Evening journal., 1902-08-07
FIVE COLLIERIES
ARE USELESS
Flooded by Rains and Are
Abandoned
ARE VALUED AT $1,5OO,OOO
Situation 10 Far As Peace in ShOl-
andOah Is Concerned, Remains
Unchanged
ARE VALUED At $l,5OO,OOO

Shenandoah, Pa, Aug William
Stein, the state mine inspector for the
Shenandoah region. yesterday an
nounced that five collieries under his
jurisdiction, which have an estimated
value of S1,5OO,O0O, have been rem
dered useless by reason of having been
flooded by heavy rains, and have been
permanently abandoned by the com
panies owning them Four of them
Bear Run, East Bear Ridge. Kohinoor
and Preston No. 3-belong to the Phil
adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company, and he places their value at
about 100000 each. The other col
liery is the Lawrence, and is owned
by the Shaefer estate of Pottsville, and
also represents a value of about $780,
00O Mr. Stein estimates that out of
the SO collieries in his district only 14I
are in a condition for immediate OPP
Grafton if the strike were ended. The
others are in such condition that it
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 collier
les will compel 1000 miners to seek
employment in other parts of the re-
gion. and they may have trouble in
finding it if the thousands of men who
have LETT 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 also with
the men. After the strike shall have
been ended most of the worlmen will
have to remain in idleness for another
period of time until the collieries are
placed in working condition. In the
coal fields south of here, Mr. Stein
said the situation is about as bad. But
in the Wyoming and Lackawanna re-
gion the mines are in much better con-
dition. The mine inspectors statement
created considerable interest here, as
It confirmed the belief Of some of the
coal company officials that n full re-
sumption of coal mining will not take
place this year, and in consequence the
y
rather than downward.
The situation so far as the peace of
the Shenandoah region is concerned
remained unchanged. Yesterday was
probably the quietest day since the
soldiers we're called out one week ago
last night General Goblin in reply to
a query said he had been advised that
foreigners in this vicinity we're being
drilled, but he would not say whether
| the information he had received was
correct. A large percentage Of the
male foreigners, he adder, no doubt
have had military training n their ma
tive lands. where a term Of years in
the army is compulsory. The ex-offi-
GERS. the general said. have consider
able influence over the others, and
they were not to he trusted. He char
acterized the ex-oficers as "adventur-
ers and degenerate heirs of noble
sires"
Paul Pulaski, national organizer of
the United Mine Workers, and vice
president of district No Q, who looks
after the foreign memers of the union,
! came here yesterday. He denied all
the stories of secret drilling by the
Polanders and others. He said there
is no secret organization within the
miners union. He admitted that the
Polanders who belong to beneficial
societies keep up a form of military
organization, but he said this was
done only to keep alive the memory of
their days at home. These organiza-
tiOns. he said, can be found in most
cities where there is any considerable
number Of foreigners.
Mr. Pulaski addressed two large
meetings of foreign-speaking strikers
in this city. There were from 500 to
1000 men present The men declared
in meeting that they would not return
TO work until after the strike shall
have been officially declared off, AIR
Pulaski said the men are in good finan.
cial condition and need no relief.