The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-08-22
AMONG LOCAL Mines
News From Various Quarters of the
Black Diamond Field.

Newton G Dare finished the new
Ramsay shaft In the northeast part,
of the town of Knoxville last Satur-
day at 300 o'clock sinking through
about four feet, two inches of excel
lent coal The total depth of the
shaft is about "a feet and 1t was com
pleted in exactly 15 working days.
Mr.. Ramsay had figured that it would
take the boys an entire month to COM
plete the job. Henry Newton says
that it Is one of the best coal veins,
quality, roof and bottom considered,
that he has seen in years. He is a
practical coal man and has worked in
Mahaska, Monroe and Jasper coun,
ties and also in Canada.
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Knoxville Journal: One of the
Donald Jeffreys steam shovels has
been at work on the Lewis Jordan
farm, Sh miles southwest of town,
since July s. That farm is the loca-
Ition of one of the biggest Marion
county cuts which the Rock Island
company will have to excavate on
their new line between Carlisle and
Allerton. 1t will be somewhere be-
tween a quarter and a half mile in
length and 1900 feet of that distance
will be a cut averaging Is feet in
depth About IS men are regularly
employed at the Jordan cut.
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The work at the new slope of the
Anderson mine near Flagler has been
tagging for the past two weeks on
account of penetrating to an immense
vein Of water. 1t had been the in
tention to put the slope down to the
coal; drive entryways and sink an
Iairshaft later in the season. The
striking of the water-vein made an
entire change of program. The slope
has accordingly been temporarily
abandoned so that the shaft can be
sunk and pumping plant installed.
Eddyville Tribune: Chas. Switzer,
who is erecting a tower at the new
coal shaft on the Agnew Vance farm,
at the western edge OF Pleasant town
ship, reports work progressing fairly
we'll at the shaft, except that there
is some delay in building the switch
on account Of shortage of graders.
In order to connect the new mine
with the Northwestern, it is neces-
sary TO build a switch a mile and
half in length, and several heavy fills
are necessary. A number of miners
houses are being moved from Green
Ridge to the camp, and other houses
will be built or moved there as oc-
casion demands. No expense is being
spared in the equipment of the new
coal works, 30 it will probably be one
of the best in this locality. =" g
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| Another new Marion county coal
shaft has been completed this week
that on the Alex Knox farm on the
'Attica road, three and one-half miles
southeast Of Knoxville. Mr.. Knox
pins his faith on the Marion county
coal and has been straining every
nerve TO get a good paying mine in
operation. He opened the initial work
on the new shaft about the middle of
last week and had the excavation
down to a depth of about Is feet at
quitting time last Saturday night
The total depth of the shaft, which
he expected to have finished to and
through the coal by Wednesday of
this week, is 25 feet. The location is
in the hill in which the Ardery mine
of rs years ago was located, and
which, by every test, proved to be one
of the very best coal seams in the
county.