The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-31

the anthracite region the production
was Al. 179, ,5G3 tons, and tho number
of men employed rs 7S9 The repori
also gives interesting figures about the
coke industry in the western part OF
the state. Fayette and Westmorelana
are the principal coke producing couno
tics. There was decrease or !, l54. o'o
tons OF bituminous coal and an increase
Of /, 444 1S9 tons of anthracite over the
production OF 1892
TIE Delaware and HUDSON company's
rev shaft To the ucrth OF No, 2, on the
West side Of the Susquehanna nt
Wilkes Barre, will be known rs No. o
1t is now down to the Cooper vein. The
object of this mine is to do away with
the long slopes and gangways IN the
old No. 8, which are great expense to
the company, as tue coal at present, III
the more distant parts Of the mine has
to be pulled to the foot OF the shaft by
small locomotives. The new No. 8 will
have no need for such steam power
within the niue The shaft will be
sunk to the Red Ash vein or what is
better known as the bottom vein and
all the coal in this vein and the Ross
vein, which has not been touched by
any of the other mines, will be taken
out OF this shaft. When the shaft is
sunk and ready for operations. a breaker
will be built on the south side of it.
This breaker will have all the advantage
es of modern inventions, such as ele-
vators, patent screens, etc 1t is the
intention Of the company that this
breaker shall bs built on such plan as
to be able TO clean and ship 9. 900 tons
Of coal daily. The company will also in
time do away with No. 5 breaker rs far
aS the Delaware and Hudson Is concern
ed, The oil jsct Of the new shaft at the
Boston, now being sunk is to reach the
Ross and Red Ash veins, which the old
shaft had not been sunk to, and by
sinking new shaft tho old one can be
kept going until such time as the new
one will be ready to hoist coal.
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:
The Schuyikill Traction company is re-
ported to be doing large business this
summer.
South Fork and Carrolton coal operators
have mandamused the Pennsy to compel it
to provide coal cars for them as it does for
the Berwind-White company.
Richard Caifrey, of South Bethlehem,
has been appointed general roadmaster Of
the Lehigh Valley railroad His jurisdic-
tion will extend over the entire system.
The West pittston shop OF the Vulcan
Iron works has just restored per cent. of
10 per cont. reduction made early in the
spring, and resumed on lO.hour shifts in
all departments
The Delaware SusQuehanna and SChuyl-
kill railroad received three new engines
Thursday from the Baldwin shops. They
expected N day or SO.
Says the Philadelphia Record "A black
snake over iour feet long wriggled into
Jones, SlWpson & Co. IS store, at Archibald,
scared u woman customer silly, and was
killed by u clerk with hatchet"
4. ]. Edwards, Of Mahanoy City, late a
foreman at the Buck Mountain workings
has been transferred to the foremanship of
Hickory Ridge coliiery, lately made vacant
BY the removal of Mr.. Reinhart to the
Pennsylvania colliery.
Engineers on the Erie are making some
record breakers these warm days. No.
usually lpakes the eight mile run west of
Otesville i'll as many minutes, and We'd
nesday the engineer Of train No. IS made
one mile in 4G seconds and another mile in
As seconds.
The contract for sinking the Middle
Creek shaft was this week awarded to T.
j. Edwards, of Minersville. Mr.. Edwards
has just completed the sinking of deep
slope for Leisenring & Schwenk, at Miners
vile. Work will be begun at Middle Creek
about Aug. l.
The shipments from the mines Of the
Cumberland coal region for the week end
ing Saturday, July 81, 1894, were 113, 44G
tons and the total shipments for the year
to that date 1876, PIG tons, decrease of
81, $40 tons, as compared with the CORE
spending period of 1893
Robert S. Lewis. district passenger
agent OF the Lehigh Valley railroad, ut
Rochester, has been transferred to Buffalo
to act as assistant to Mr, Byington, gener-
al Western passenger agent. Don L. Blood,
who has been depot ticket agent at Buffalo
will be promoted to the Office Of city ticket
agent and in that capacity will have charge
Of the city Office in addition to his present
duties.
The Lebigh Valley car order was dis
| tributed between four car building firms
instead or two, as previously stated. Tie
! Buffalo Manufacturing company has l, wv
cars and the other 1000 were awarded to
the firm of J. W. Hoffman & Co., Of Phila-
delphia, and 45O OF the cars will be built by
the Lebanon Manufacturing company, 800
! by the Carlisle Manufacturing company
and 250 by the Middletown Car works.
a Uniontown dispatch announces that
the Buffalo Coal company, which has had
options ON about 600 acres of coal in Jeffer-
son township, that county, has notified
the owners that tho coal will be taken and
to get their deeds ready. The price is 800
an acre. About 100 acres Of the Samuel
Wells farm goes in, the price for surface
and coal being $50 an acre. The company
is composed of capitalists from Buffalo,
n. Y, who will proceed at once to develop
tue field.
The Shawnee Land company Of Scranton
has purchased thirty acres of land from
Mrs. Blodgett, Of this city. The property
is located in Buttonwood, near the pro
posed Plymouth bridge, and was por-
tion Of the Lazarus estate. The plot will
be divided into $50 building lots. Thy
Shawnee Land company i; new corpor.
alton and is composed Of John Ii. Fellow,
j. George Eisele, jacob KEEPER, j. W.
Browning, Jacob Deitrick and Mortime-
Carpenter. - Wilkes Barre Record.