INDEX.

Accidents resulting from falls, [126];
to boys, [218].
Act of 1885, [88].
After damp, composition of, etc., [167].
Air currents in mines, [148], [149].
Air, deterioration of, in mines, [147], [152].
Airways, beginning of, [95].
Allen, Nicholas, [49], [62].
Ancients, use of coal by, [35].
Animal life of Carboniferous era, [18].
Anthracite coal, analysis of, [6];
commercial sizes of, [181];
description of, [8];
ignition of, [59];
of bituminous origin, [25];
skill in mining, [192].
Anticlinals, [25].
Appalachian Range, [3].
Archean time, [3].
Areas of coal measures, [31];
of Pennsylvania coal fields, [33], [34].
Avondale Mine, disaster at, [173].
Baltimore vein, [75].
Basin in a coal seam, [29].
Battery in steep chambers, [108].
Bearing in, in bituminous mines, [197].
Benches in coal seams, [23–115].
Bituminous coal, analysis of, [7];
description of, [8];
process of mining, [194].
Black damp, composition, etc., [169].
Blasting in mines, [119], [120], [125], [131].
Blossom of coal, [77].
Blower of gas, [160].
Boys, accidents to, [218];
amusements of, [219];
at tipple work, [202];
characteristics of, [217];
duties of, at breaker, [215];
in British coal mines, [205].
Boy door-tenders, duties of, [214].
Boy drivers, duties of, [210].
Braddock’s road, [40].
Brattice at face of chamber, [103].
Breaker, description of, [179];
location of, [178], [183];
passage of coal through, [185];
picking shutes in, [186];
structure and appearance of, [184].
Break through, in bituminous mines, [195].
Breast. See [Chamber.]
Bryden, Alexander, [143].
Bryden, Andrew, [140], [168].
Buildings at mouth of shaft, [176].
Buntons in shaft, [89].
Butler, Col. Lord, [56].
Butt cleavage in bituminous mines, [194].
Butty, [114].
Calamites, [17].
Candles, use of, in mines, [162].
Cannel coal, [6], [13].
Carbondale Mines, fall in, [140].
Carboniferous age, [3].
Carboniferous era, animal life of, [18].
Carboniferous plants, [14–16].
Carriage in shaft, [90].
Cartridge, how made and used, [117].
Cave holes, [137].
Cenozoic time, [4].
Chain pillars, [109].
[Chamber], car track in, [103];
description of, [100];
length of, [102];
scene at face of, [131].
Charcoal, process of formation, [10].
Charles, John, [50].
Chest, miner’s, [120].
Choke damp, [169].
Cist, Charles, [48].
Cist, Jacob, [52], [58].
Coal, classification of, [7];
originally all bituminous, [12];
origin of, [8];
production, by corporations, [70];
specific gravity of, what is it? [6].
Coal dust, explosive quality of, [172].
Coal lands, division of, [69];
investments in, [68];
leasing of, [71];
value of, [70].
Coal mining by corporations, [72].
Coal plants, age of, [3].
Coal seams, number and thickness of, [22], [23].
Coal-waste, heaps of, [191].
Conglomerate, [76].
Conifers, [17].
Corve, in British coal mines, [205].
Cost of different methods of entry, [92].
Counter-gangway, [105].
Crahan, Martin, story of, [220].
Creeping pillars, [136].
Creuzot Mine, accident at, [170].
Crop falls, [139].
Cross-headings, [95].
Crowbar, miner’s tool, [121].
Crust of earth, subsidence of, etc., [24].
“Cry of the Children,” Mrs. Browning’s, [207].
Culm, its disposition and use, [190].
Curr, John, [90].
Davy, Sir Humphrey, experiments of, [162].
Decapitation of coal seams, [29].
Delaware and Hudson gravity railroad, [66];
canal, [66].
Diamond drill, [79].
Dip of strata, [29].
Door boy, duties of, etc., [149], [214].
Doors in mines, [149].
Drainage in mines, [154].
Drift, as a mode of entry, [80].
Drilling, by diamond drill, [79];
by hand, [78];
by rope method, [78];
by spring pole method, [78].
