Excerpt from The Coal Fields of King County Talbot Coal Company. After a few years of operation the bed was found to be so badly faulted that it was abandoned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from Coal and the Coal Mines IN treatingof so large a theme in so small a compass it is impossible to do more than make an outline sketch. It has been the aim of the author to give reliable information free from minute details and technicalities. That information has been, for the most part, gathered through personal experience in_ithe mines. Literature of this special subject is very meagre, and the author is unable to acknowledge any real indebtedness to more than half a dozen volumes. First among these is the valuable treatise on Coal Mining, by H. M. Chance of the Pennsylvania Geological Survey. Other volumes from which the author has derived considerable information are the State geological reports of Pennsylvania, the mine in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from A Year in a Coal-Mine From the window we passed along to a little inclosure directly above the mouth of the main hoisting-shaft. Sheer above it the black tower of the tipple pointed up into the hot, blue morning sky; and the dull, dry heat of the flat Illinois country seemed to sink down around it. But from the square, black mouth of the shaft a strong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Blind Brother: A Story of the Pennsylvania Coal Mines Up in the Lackawanna region a strike had been in progress for nearly two weeks. Efforts had been made by the strikers to persuade the miners down the valley to join them, but at first without success. Then a committee of one hundred came down to appeal and to intimidate. In squads of ten or more they visited the mines in the region, and, in the course of their journeyings, had come to the Dryden Slope. They had induced the miners to go out at all the workings they had thus far entered, and were no less successful here. It required persuasion, sometimes threats, sometimes, indeed, even blows, for the miners in Dryden Slope had no cause of complaint against their employers; they earned good wages, and were content. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines At a future time, then, we shall have influ ences acting against as which are now acting strongly with us. We may even then retain no inconsiderable share of the world's trade, but it is impossible that we should go on expanding as we are now doing. Our motion must be reduced to rest, and it is to this change my attention is directed. How long we mav exist in a stationary condition I, for one, should never attempt to conjecture. The question here treated regards the length of time that we may go on rising, and the height of prosperity and wealth to which we may attain. Few will doubt, I think, after examining the subject, that we cannot long rise as we are now doing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Coal Mines: Containing a Description of the Various Systems of Working and Ventilating Mines, Together With a Sketch of the Principal Coal Regions of the Globe, Including Statistics of the Coal Production Most of the matter composing the following pages was prepared for publi cation two years ago, but, on my appointment to the office of Mine Inspector of the State, the work was laid aside for want of time to complete it. It is now offered to the public in its present form in the hope that it will in some degree supply a want long felt by practical men in the United States. I am aware that the work is both too brief and imperfect, but hope its publication may induce some one more competent to prepare a more elaborate volume on the subject. The business of coal mining will continue to be, for several centu ries to come, the main industry of our country, for coal is the main-spring of modern civilization. Less is known, because less is written, on underground coal mining than on any other subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Four Hour Day in Coal: A Study of the Relation, Between the Engineering, of the Organization of Work and the Discontent, Among the Workers in the Coal Mines Layout of openings of a mine; Sketch of a working panel; Percentage of present full-time output produced in the United States by all bituminous operators making weekly reports; Working time at bituminous coal mines during week ending August 20, 1921 compared with corresponding week in 1920; Percent of bituminous coal employees working each specified percent of full time by groups of occupations; Average full time hours; hours of operation of mines, and hours worked by employees in bituminous mines: Miners, hand, Miners, machine, Loaders; Average number of days mines worked and average number of short tons produced per miner; Average number of short tons per miner per day for thirty mines; Relation of percentage of total number of men to percentages of total production: Pick mine, Machine mine, Pick and machine mine, Equal turn clause mine; Curve showing relation between percentage of output and percentage of miners: I. Pick mine, II. Machine mine, III. Pick and machine mine, IV. Equal turn clause mine; Comparison between the outputs obtained from the miners is four mines About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Coal: Report of Henry E. Colton, Geologist and Inspectors of Mines; On the Coal Mines of Tennessee, and Other Minerals, to A. W. Hawkins, Commissioner, Agriculture, Statistics and Mines In my biennial report to Governor Hawkins, under date of January 1, 1883, in speaking of the coal mines of Tennessee, I used the following language (page 14): "Coal mining in Tennessee has reached a condition which imperatively demands that the strong arm of the law should intervene to protect the miners from such catastrophes as have too often occurred, when, either from ignorance or criminal carelessness on the part of those in control, the necessary precautions for safety had been neglected. "A supervision of these mines by a competent engineer is imperatively demanded. In order to meet what I regarded as a pressing public necessity, I directed Prof. Colton to make an inspection of these mines, a report of which will be submitted in a few days." In reference to the iron interests of our State, in the same report (page 15-16), I said: The iron interests of Tennessee are developing into immense proportions, both present and prospective. Those who assume that the iron interests of our State are fully known, but advertise their own ignorance of the subject. Much, it is true, has heretofore been known and published in regard to our deposits of iron ores. Concerning many of them, however, the public have had no definite information in reference either to their extent or quality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
