This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...ENGINEERS. Anthracite-Washeries. BY GEORGE W. HARIUS, NEW YORK CITY. (British Columbia Meeting. July, 1905.) Introductory Summary. In the earlier period of anthracite-mining, much coal was wasted, both underground and in the culm-banks on the surface. Such waste is common in the development of new mining districts, in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...ENGINEERS. Anthracite-Washeries. BY GEORGE W. HARIUS, NEW YORK CITY. (British Columbia Meeting. July, 1905.) Introductory Summary. In the earlier period of anthracite-mining, much coal was wasted, both underground and in the culm-banks on the surface. Such waste is common in the development of new mining districts, in which, as a rule, only the richest material can be profitably treated. In the anthracite-region, special causes operated to increase this evil. The mines were generally operated under 20-year leases, and royalties were paid upon such coal only as was actually marketed. The lessees consequently cared for immediate profit only. They were not bound to win all the coal they exposed, or to leave it in such condition that their successors could win it. Nor was it their interest or duty to educate consumers in the use of their product. The market called for coal of large sizes; and such coal they furnished, throwing away the rest. Any pains taken by them to bring about a more rational use of coal by their consumers would have borne fruit, after their leases had expired, to the benefit of somebody else. A full statement of the situation was given in 1893, in the report of the State Commission, appointed in 1889 to investigate the subject.1 That body included the names of Heber S. Thompson, William Griffith and the late Eckley B. Coxe.2 Its report gives special attention to the utilization of the old culm-banks. 1 Report of Commission Appointed to Investigate the Waste of Coal-Mining, with the View to the Utilizing of the Waste, May, 1893. 2 For a statement of Mr. Coxe's great services in this respect, see Dr. Raymond's Biographical Notice of him, Trans., xxv., 448; also, for further information, Trans., i., 9, 55, 59, 406; iii., 13; v., 417, 465; ix., ...
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