Coal and the coal mines by Greene Homer

Author:Greene, Homer. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: [n. p.]
Published: 1889-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

124 COAL AND THE COAL MINES.

morning at six o'clock. If they enter the mine by shaft they must go down before seven o'clock, for at that hour the engineer stops lowering men and begins to hoist coal. Immediately after arriving at the face of his chamber the miner begins to cut coal. If the vein is thick and clean, if his shots are all effective, and if he has good luck generally, he will cut his allowance of coal for the day by ten or eleven o'clock in the forenoon. It will be understood that by the system in use by most of ,the coal companies not more than a certain number of carloads may be sent out from each chamber per day. And when the miner has blasted down enough coal to make up that number of loads his day's work is done. It is very seldom indeed that he is not through before two o'clock in the afternoon. But he never stays to assist the laborer. It is beneath his dignity as a miner to help break up and loah the coal which has been brought down by means of his judgment and skill." So the laborer is always last in the chamber. His work is seldom done before four or five o'clock in the afternoon. He has just so much coal to break up, load, and push clown to the gangway, no matter how successful the miner may have been. He consoles himself, however, by looking forward to the time when he shall himself become a miner.

Blasting is always a dangerous occupation, and the law in Pennsylvania, embodied in the act of 1885, has recognized its especial danger in the

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