The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-04
Pacific Coast Company Buys Mach
inery for Coal Greek.
CAPACITY 1000 TONS DAILY.
Contract Let to General Electric
Company for Electric Locomotive
and Lighting Plant at Newly De-
veloped Understanding of New
ton Plans for the FufCre.

TIE logical ard practically certain out-
Come % 4 contract let yesterday ~ the
Pacific Coast Company viii b the add
ton % $50 tons Of tax. daily product os
lis coal mines and the employment OF $50
additional miners The deal was made De-
tween the Pacific Coast Company and ".
]. CRANES, representing the General Ehec-
trio Company, and is Ter the purchase ot
electric light ana power plants by which
the former c0mpanys new Rhine az ts5sAl
creek viii &c opened up and machinery
supplied for handling its CARBON product
a tr.fie over u mile east Of Newcastle
on the line OF the Columbia * Puget Sound
railroad. lies large coal field. owned oy
the Pacific Coast Company, which until
eight months ago was undeveiopezi. and
It's capacity little more than guessed at
Development Work was begun eigat
months ago by the opening % L tunnel
into the mine. This followed the vein for
almost "a mile straight into the mountain.
Some small amount Of coal has been S4l4p-
ped. but the mine has not yet oesen pat on
producing scale 81 any magnitude.
IL il known thai the purchase of an
electric power and lighting plant Tor
operation in the Coal creek mine is but
the first Of series OF valuable improve
u2ents which the Pacific Coast Company
has undertaken N tae development OF It's
coal properties. While nothing deaniie has
Yet been made puo!le concerning the ex-
act nature Of The coufem plated better
nasnts, il Is reasonably certain thai a 40
horsepower electric hoist viii be put in
the Coal creek mine within q short time.
The electrical machinery purchased Of
the General Electric Company is the arSt
IF its kind 10 be supplied 20 any coal
mine in the state. and its Inss2liment viii
&c the % ginning Of - new era in coal lsl!g-
iug in Washington. Part OF the plant for
the operation Of the mine Is an electric
locomotive. with power sufficient 70 haul
lfty loaded pit cars. each containing ), 40
pounds OF coal, or j total Of -. ~ pounds.
TIE cars viii be run on standard gauge
tracks. ana the plant is calculated 20 han
die .tsa tons Of coal per day.
The power generator for the operation
u the machinery and electric locomotive
viii have a capacity OF 80 horse power.
The second part OF the machinery par
chased yesterday Is Il lighting plan; Cor the
pany situated st Coal creek. which, hy-
the way. viii probably grow into a very
lively mining camp within the next year.
The generator for this plant viii nave Z
capacity ~ SO ncandescent lights.
The vein tapped by the Coal creek tan
the Newcastle mine. TIE quality Of The
coal Is said 20 be similar and equal IN
that mined a Newcastle with the iatiics-
tons favorable 10 better quality rs depth
IS attained.
Part Of the comnany's plans for the an
T.rovement Of It's mines is the contemplated
construction of an electric hoiS ing plant,
with power also for the operation of the
fans pumps and other machinery by the
current from the dyuanos.
The aggregate OF the contracts entered
into yesterday between the Pacific Coast
Company and the General Electric Com
pany Is understood 10 DE siat.s- With the
mine running at fall capacity SIS output
alone could fiji u collier every three days
lying AZ the ounkers IN this city.