A Special Report to the Legislature Upon the Causes, Kinds, and Amount of Waste in Mining Anthracite, Band 3

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Board of Commissioners, 1881 - 2 Seiten
 

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Seite 24 - D5:, and is hauled away on the tramway, Z, across the trestling, YY, to the dirt bank, in small cars, which may be tipped on either side, called "dumpers." The slate and bone separated from this coal in part by the socalled slate picker screens, and in part by hand picking, containing a considerable quantity of good coal mixed with or adhering to it is collected in the slate picker hopper D., from which it is taken along the tramway Z1., to the boiler fires, and used as fuel. When it leaves the counter...

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