Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1881 — The Anthracite Industry. [ARTICLE]

The Anthracite Industry.

* The report of Special Census Agent Baphael Pumpelly on the production of anthracite coal gives the following facts and figures : The anthracite mines are confined to eight counties in Pennsylvania, in which there are 273 collieries, having an average yearly capacity of 149,348 tons of 2,000 pounds. The average product for the census year was 100,488 tons. The maximum yearly capacity of all the collieries reported is 40,772,000 tons. The actual output was about 28,000,000 tons. The total number of employes was 68,239, of whom 19,585 were miners, 47,410 were laborers and 1,244 were of the administrative force—foremen, engineers, superintendents, etc. The number of men employed above ground was 15,564; boys, 11,921. The number of men and boys employed below ground w as 36,952 men and 3,802 boys. The total wages paid, $21,680,120. Nearly 10,000,000 of “ culm,” or impure coal and dust, were raised during the year. The consumption of material included 30,405,658 linear feet of unsawed lumber, worth $830,743; 39,605,547 feet of sawed lumber (board measure), worth $644,109 ; explosives to the value of $1,550,680. The number of acres of coal lands reported was 164,852, valued at $102,614,844. There were employed in anthracite mining 409 horses, 7,718 mules and 1,604 steam engines, worth respectively $48,862, $848,665 and $3,708,366. Other statistics rim as follows : Horsepower of engines, 102,522 ; number of boilers, 4,007; value of boilers, $2,332,640; horse-power of boilers, 86,408; mine locomotives, 80 —value, $243,258; number of pit cars, 30,384 —value, $163,560; miles of railroad track underground, 1,085; miles of track outside, 258. Total value of machinery, including engines and boilers, $13,295,415; value of plant (machinery, tracks, cars, animals, shafts, etc.), $39,814,399 ; value of working capital, $4,731,953; value of real estate, $150,161,196. More than 4,000,000,000 tons of anthracite remain to be mmed, or enough to last 146 years at the present rate of mining.

An Indianapolis exchange mentions that St. Jacobs Oil cured Mr. J. H. Mattem, a letter-caffgier of that city, of a severe sprain contracted in the war.— Detroit ( Mich .) Western Home Journal. The assertion that when a Chicago man commits a murder he is at once acquitted, is false. He isn’t brought to trial. —Boston Post.