The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1912-09-04

GU" a. was necessary to run to
coal down an incline about /
2oo teetin length. The coal il
let down in the cars as it comes
from the mine by an eight foot
spool drum made by the san.
lord Day Iron Works. Kpox.
vile, Tenn. The mine cars ara
made by the same people and
are oil 100 cubic foot capacity
or approximately three tons
inree cars are let down the in.
cline at a time with a Il inch
oxlG pillow steel rope, and from
the foot of the incline a tram
road about COCO feet in length
on } per cent descending grade
The coal is moved by a Teton
Amor Plate Meter, made by
Jeffrey Mfg. Co, Columbus
ONO. The tipple ia arranged
with Phillips cross over dunn.
ana the screening apparatus
made by w. j. Savage Il Co.
Knoxville, Tenn. consists of
s 3 an 81 bar screens, operated by
n 20 II. p. Motor. The nut and
SLACK passes through Pinch
shaker bars, the egg through
5-inch, and the block over the
o inch. The bars are so arranged
that they can easily be changed
80 us TO screen any size of coal
the market demands.
The power house is built of
light colored brick, as is also
the boiler house, the power is
obtained from lSx24x30 Com
pound Vertical A utomatic.
Church, Kerr, Westinghouse
engine, direct connected with
300 volt ID. G. 90 X. w. Gener.
ator. The boiler house contains
two 72xls $50 II. p. return tn.
bular boilers, made by the
Houston Standwood * Gamble
Co., Cincinnati, u boiler feed
pump, made by John Mellow
an Co, CINCINNATI, a Warren.
Webster 1900 III. p. feed water
heater, the exhaust from the
power house engine going into
this heater and heating the
water 2l2 degrees f.
The popularity Of Pardee
coal, is that it burns absolutely
without a cIinker, giving com
bustion, the fusing tempera-
tnre OF the ash being 27l0 de-
grees f. 1t is simply impossi-
BILE for this coal to clinker, and
therefore it is an ideal fuel.
The coal is under cut to the
depth of G and 7 feet by Jeffrey
2S-A shortwnll machines, and
in the course of thirty days will
be loaded in the mines by a
shoveling machine manufac.
tnred in Knoxville by The Con
tract Shoveling Co., Inc. The
coal is yery'hard, Jumps nicely
and ia great stocker. In the de-
velopment work a large amount
of the coal was thrown on the
ground and after four years
exposure it showed but very
little disintegration.
The High Splint bed lying
approximately at an elevation
of 1000 feet above tide, aver
age o feet in thickness, is now
being developed, and is also a
high grade fuel. The High
Splint bed is probably the high.
est of the thick beds workable
GOALS, it is n splint of unusually
good character and in the win
ter of 1892 and 1893, two sec.
tions of this coal were taken
from this bed and placed on
display, one in the Virginia
and the other in the Kentuck v
exhibit of the Worlds Fair at
Chicago, Ill.These sections were
taken from the outcrcp not
more than 30 feet under cover.
The coal thrown out for max
ing the entry for that purpose
was necessarily wasted, thir.
teen years afterwards this vast
ed coal, which had been expos
ed to the weather throughout
the period, was apparently un
injured by reason of such expo
sure. Typical analysis of same
is.
Moisture Observation-Disclosures. ass
Volatile ,......-..-. ........ $500
Fixed Carbon ........... 1851