Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1917 — DAYLIGHT COAL MINING NOW [ARTICLE]

DAYLIGHT COAL MINING NOW

New Method to Be Undertaken on a Tremendous Scale in Pennsylvania District. Burgettstown, Pa. —Daylight mining of coal-is to be undertaken in this district on a tremendpus scale. Instead of digging shafts, entrances, runway* and tipples, now used in mining coal, a great battery of modern steam shovels will strip the coal veins, and specially constructed machinery wilt remove the “black diamonds." The method will enable the operators,to take out all of the coal and no expensive supports will be left iw> the earth. It 1» also expected that It will be easier to secure labor for the daylight opes* ations.