Coal Mining Practice In District Vii

Author : S. O. Andros
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265793039
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Coal Mining Practice in District VII (Classic Reprint) written by S. O. Andros and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Coal Mining Practice in District VII District N 0. VII of the Illinois Coal Mining Investigations, as shown in fig. 1, includes all mines operating in coal bed 6 west of the Duquoin anticline and north as far as an east-west line about 6 miles south of Springfield. It comprises the fol lowing counties: Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Macoupin, Madison, Marion, Montgomery, Moultrie, Randolph, St. Clair, Shelby and Washington, together with that portion of Perry County west of the Duquoin anticline and those portions of Christian and Sangamon Counties in which bed 6 is mined. Fayette county at present does not contribute to the production of the district. Table 1 gives general data for district VII by counties. A detailed description of the districts into which the State has been divided and the method of collecting the data upon which this bulletin is based is contained in Bulletin 1, A I're liminary Report on Organization and Method. The coal output of the district for the year ended June 30, 1912, was short tons, per cent of the total production of the State. This output came from 196 mines, 150 shipping and 46 local, employing men and operating on an average of 158 days in the year. The number of employees was per cent of all employed in coal mining in the State. The use of undercutting machines made possible the production of per cent of the State's coal output by per cent of the employees. In the fiscal year 1912, machines undercut tons, per cent of the production of the district. The large percentage of undercut coal produced in the district reduces powder consumption. During the year ended June 30. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.