Drill, machine hand, [116];
miner’s, [116].
Driver boss, his duties, etc., [113].
Driver boy, duties of, etc., [113], [210], [213].
Dump shute bars in breaker, [185].
Eagle Shaft, disaster at, [168].
Early mining methods, [94].
Eastern middle coal field, [33].
Electricity in breakers, [217];
in mines, [105], [122], [127], [213].
Enaliosaurs, [20].
Entrances in mines, [101].
Entries in bituminous mines, [195], [196].
Evans, Oliver, [52].
Experiments with anthracite, [52], [53].
Face cleavage in bituminous mines, [194].
Face of chamber, [101].
Falls of roof and coal, [125], [135].
Fan for ventilation, [151].
Fault in strata, [26].
Felling Colliery, disaster at, [162].
Fell, Judge Jesse, [53].
Females in British coal mines, [206].
Ferns of coal era, [16].
Fire boss, duties of, etc., [112], [166].
Fire damp, characteristics of, [160];
explosions of, [161];
in abandoned workings, [166].
Fishes, age of, [3];
of Carboniferous age, [19].
Fissures in strata, [26].
Flanigan, John, [94].
Flowers in Carboniferous age, [21].
Gangways, beginning of, [95];
description of, [97];
direction of, [98];
driving, [113];
length of, [104];
walking in, [129].
Gases not confined to coal measures, [159].
Germany, mining of coal in, [37].
Ginther, Philip, [47].
Girls in British coal mines, [205].
Gore, Obadiah, experiments of, [45].
Graff, Frederick, [52].
Great Summit Mine, [57].
Guibal, inventor of fan, [152].
Guides in shaft, [90].
Hammer, miner’s, [121].
Head-frame at mouth of shaft, [177].
Health of mine workers, [153].
Hennepin, Father, explorer, [38].
Hillegas, Michael, [48].
Hoisting apparatus at shaft, [177].
Hollenback, Colonel George M., [56].
Horsebacks in coal seams, [28].
Hosie, John, adventure of, [145].
Hurrier in British mines, [205].
Inclined planes in mines, [105].
Indians, coal known to, [37], [43], [44].
Inside slopes, [106].
Invertebrates, age of, [3].
Investments in coal lands, [68].
Jenkins, Henry, [180].
Laborers, duties of, etc., [114], [122].
Lackawanna region, early coal trade in, [65].
Lagging, its use, etc., [82].
Lamp, miner’s, [121].
Laplace, astronomer, [1].
Lehigh coal, early trade in, [57], [58], [62].
Lepidodendrids, [17].
Leschot, inventor, [79].
Lift mining, [85], [107].
Light carbureted hydrogen, [159].
Lignite, [6], [11].
Loading place in breaker, [189].
Localities in which coal is found, [31], [32].
Locomotives in mines, [199].
London, burning of coal in, [36].
Long wall mining system, [110].
Loyalsock coal field, [31].
Lump coal, bituminous, [202].
Machine for mining soft coal, [197].
Mammals, age of, [4], [12].
Man, age of, [4].
Marsh gas, composition of, etc., [160].
Mellen and Bishop, experimenters, [64].
Mesozoic time, [4].
Mine, anthracite, number of employees in, [112].
Mine boss, duties, etc., [112].
Mine car, [123].
Mine, darkness in a, [133];
in an abandoned, [134];
silence in a deserted, [132].
Mine law of 1870 and 1885, [208].
Miner, Charles, [58].
Miner, appearance of, [227];
character and ambition of, [230];
clothing of, [228];
duties of, etc., [114], [122], [124];
home and outside occupation of, [226];
nativity of, [228].
Mines, flooding of, [156].
Miocene period, [12].
Mules in mines, [212].
Nanticoke, accident at, [157].
Nebular Hypothesis, [1].
Needle, miner’s, [117].
Newcastle, carrying coals to, [37].
Nobles, David, hunter, [65].
Northern coal field, [33].
Nut coal, bituminous, [202].
Open quarry mining, [80].
Outcrop of strata, [29], [75].
Paleozoic time, [3].
Pannier women in British mines, [205].
Paris, burning of coal in, [37].
