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THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 43
FORMAL OPENING OF THE NEW OAKDALE MINE OF THE CARNEGIE COAL CO.,
A MODEL FOR ECONOMICAL OPERATION.
As forecasted by beautifully steel-engraved invitations,
the Carnegie Coal Co., Carnegie, Pa., on
the afternoon of September 6 treated 75 guests,
business contemporaries and others, to a delightful
and instructive inspection of its new Oakdale
mine in the Panhandle thin vein coal field. Nine
of the companies pit cars, equipped comfortably
with seats and lined with muslin were taken a
distance of nearly a mile through the cool wooded
valley approach into the mine. When in the
electrically-lighted mine, the train was stopped in
front of rooms to permit of careful viewing of the
operation of the electric chain coal cutting machines
furnished by the Morgan-Gardner Electric
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to. About 2,500 feet from the mine opening is the
tipple. The haulage and tipple equipment, which
is especially complete, was installed by the Phillips
Mine & Mill Supply Co. of Pittsburgh. This includes
an automatic arrangement for handling
consisting of a feeder and assembling chain haul.
This device carries the loaded cars to the dump
for emptying, after which it takes them over the
kick-up and back to the assembly haul which
makes up the trip of empty mine cars going back
into the pit. This automatic handling plant is
made more effective through having connected
with it an electric device which governs the speed
of sending the loaded cars to the dump.
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Photo by A. E. Downham. Oakdale, Pa., and 340 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh.
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SOUTHWEST VIEW OF THE;SURFACE PLANT AT OAKDALE MINE OF THE CARNEGIE COAL CO.
Co. of Chicago. The entire moderately equipped
plant was carefully gone over, most of the visitors
being engrossed with several of its economical
innovations.
The Oakdale plant will have a capacity of 1,500
tons a day. Its equipment is electrically driven
throughout. The property embraces 500 acres of
coal and 200 acres of valuable surface land.
The taking out of coal was started at this plant
March 1, this year. Work was pushed day and
night in driving the main entry and turning the
rooms, this development having already brought to
the surface 20,000 tons of coal, which is piled on
the hillside. While the plant was being erected
160 rooms were turned and a large amount of
entry driven, thus bringing out the coal referred
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The power house is of substantial and fire-proof
construction and most attractive to behold. It is
of brick with slate roof. The engine room is lined
with pressed brick and floored with tile. The
power equipment includes two 200 H. P. watertube
boilers direct connected to the 200 K. W.
generator. The mine equipment includes a 13ton
motor locomotive and Morgan-Gardner Electric
Co. chain coal-cutting machines.
Among those attending the inspection were
George Z. Hosack, president of the New York &
Cleveland Gas Coal Co. of Pittsburgh; George T.
Kirkbride, president of the Kirkbride Coal Co.;
Thomas Beadling, general manager of the Verner
Coal Co.; George S. Baton and James Elliot, the
Pittsburgh engineers; quite a party of ladies and