The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-06-28
GILBERTON COLLIERY !
An Old Mine to be Given New
Life.
EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS
Another Lift, More Hosting Ways,
Additional Engines and New Boilers
are Among the Numerous
Specifications Laid Out.

The Gilberton colliery, which shut down
on the first of this month for repairs and
Improvements will be one of the best col
lieries the Philadelphia & Reading Coal &
Iron Company has when it starts up again.
The work now going on shows that when
this company undertakes to make improve
ments it does not go half way There has
been some hesitation about the nature and
extent Of the improvements, ut this place,
but it is now announced that the program
is laid out One of the first steps will be
the sinking of the fourth lit on the Buck
Mountain vein slope and when this is done
tunnel will be driven to cut the Seven
Foot, Mammoth, Split of Mammoth, Holmes
and Primrose veins. Another improve
ment will be the construction of a plane
from the third to the fourth lift All coal
will be taken to the fourth lift, making it
the base of operations.
1t is also intended to take out all the
ptmps now in use and use only the largest
sized pump, making each throw two lifts.
This, it is sail, can be easily DONE as the
company has excellent pumps
A new tender slope will also be opeue d.
1t will be east of the present hosting slope.
The new opening will be used only for
supplies and the main slope will be used
exclusively for hosting coal Close to the
| top of this tender slope there will be
supply plane over one thousand feet long.
Everything needed for inside work will be
hoisted over this plane to save carting,
handling and the cost of keeping mules for
hauling.
This plane will have a pair of hoisting
engines at its top and the same engine
house will have pair of engines for the
tender slope. A very large pair of hosting
enginCs will be erected at the top of the
Buck Mountain slope to replace those now
in use.
The boiler house will also be thoroughly
overhauled and the fifty-two cylinder
boilers now in use will be removed and
supplanted by P. s. r. tubular boilers.
Worllmen are getting ready to place ten of
the latter at once and ground is being
cleared for twenty.
The breaker will be model one and in
many respects res emble the recently re-
modelled Shenandoah City breaker. The
old structure will be given a general over
hauling and new iigs, screens and shakers
will be put in.
1t is expected that when all the altera-
/ tions and improvements are com pleted this
breaker will be able to prepare from 900
to 200 tons Of coal daily without crowd
ing the capacity. The preparation of coal
for market is quite a consideration now
and the P. & R. c. & I. Co. is grasping the
situation. Although the work Of re-
modelling the inside and outside workings
of this colliery imply the consumption of
an immense amount of time and labor the
place will not remain idle as long as many
suppose it will, as General Manager f. c.
Luther and General Superintendent John
Veith have issued orders that all work
must be pushed as fast as tools and work
men can make it go. The Gilberton col
liery is operated on the lands of the Gill
bert and Sheafer estates.