The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-03-24
THE St. CLAIR BOOMING
Big SchuyIkill Corporation Will Soon
Begin to Ship Coal.
SCRANTON ENTERPRISE
Tho POttsvilie Plant Under Direction or
Scranton Capitalists Will Commence
Operations in tho Near Future.
Description OF the Workings.

Description OF the Workings.
The Pottsville Miners Journal an
nounces that the St. Clair Coal COM
pany's big operation in Schuylkill
county will soon begin shipments.
This company was organized py
Messrs. d. Il. Taylor. w. w. Paterson
and William II. Taylor, of Scranton,
who some time ago acquired large
and valuable tract of coal land near
st. Clair. Since July last they have
been making extensive improve
ments at and near st. Clair. Near Sill
YER Creek dam this company owns
large body of coal that has been de-
veloped bv Il slope 1850 feet deep, on
the Buck Mountain vein, and their
gangways are now in about IL feet OF
fine coal A railroad. constructed last
summer. runs from this opening to a
point about midway down the OLD
Johns basin. where the company have
about 600 acres OF excellent coal AT
this point u large boiler plant was
erected and furnished steam for a COM
pact and handsome pair of hoisting en-
gines. Contractors Rush and Bolack
are sinking q large shaft to the Buck
Mountain vein. which Is here nearly IL
feet thick and lies almost fiat and in
excellent condition. This work. the
Journal says. will be finished within
thirty days. The coal hoisted from this
shaft will with the coal from Silver
Creek slore be taken over Il railroad
and delivered to the breaker. Two To-
comotives of the well-known Dickson
Manufacturing company's make Will
move the coal over this road nearly
four miles long. Near their breaker.
one and three-quarter miles from their
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opened ON the Buck Mountain vein,
and is now in 1000 feet. Here the
vein is found 70 contain over six feet
of very fine coal This drift will be
continued until it reaches the shaft and
will drain the entire property OF water.
These three openings are expected to
furnish large quantity of coal.
THE NEW BREAKER.
The large new breaker, now under
going the finishing touches, is expected
to be complete and up-to-date in every
respect. The coal cars are delivered at
the breaker by gravity, and when
dumped the empty cars are hoisted
over a car hoist high enough to return
them by gravity to the foot of their
plane. The coal. when dumped, passes
into a long chute, In which are three
sets of bars, 2E-inch space, the fine
coal passing through the bars and the
coarse passing over them to another
set of bars 5ls-inch space at the end of
the chute At the bottom of the chute
the large lumps go to the upper plat
form where they are examined and
passed to a large set of crush
ers, 80 inches in diameter by
As inches long. Coal passing through
the 5ls-inch space Is carried by
gravity to a lower platform where
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Into the large crushers goes all
pure coal. Under the lower plat
form. taking the coal going through
the 5ls-inch space, Is pair of rolls 30
inches in diameter and 36 inches long
into which goes pure coal. The coal
passing through the first crushers goes
over a set of bars 2h-inch space. the
coarse coal going to the lower platform
to rolls. The coal passing through
these bars goes under this set of rolls
to a counter screen and s feet in di-
ameter and II feet long. together with
all the coal that passes through the
rolls under the second or lower plat
form.
The impure coal from both these
platforms Is carried by gravity to a
third pair Of criishers, "A inches In
diameter by 20 inches long, and
is reduced to broken size. then
passed through pair Of bone
rolls. "a Inches diameter by "a
inches long. and reduced to chestnut
and smaller sizes. This coal is then
elevated and discharged to u pair OF
shaking screens, sized and passed over
automatic slate pickers to the pockets.
The counter screen sizes broken and
egg coal. The stove and smaller sizes
are passed to main screens (shakers).
where they are separated and passed
over automatic slate pickers to the
pockets. The broken and egg can be
rebroken IL desired by pair of rolls
q inches in diameter by Sc inches long
and placed at the head of the main
screen for that purpose
TO BE ENLARGED.
Going back to the top Of the breaker
we find the coal that passed through
the 2H-inch space in the bars in the
dump chute. falls into a large pocket
and Is discharged into screen 6xS
feet in diameter and "a feet long.
Broken. egg and stove Goals are pre-
pared in this screen. The broken and
egg coal is hand-picked and passed
either to pockets or rolls at the head
Of the main screens. The picked.
doubtful and bony coal Is telegraphed
to the crushers and rolls near the bot
tom of the breaker. stove coal Is passed
over automatic pickers to the rocket.
chestnut and smaller sizes go to 81
shaker where they are separated. the
chestnut and pea passing over auto
matte pickers and to the pockets. 1t
is the intention Of the management to
build another wing to this breaker.
plans for which are now under way
Then all pure coal will he prepared and
handled on one side-and doubtful and
bony on the other, where jgs will be
used to handle picking from all auto
matte pickers. The breaker Is equip
ped with a line of elevators. 60 feet
high, for elevating the lip screenings.
doubtful and bony coal and for re-
handling all condemned coal. which is
frequently a source of much trouble
and expense, but which is here expected
To be reduced to a minimum. a pit hav-
ing been prepared under the breaker
into which all coal can be dumped, then
elevated to the top of the breaker. to
pass through the sizing and picking pro-
a second time. In the addition to be
cess a second time. In the addition to he
with a screen for the nurnOse of re-
sizing all pickings before they go to
the jigs.
r. X. Griffith. of Pitt.ton. is the de-
signer of the breaker. and james Kres-
sly. of Wilkes Barre. the contractor
building it. The Finch Manufacturing
company, of Scranton. furnished the
breaker machinery, boilers, fans and
fan engines. and the Vulcan Iron
works. of Wilkes Barre. the hosting
engines at the shaft. The. st. Clair