The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-10-06
AROUND THE COAL MINES


Valley Coal Co. at Midvale Is expected
to be ready for operation by the mid
die of October. II is q mammoth
structure. The breaker win prepare
the coal from the Prospect mine, the
Midvale mine and the Hillrnan work
ings of the Wyoming MINI, and will
have capacity of $500 tens Of pre-
lared coal daily. The coat. instead
Of being dumped into the breaker from
mine cars, will lie carried from the
Midvale and Prospect openings by con-
veyors. When operations begin at the
new breaker the old Prospect, which
is now in operation, will be abandoned
as a breaker but will probably he used
as a coal washery. The Lehigh Valley
Coal company is also constructing n
new iron head frame over the Prospect
shaft, with sclf-dumpirg cages.
Work has been commenced on the
sinking of new slope for the Lehigh
Coal and Land company on the old Nc
| Neal tract, located abou two miles west
| of Hazleton. The slope will be $50
yards deep and will tap into basin Of
| coal Ia miles long, 300 feet wide and II
| feet thick. A breaker is to be erected.
G. p. Markle and company have just
| rCopened the old Ebcrvale To. slore.
| This colliery in its time w1s the best
| producer of coal in the I.anigh region.
Less than half the coal has been mined
| and the place was operated for over
a quarter of a century. The coal viii
| be hauled overland and prepared cor
| market at the Oak la'e breaker. The
| firm eXnects to mire I've hunircd tons
| daily, and when tho strlHpings at that
| poiLt are developed several hundred
Thousand tons will be mined monthly.
| -.lazle'on Sentinel.
The new Pond Creek Coal company
| expect in the very near future to tap
| the water from the old abandoned
| workings there. Two gangways are
| being driven for that purpose. Pond
| Creek mine is near Hazleton and was
| opened many years ago. In it's early
| days mining was nos done as scienti-
| fCally as it is today and therefore as
| much coal was not taken from the
| surface as can be done in these modern
times. The yield promises to be ex-
| ceedingly large.
'The young men in this part of tie
coal field have flowed outward in q
| steady stream for five years or more
! pas" SAYS he Trrp.2uI, IL2crnc
couuty Tribune. This depletion i'm rh,
| homes of the mining Villages has Ct
late caused less or more concern tC
the managers of mining corporations
of the vicinity. The young man is
still necessary part of the eqpment
of any properly conducted colliery
Machinery and foreign labor have dis.
placed them in many Vocations about
the mines. but there is yet abundant
use for the activity, energy and bright.
ness of the American boy and, try a.
they will, the time has not yet arrived
when the coal companies can rur
hVGe plants without them. Hence thu
departure and continued absence ot
tie Eoys unnOticed at first by the Goa
Ch,ci9ls, has lately assumed a position
among their troubelsome questions
and efforts are now being made t
induce the young men to remain here
with this object in view, to make theil
evenings and leisure Eours more pleas
ant than heretofore, club houses anC
rooms are being Duilt in the mnin,
towns. wherein the younger employees
can meet and derive, to a limited eX
teri at least, the advantages to b,
CARED by associating with one an
! thcr, each giving 10 his fellows IT,,
benefit of his knowledge in some par
ticular branch of education or sport
all reaping something from the who'll
and the result tending to bring then
nearer to those attributes which e,
tu make man better and nObler."