Q. Are you prepared to give the figures as to the pay for mining per ton or per car?
A. You referred back, while I was on the stand before, to 1873. I have some figures for the price of mining coal from 1871 to 1878. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company in '71, 2, 3, and 4, the G vein would return per car, $1 17½, the E vein, what they call the Diamond vein——
Q. One dollar seventeen and a half cents per car?
A. That was in 1874.
Q. The E vein, how much?
A. Ninety-three and a half cents. Six cars constitute a full shift between the miner and laborer.
Q. That makes what you would call a day's work?
A. A full shift; that is in the G vein. In the E vein, it is seven cars. The laborer draws one third of the total mined, then what remains after deducting expenses, on an average, amounts to about $1 10 at that time.
Q. One dollar and ten cents for a day for the six or seven cars?
A. Expense. That is the wear and tear that has got to come out of the miners. The miner at that wages, would get $3 50, and the laborer about $2 35.