MINING CONDITIONS tTNDËfi CITŸ OP SCBANTÛN, PA.
Delaware, Lackawanna 6c Western Coal Co. collieries—Continued.	to
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DODGE COLLIERY.
(Workings mainly in Taylor Borough. Now opening upper veins in Twenty-second ward of city.)
General conditions.
Mainly eroded; may perhaps he present under very small area under highest land.
Not yet mined; thickness, 2 to 3 feet.
Mines now being opened; depth, see sections on plate 18; thickness, 2\ feet; 4| feet of bottom raised for height.
Dodge colliery does not operate lower beds under this city.
Coal beds.	Name of school.	Mining conditions under school properties.
		
		Depth, about 25 feet; not yet mined; preparations to mine now in progress.
		
Top split of four-foot		Depth, 49 feet; not yet mined; new workings now about 150 feet from the school; chambers will soon extend under school.
		
		
		
HAMPTON COLLIERY.
(Works Diamond and Rock veins only. Hyde Park and Keyser Valley, west of South Main and south of Luzerne Streets.)
Eroded.
Not mined as yet (see Hyde Park colliery, p. 29).
561 acres mined. Depth, see sections on Plates 14 to 16; thickness, about 10 to 12 feet; top bench, 6 to 8 feet, formerly mined; now remining for bottom bench, and reinforcing pillars with gob walls; much of mined area long closed by old squeeze.
570 acres mined. Depth, see sections on Plates 14 to 16; thickness, 9£ feet, includes 3 feet of refuse; long worked and mostly abandoned; bed squeezed and closed in places; now reclaiming pillars under Keyser Valley.
These beds mined by Central and Hyde Park collieries (see pp. 28,29).
	
No. 32 Annex		
	do		Depth, 320 feet; worked, and abandoned for a long time, but now
No. 31		remining for bottom coal; pillars reported sound, being reinforced by gob walls from the remining. Depth, 258 feet; caved and inaccessible.
No. 19		Depth, 291 feet; caved and inaccessible.
No. 22 Annex		Reported inaccessible on account of caves; maps show fair pillar
No. 19		support.
	Depth, 325 feet; caved and inaccessible.
No. 31		Depth, 286 feet; caved and inaccessible.
No. 32 Annex		Mined at Central and Hyde Park collieries (see pp. 28, 29)	
Eight-foot..........
Five-foot, four-foot. Diamond.............
Rock.
Big and other lower beds.