Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania . ^** Point u/^cfts ffje 3 /««//cj ^u*rc found No. 11. SIXTH ANTHRACITE DISTRICT. 211 I mine locomotive track has been built from the breaker to PackerNo. 3, a distance of 2,000 feet; also, a track 2,500 feet to Packer No. 2,over which the coal mined ai Nos. 2 anil3 will be hauled and preparedat Packer No. 4 new breaker, when the old breakers, Nos. 2 and 3,will be permanently abandoned. Primrose Colliery. A slope has been sunk in the basin of the Buck Mountain seam, adistance of 800 feel. From the surface to th
Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania . ^** Point u/^cfts ffje 3 /««//cj ^u*rc found No. 11. SIXTH ANTHRACITE DISTRICT. 211 I mine locomotive track has been built from the breaker to PackerNo. 3, a distance of 2,000 feet; also, a track 2,500 feet to Packer No. 2,over which the coal mined ai Nos. 2 anil3 will be hauled and preparedat Packer No. 4 new breaker, when the old breakers, Nos. 2 and 3,will be permanently abandoned. Primrose Colliery. A slope has been sunk in the basin of the Buck Mountain seam, adistance of 800 feel. From the surface to the top of slope, a borehole has been put down a distance of 400 feet, through which thehoisting rope and signal wire will pass. West Shenandoah. No coal has been shipped from this colliery since the strike. Theold bleaker was taken down and a large breaker is nearing com-pletion. When finished, all the coal mined from Turkey Run andKohinoor collieries, together with the coal mined from West Shenan-doah colliery, will be prepared at the new breaker, which will havea capacity of 2,
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