Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania . , which are kept andcared for by the coke companies in houses erected for that purposeand given out each morning and reclaimed each afternoon after thelabor of the miner is done, that not a single death is known to haveresulted from a gas explosion in the Connellsville region during thewhole of the year. This is one of the features of the report for 1899,and proves that Connellsville operators are not only money-makers,but also life-savers, and that notwithstanding the defects of themining laws of this State
Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania . , which are kept andcared for by the coke companies in houses erected for that purposeand given out each morning and reclaimed each afternoon after thelabor of the miner is done, that not a single death is known to haveresulted from a gas explosion in the Connellsville region during thewhole of the year. This is one of the features of the report for 1899,and proves that Connellsville operators are not only money-makers,but also life-savers, and that notwithstanding the defects of themining laws of this State the Connellsville producers have by suffi-cient ventilation, the use of safety lamps and the employment of ablefire bosses and mine foremen, provided the best possible protectionto the lives of their employes and their own property against thedanger of mine explosion. The mouthlv shipments in cars during 1899 to the three chief pointsof general distribution, with the total monthly output of the regioaand the average daily shipment for each working day in the month,were as follows:. 13 January jn February j3 March, ^3 April, 14 May 13 June J5 July Vj August ... Septembt^r j^ October y^ November j3 December, Total 20,55918,69422,74122,69920,85022,19422,67425,11821,70822,89525,,258 270,932 5,935 40,320 1,550 5,201 36,297 1,512 6,975 43,602 1,615 6,964 43,401 1,736 41,655 1,543 7,245 43,344 1,667 8,203 46,019 1,770 8 127 46,593 1,726 6s27 42,387 1,630 7,452 45,100 1,735 8,071 47,538 1,828 7,948 46,947 1,805 85,689 523,203 1,676 xxlv ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. The monthly shipments for 1898, with the daily averages, were asfollows: « M Month. m a z ^ 0 January, .February,March, ... April May June July August, ..September,October, ..November,December, Total, 14,051 19,044 5,253 12,00it 17,685 5,431 35,125 1,463 19,257 6,414 1,454 18,235 6,825 36,SIS 1,416 17,347 5,387 35,781 1,376 12,023 16,325 5,241 1,292 13,201 15
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