week, 627, 600 tons:
second week. 9Sj, 007 tons; third tlast)
week, sS1, ,0G3 tons; total. 2,403. $50
tons; weekly average, S31, 2S6 tons.
Last weeks shipments were. therefore,
104,O94 tons less than in the preceding
week, but 259, 1854 tons in excess of the
first weeks shipment. For the year to
the end Of last week shipments aggre-
gated q, ,G45,1 1877 tons, against 90, 1852, SIT
for the corresponding period last year,
decrease Of 1, III, ,G20 tons. The full
statement follows:
July 81 July %