The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-08-07
FOUR COLLERIES
 ARE MADE USELESS
FLOODS HAVE CAUSED coMPA- MES TO PERMANENTLY ABAN- DON MINES VALUED AT $1,5oo,- ooo-oUIET AT SHENANDOAH.

Shenandoah. Pa, August Civilian Stein. the state mine inspector for the Shenandoah region, today announced that five collieries under his jurisdiction, which have an estimated total value of S1, 100000 have been rendered useless by reason of having been flooded and have been per Inanently abandoned.
 Four of them-Bear Run, East Bear Ridge, Kohinoor and Preston No. 3-be long to the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Coke Company. The other col fiery is the Lawrence and is owned by the Shaefer estate of Pottsville. MT. Stein estimates that out of the thirty-six col lieries in his estate only fourteen are in condition for immediate operation If the strike were ended. The others are In such a condition that 1t would require anywhere from one to four months to clear them of water and make repairs He said the average time would be about two months.
 The abandonment of the five collieries will compel 2000 mine workers to seek employment in other parts of the region and they may have trouble in finding IL II ln6 luOuSdnuS Ol Intn MuO IdNt left the region during the strike should return. This condition of affairs. the mine inspector said, Is a serious matter not only with the companies but witt the men. After the strike shall have beer ended most of the workmen will hay, to remain in idleness for another perioC of time until the collieries gre placed 1T working condition. In the coal fields south of here MT. Stein said the situation is about as bad.
 But in the Wyoming and Lackawanns regions, the mines are in much better condition. The mine inspectors state ment created considerable interest here as 1t confirmed the belief of some of the coal company officials that a full resump- ton of coal mining will not take place this year. and in consequence the ten dency of coal prices will be upward rather than downward.
 The situation so far as the peace oi the Shenandoah region was concerned remains unchanged today. It was prob ably the quietest day since the soldiers were called out Two companies of in fantry are still kept on guard duty ir the town, one at the Reading railway station in a foreign settlement and the other at the Pennsylvania railroad sta ton. close to another foreign colony.
 General Gobin said today that Shen- andoah for a town of it's size is more thickly populated than the worst tene- ment district in New York. He thought the sanitary conditions In the foreign quarters of the place were extremely bad because of the lack of sewerage. He said he had been advised that foreigners in this vicinity were being drilled. but he would not say whether the information he had received was correct.
 He believed, however, there are many smart men among the foreigners here who have been officers in European arm ies and have taken refuge in this coun- try. The ex-officers, the general said, have considerable influence over the others and they were not to be trusted. He characterized the ex-officers as lad venturers and degenerate heirs of noble sires."
 Paul Pulaski, national organizer of the United Mine Workers, who looks after the foreign members of the union, came here today. He denied all the stories of secret drilling by the Polanders who belong to beneficial societies keep up { form of military form, but he said thi: was done only to keep alive the memory of their days at home. These organiza tions, he said, can be found in mos cities where there is any considerabl, number of foreigners.
 ''The foreigners" he continued, ''thinl too much of the freedom they have 1T this country to turn guns against it: government"