The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-17


The liabilities of the company were:
Capital stock, 10000 shares common,
par $500, and $4,000 preferred, par 800,
SIC, 500, O00;. first mortgage bonds issued,
81 500 900; accounts and bills payable,
$57, 354 Al; accrued interest on bonds to
Dec. 81, 10000; sinking fund, $14,7S196;
balance profit carried forward, $751;
977.4S; total, 1S,154, ,O63.S5; $21,977.4S for
dividend on $lS,OO0,OO0 stock.
The Company's Collieries.
The Caledonia mine is one mile from
Little Glace Bay; 404 persons were en-
ployed above and below ground; coal
raised In 1893, 169, 041 tons. Phelan seam
of feet worked; dip averages one foot
IN ten; vertical depth of shaft 1885 feet;
length of slope. l,600 feet; system of
wo. liking, pillar and bord; ventilation by
Murphy fan, 12X6 feet, running at 12O
revolutions per minute, and giving 1OO,-
900 cubic feet of air; naked lights; coal
heading machines, two (Stanley).
The Glace Bay colliery is fourteen
miles from the town of Sydney and one
half mile from Glace Bay Harbor, from
which shipments were made. Persons
employed, 343 total coal raised, 1893,
12S,316 tons; Harbor seam, feet dip
averages one foot in ten; vertical depth
pillar and bord; coal from deep hoisted
to pit bottom by double 12-inch cylin-
der engine; coal from rise workings low
cred to pit bottom by self-acting incline,
ventilation by Murphy Champion fan,
feet diameter, 80 revolutions a minute,
giving about $4,000 feet of air and capa-
Bile of being worked up to $4,000 feet;
naked lights: screens, ordinary plain
parallel, three-quarter stationary.
The International colliery at Bridge
port is twelve miles from the town of
Sydney; 247 persons employed; total
coal raised in 1893, 126,000 tons; Har-
Dor seam averages feet 10 inches; dip.
one In twelve; length of slope, 2,S0O feet;
vertical shaft depth, 80 feet; system of
working, pillar and room; ventilation.
Murphy fan, feet diameter; naked
lights.
North of Cow Bay.
The Gowrie colliery is on the north
side of Cow Bay; $50 persons employed;
total coal raised in 1893, 1888 tons;
McAuley seam averages 5 feet: dip,
one in eight; Odiorne shaft, 200 feet;
New Pit, 26O feet; two slopes from pit
bottom, being West slope, 1,4O0 feet,
and East slope, $500 feet; system of
working, pillar and room (modified-
the rooms being 10 yards wide, and the
pillars yards) and one section long
wall; ventilation by furnace, feet s
inches by 6 feet, giving 10000 cubic feet
of air; naked lights; screens, common
bar (3), angle 81 degrees, size IL feet by
5 feet inches.
The Reserve colliery is at Bridgeport
Basin, two and one-half miles from
Glace Bay; persons employed now,
a
seam averages 3 feet inches; dip, one
in thirteen; worked by two slopes, of
which the main" is $500 feet, and the
French $500 feet long; vertical depth
about 26I feet; system of working, pill
lar and room; naked lights; screens,
three in use, 20 feet long.
The Old Bridgeport colliery is situ-
ated on the north side of Lingan Bay,
ten miles from the town of Sydney;
persons employed were about 1861 total
coal output in 1893. 50.363 tons Phelan
seam, feet worked; dip averages one
in eleven; shaft, rs feet; system of
working. pillar and bord; naked lights;
no pumps; natural level drainage to
sea; screens, one three-eights mesh,
20 by 6 feet.
The Victoria colliery is at Low Point,
on the north side of Sydney Harbor
and was acquired by the company in
1894. The Ross seam, 6 feet inches, Is
| worked; dip averages 25 degrees; length
of slope, LAO feet; system of working,
pillar and bord; bords Is feet wide,
| also one section of long wall; ventila-
| ton by Murphy fan, 6 feet diameter;
naked lights; screens, four, each 5 feet
wide by 20 feet long.
Some of these mines are worked by
the tail rope system, but the endless
steel rope has been introduced at Gale
donia, Reserve and Little Glace Bay
mines, and is giving great satisfaction,
and will be used in all the mines
Facilities for Shipping.
| The company owns five cargo steam
ers, three steam tugs and five coal
barges, and Is constantly adding to its
floating equipment. 1t controls and
operates thirteen and one-half miles of
narrow-gauge railway (Which is to be
widened to the standard gauge feet
S1a inches); twenty miles of standard
| gauge, and twenty-five miles more are
being finished. The rolling stock COM
prises thirteen locomotives, and some
six hundred passenger and coal cars.
The line of railway to Louisburg has
been built and is in operation for coal
Bay, distance of fourteen miles from
Sydney, and the rails and material are
constantly arriving and bed being pre-
pared for the rest of the line to Louis
burg The maximum grade of the road
Is limited to eight-tenths of / per cent
and it Is being laid with eighty-pound
steel rails.
The output Of the Dominion Coal com.
pany's mines in the year 1893 was dis.
tributed as follows: To Nova Scotia
1O9,S22 tons; to New Brunswick 35391
tons; Prince Edward Island, 1884 tons
Quebec. 499S73 tons; Newfoundland, 30
O54 tons; United States, 1864 tons; St
Pierre Miquelon. 1920 tons; West Indies
4,S25 tons; colliery employees, 10,O4 tons
engines, etc, at collieries, 29,043 tons
bunker steamers, 80, 1876 tons; total S6S,
445 tons.
Long Noted For ItsCoal
While the development of the minin,
of coal has progressed wonderfully il
Nova Scotia since the investment o
the Whitney Syndicate in its mines, thi
province has long been famous for tn,
immense amount of coal 1t contained
Judge Halliburton (Sam Slick, in hi
history Of Nova Scotia, published il
1929, speaks of Il colliery opened tina
year in the Pictou district called the AL
bion colliery. Coal was also mined il
Cape Breton Island, on the north sid
of the present Spanish river, the loca
ton of the present Sydney mines, by th
government of Cape Breton in 1884 II
the year ending Sept 80, 1864, the mine
of Nova Scotia produced 429,351 tons
tt which the Sydney, Lingan and AL
bion mines contributed 314,355 ton
} John Rutherford, of Stellarton, say
that in 1865 thirty-nine mines produce,
in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton 712,57
, tons of coal; that in 1876 these mines in
creased their output only 6S,59l tons
In 1885 twenty-seven mines produces
: 1,352,2O tons, or an increase of 73 pc
cent over the output in 1876. In tn
next five years the increase at the en-
| Of the period was 631, ,79S tons, the tota
= production being 1,9S4,000 tons. In 1876
: the sales for home consumption wer
59,536 tons; for neighboring colonies
52,561 tons, and for other countrie.
33S, 756 tons. In 1886 they We're: Fo
home consumption, 444,652 tons, an