Partings in coal seams, [23].
Peat, [6], [11].
Pennsylvania, coal fields of, [32], [33], [34].
Picking machine in breaker, [187].
Picking shute in breaker, [186].
Pick, miner’s, [121].
Pillar and breast mining system, [99].
Pillars at foot of shaft, [95];
creeping, [136];
robbing of, [133];
slipping, [136].
Pinch in a coal mine, [28].
Pittsburgh, coal beds near, [193];
coal trade of, [42];
discovery of coal near, [41].
Pittsburg, Kansas, disaster at, [172].
Pockets in breaker, [189].
Props, use and setting of, [114].
Prospecting for coal, [75].
Pump mining, [155].
Pumpway in shaft, [155].
Putter, in British mines, [205].
Rats in mines, [212].
Reptiles, age of, [4], [12].
Rhode Island, coal in, [32], [40].
Rib of coal, [101].
Richmond coal field, [38].
Robbing pillars, [133].
Robinson, John W., [58].
Rocky Mountains, [20].
Rolls in breaker, [179].
Rolls in coal seams, [28].
Rooms in bituminous mines, [195].
Run of mine, bituminous coal, [202].
Safety carriage, [91].
Safety lamps, how to use, [165];
invention of, [163].
Schuylkill region, early coal trade in, [62], [64].
Scotland, mining of coal in, [37].
Scraper, in bituminous mines, [198].
Scraper, use of, [117].
Screen, revolving, in breaker, [180].
Semi-anthracite coal, [8].
Shaft, compartments of, [89];
descending a, [128];
foot of, [128];
in bituminous mines, [199];
in steep-pitching seams, [109];
location and depth of, [86];
sinking of, [87];
water in, while sinking, [154].
Sheaves in head-frame, [177].
Shoemaker, Colonel George, [62].
Shovel, miner’s, [121].
Sigillariæ, [17].
Slack, bituminous waste, [202].
Slate picker’s duties, etc., [186].
Sledge, miner’s, [121].
Slipping pillars, [136].
Slope, dimensions of, [85];
entrance by, [84];
in steep-pitching seams, [85].
Smith, Abijah, [56].
Smith, John, [56].
Smut of coal, [77].
Southern coal field, [32].
Sphagnum, [11].
Splits of the air current, [148].
Squeeze in a mine, [28], [136].
Squib, use of, [118].
Stair shaft in bituminous mines, [200].
States in which coal is found, [31], [32].
Steep-pitching seams, raining in, [107].
Stigmaria, [18].
Stockton Mines, accident at, [139].
Strike of strata, [29].
Strikes among miners, [225].
Summit Hill Mine, [80].
Sump in mine, [96].
Surface, disturbance of, by falls, [138].
Susquehanna River, coal trade, [41].
Swamp in mines, [29].
Symbols marked on cars, [223].
Synclinals, [25].
Tamping, process of, [118].
Temperature in mines, [210].
Terrace in coal outcrop, [77].
Theophrastus, [35].
Tipple, at the bituminous mines, [201], [203].
Tunnel, entrance by, [82].
Tunnels in mine interiors, [84], [106].
Turnbull, William, [58].
Ventilation by fan, [151];
by open furnace, [150];
in bituminous mines, [199];
principle of, in mines, [97], [148].
Von Storch, H. C. L., [65].
Wages of miners, [224];
computing and payment of, [222];
of boys, [213–215];
sliding scale for computing, [224].
Waste in coal mining, [134];
of the coal measures, [28].
Water, driving workings toward, [155];
in mine, [96];
tonnage of, hoisted, [155].
Weighing coal, [223].
Weiss, Colonel Jacob, [48].
Western middle coal field, [33].
West Pittston, disaster at, [175].
White & Hazard, coal trade of, [62];
experiments of, [60].
Wilcox, Crandal, [56].
Wings in shaft, [91].
Woodward breaker, [121].
Working pillars, [136].
Wright, Joseph, [56].
Wurts, William and Maurice, [65].
Wyoming coal field, [33].
Wyoming valley, discovery of coal in, [45];
early coal trade of, [56].
Ziegler, Charles W., [188].

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