The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-24
.23 MINERS KILLED
IN EIGHT MONTHS
And 1,86O,O23 Tons of Coal Mined in Okla
homa-- Mine Inspector Hanraty Makes Re-
port on Coal, Oil and Gas Operations.

To Hon. C.. n. Haskell, Governor
of Oklahoma.
ST.: | herewith submit to you a
brief summary of my second annual
report, for the eight months preced-
ing June 80, 1909.
The total tonnage OF all grades oil
/ coal mined was 1,S6O,O23, TO accomp
|slish which required the services Of
5,107 miners, 2,117 inside laborersr
and l,195 outside or top laborers
Total number OF men employed In
and ound the coal mines in Okla
homa S4l9.
There were % fatal accidents and
s72 non-fatal accidents, There were
10 widows and 26 children left or
phans, as the result of the above
fatal accidents. There was one man
killed for every S0.370, Sc tons of coal
mined, and one man injured for avery
25.233. 65 tons OF coal mined.
There were 97,47O kegs of powder
used, which make 10 tons of coal
produced foa every keg of powder
used Black powder being the only
explosive reported to this office for
mining coal, there was no way to
make an estimate OF the other ex-
plosives used, such as dynamite,
carbonite and other explosives.
There was coal produced in eleven
counties In Oklahoma, namely: Pitts
burg, Latimer, LIE Flore, Okmulgee,
Haskell, Tulsa, Rogers, Craig and
Wagner. The veins worked vary in
thickness from 20 inches to 73 inches.
There were $50 mines of all kinds
inspected by the three assistant in
spectors, three times each, which
made a total Of 450 inspections. There
were 10 new ventilating fans, in
stalled four sets Of holsing en-
gines, two electric power plants, one
box car loader. four shaker screens,
one coal wasbery and one steel tipple
erected.
There were three miners prosecut
ed and convicted for crossing dead
line, and one engineer convicted and
fined for working without certlfi.
cate, and there were three mine Off
cials plead guilty to violating shot,
firing law, and one official was ac.
quilted aud two miners forfeited
their bonds for The same oifense.
In the same space of time there
were produced 17,417 tons of lead and
zinc concentrates. To accomplish
which required the services of 254
miners actually engaged in mining
ore, not taking into account the large
number Of men engaged in the con
centrating plants nor the number OF
men engaged in non-pIoducing mines
and prospecting.
In the lead and zinc field OF Ottawa
county, Oklahoma, during this period
there were 12 new concentrating
plants erected and 8 new mines op
ened up and Z new air shafts sunk
and three mines abandoned and ont
mill destroyed by fire and one by
boiler explosion.
There were two men killed in the
production of lead ana zinc, who lef
two widows and four children, o
IS ,70S.5 tons for every death.
There were also produced 3,05.
tons of asphalt, which required the
services OF 80 men.
In the same space of time there
were produced 5l,5S9 tons of gypsum
which required the services of S.
men.
Prospecting for gold has been pur
sued during this term with renewed
vigor in the Washta mountain re-
gion. In Kiowa county. There has
been some fiattering reports sent to
this Office with assays TO substantiate
them. noticeable the Goldhill Mining
and Milling Co. has sent to this Of
fee an account OF SO tons of ore
mined. which averaged, according u
millrun tests. $56 per ton.
The following is report of Prof
Edwin DeBarr, of the university ol
Oklahoma, department of chemistr!
and pharmacy:
Norman, Okla. April %, 1904. Mr.
J.. B Lenerts, Roosevelt, Okla.
Dear Sir: The ores assayed for yot
today are as follows: