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48 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
THE LOGAN COAL CO.
The Logan Coal Co., operating mines at Dunlo
and Beaverdale, Pa., on the South Fork branch
of the Pennsylvania railroad, is making extensive
improvements at its No. 2 mine at Beaverdale
in the way of haulage and equipment. The
lands to be developed comprise a comparatively
regular tract of SOO acres situated East of the
axis of the Wilmore synclinal, having an average
dip of 9 per cent, on a course N. 30 degrees W.,
the course of the strike line being N. 60 degrees E.
The vein worked is the "B" vein known locally
as the "Miller," and runs from 3 feet 6 inches to
4 feet thick. Characteristic of this vein, especially
in that locality, the bottom is very irregular,
the grade in the dip and rise headings often running
as high as 14 to 16 per cent, for short distances,
when it suddenly flattens off to 2 to 4 per
cent. The main heading, for about 2,000 feet, is
driven on a 2 per cent, grade in favor of the
loaded car, after which, to more equally divide
the property, it is driven on an average grade of
1 per cent, in favor of the empty car. The main
heading is driven 9 feet wide and 6 feet high,
the main heading air course being 4%. feet high,
with sufficient width to insure the same area as
the main heading for ventilation purposes. The
dip and rise headings will be about 5 feet high and
wide enough to gob all the bottom dirt it will be
necessary to take up in order to make this height,
with a roadway S feet wide. They will be turned,
as nearly as possible, at right angles to the main
heading and will have an average grade of 9 per
cent, with flat rooms turned off both sides. The
intention is to do away entirely with mule haulage
and also avoid the necessity of taking up so
much bottom for heading height, as well as to reduce
the price of heading work. It has been decided
to use 0000 grooved wire and 30-pound rails
in the main heading and 00 wire and 30-pound
rails in the dip and rise headings.
The company placed a contract with the Goodman
Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, for an electric
haulage plant, which is being installed as fast as
the material arrives. The order includes one 8ton
traction locomotive for hauling on the main
heading and two 3-ton 75 H. P. combination thirdrail
and traction locomotives for hauling in the
dip and rise headings; also a 200-K.W. Goodman
generator wound for 250 volts, direct connected to
a 20 by 22 right-hand McEwen engine made by the
Ridgway Dynamo & Engine Co., which will furnish
power for both No. 2 and No. 6 mines for the
present. The company has one 14 by 16 by 10
by 16 Sullivan compound straight-line air compressor
and is preparing to install another of the
same size, which will supply air to the mining
machines and several pumps. The mining ma­
chines have only lately been introduced in this
mine on account of the prejudice against them,
the very irregular bottom and the extremely heavy
grades to contend with, but they are meeting with
such success that the management has decided to
buy several more machines and in the near future
will mine practically all of the coal by machinery.
In the boiler house there are two 150 H. P. and
one 100 H. P. Erie boilers, connected to a 10-inch
header steam line by 6-inch pipes so arranged that
any boiler can be cut off from the header line at
any time. The present power and boiler house,
a temporary wooden structure, will be replaced
shortly by a much larger fireproof building, with
ample room for the additional machinery that will
be needed in the near future. The present output
of the mine is about 600 tons a day, but with
the increased facilities for handling and cutting
coal it is the intention of the management to raise
the daily output to from 1,000 to 1,200 tons. The
company owns about 200 steel railroad cars of
100,000 pounds capacity each. The mine being
located midway between the towns of Lloydell and
Beaverdale a large majority of the miners live in
private houses although the company has 30
houses for the use of its men and intends to build
more as soon as they are needed. The new equipment
is being installed under the personal supervision
of I. A. Boucher, of Johnstown, Pa., the
president and general manager of the company.
Record of Anthracite Production.
1905. 1904.
January 4,408.578 4,134,245
February 3,922,601 4,326,269
March 5,258,573 4,375,033
April 5,407,786
May 5,285,079
June 5,728,795
July 4,623,527
August 4,331,854
September 3,867,611
October 5,131,542
November 5,419,787,
December 5,063,144
Totals 57,493,522
1903.
5,964,950
5,070,608
5,211,450
5,044,998
5,156,449
5,436,497
5,377,495
5,169,402
4,654,444
3,925,642
4,091,147
4,259,748
,9,362,830
Prof. J. C. Norwood, director of the Kentucky
geological survey, reports that the coal output of
Kentucky for 1904 shows a decrease of 90,000 tons,
compared with 1903. The decrease is accounted
for by the fact that in 1903 the Kentucky fields
were benefited by the strikes in the anthracite
fields of Pennsylvania.