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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1888)
THE WEST SHORE. 177 vanUgeously. They have bunkers, usually holding two thousand tons or more; their machinery is im mense ancT possessed of great power; everything moves regularly and systematically, So true is this, and Borate are' the guards thrown about the men, that it may be slated that during the past two years not one fatal accident has occurred in the mines, and only four sligtii accidents and, daring this time over six hundred thousand ions bf coal were taken out Newcastle,1 the longesf worked mine, is twenty-one miles from Seattje by jrail Irregular operations be gan, and were carried cm from 18G7 to 1871, though no coal V aa shipped oui of j the territory. In the lat ter year, a number vof'sina)jj vessels were loaded, in all four thousand ninQ hundred and eighteen tons be ing shipped to San Francisco. This was increased to fourteen thousand eight hundred and thirty tons in 1872. : In 1873, thirteen thousand five hundred and seveoty-two tons (u:eVa shipped; but in 1874, only nino thousand and twbntylsoven tons. Up to this time,' operations had been hampered by lack of means and of facilities. The coal was transported in a most la-j borious,r expensive' manner, being carried over thrco different lines of road and, two lakes, small, boats, strap-iron tramways and horse power being used. In 1875, better arrangements were mad; small locomo tives wero obtained, a fine wharf in town, eta, and as a result, the shipments rose to fifty-six thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven toes,' which were fur ther increased to seventy-seven thonjmnd eight hun dred and forty-nine tons the followicg year, and to ninety.five-thousand; eight hundred1 and sixty-eight tons in 1877. By that time, Seattle had become one of the great factors in the coast coal trade, and chief ly so' through the instrumentality of the Newcastle mine." Daring the past ten years tho mho has had its ups and downs; hw hat! two long and terriblo fires; has suffered from depressions in trade and la bor troubles; and has fluctuated violently in its out put, going aa low aa nincty.four thousand three hun dred and seventy-five tons in 1880 and aa high as one hundred And ninety'; thousand nine hundred and one tons in 18S3.-The entiroiyield of the minp, to the beginning of the, year 18S3, was one million seven hundred aDd fort? thousand tons. The raino at New castle belongs to tho Seattle Coal Transportation Company, whicK in turn, is controlled by the Orcgca Improvement Company. - ; ..Jr-.... - - The Cedar IUver Coal -Company owns, at Cdr Mountain, seven hundred acres. The coal is lignite, like that at Newcastle. It began mining in Aogufct, ia81,ona small scale, and put into the market one thousand seven hundred and thirty-two tons of coal by the close of the year. The" year following, the product rose to twenty thousand eight hundred and eighty-six tons, and fell again in 18SG to twenty thou sand soven hundred and eighty-eight tons. In 1S37, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and ninety-thrco tons wtro mined. The total product to tho begin ning of tho present year was eighty-nino thousand two hundred and twenty-ono tons. Tho output of 18S8, should present anticipations bo realized, will bo fifty thousand tons. 0ne vein only, ten feet in thick ness, is being worked, j There aro other veins, but un developed. At Cedar I Mountain, ono hundred men are employed, and in the town (hero are two hundred inhabitants. Tho'mine is uineteen miles(from Seat tle. Sales' from thtown buukersaro about twenty five recent, of theentlro product, tho remaining sev-entf-fivD per cent finding ready market in Ban Fran ciicV Samuel Jfydr ia president Lawicnco Colman accVkary, and J, M. Colman manager. The Black l)iimonijinne,MI,Bttl10 fmou jjlnck Piawond &mpahytf San i'ranefnco, of which Pf B. Cornwall ia president and prmil stockholder. Xhfhmds include two thousand four .hundred acre, andopoDingltiftve bcen'flsde at two flacl, two mile apart ; .Twelve Wdred.to'n1 bunkers hari bi'in built at each place, Two laVdred wen aroWploycd, and eighi touivwtre iakon .oatf v h Ich ' n'tisixit ty wn in creased to ' '(jvnty-ttto thousand Wu hundred Vol niao tons ia'18SG, to ulcetyit itinM livf )i widml and seventy tonsio lSS7,aid udiuijt(:jlly)ll Min created to ouo hundred thousand tt ::s In l&H' 'This coal is serai-bituminous, -U U good'louiVtwd, and superior for iteaa Bales iV&altljVutount to afau't fifteen hundred tons per month, chiefly to tug ikU fria Francisco take tho remainder cf tho product The total yield to Jauaary 1, ws two hu: Jr I and thirteen thousand and eighty-seven tons. .Tho mine li located U twee a Cedar tn Own rivers. Ibir ty miles, by rail, from Bmttlo. " : -Fraiktio i located oa fircca river, thlrly.four miles from Seattle, and tto'blco at that m be longs to the Orr-pa Ioprovcmcnt Company. 'IMog most remote, it was the IjuI of th nomUr to undergo ihrt wration of ownlofc Wak wa rgun io it in tho fall of IBS;, and doring thfl lut qayfer of tho ! jr ar seven thousand tlzht honrtfcd and Mly-toor tons were taken oul in jrj, wemj uuv hundred and-ninctj-clght toai;jrcr nloftl; and in 18'i7,"ei?hly.nine thomind ttrea hnndrcd and fife Lim.- 'Iha total ontunt'prior to. I'M was ono hun- i dred and nineteen thoaiand two hundml and fifty. even tons. This cmf is cmi-litomioons, ami is a fine article for domcitic lin ,Id hIhcr than the other coal. The company haj eleven hun-