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district were obtained samples of coal, slate, and bastard slate, from the 

 Diamond and Primorose beds, and a most excellent pliotogfraph of the 

 winding machinery at the deei^ shaft. ]\Ir. Bietz njade views of repre- 

 sentative surface scenes at Kohinoor. Shenandoah City, and Ellango- 

 wan collieries, and interior views of breast 39 in the first-named col- 

 liery. In the latter, excellent views of " lobbbing the mine." the forma- 

 tion of the coal, and miners at work, were made. 



The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company undertook to 

 make the exhibit of coal and mining implements from the anthracite 

 region of the JMiddle Coal Field. 



As Mr. Brown's time was limited, he was unable to visit the IJich- 

 moud coal fields, and relied upon the agents and proprietors, whose of- 

 fices are in Richmond, for the samples of coal and carboniteinchuhd in 

 the collection. The bituminous coal came from the JEtna mines, 13 

 miles from Richmond, on the Richmond and Danville Railroad. The 

 natural coke, or carbouite, came from the Eureka mines, at the same 

 locality. 



Coals from the Belleville mines of Illinois were obtained by Mr. Ed- 

 mund B. Kirby, and from Collinsville and Mount Olive by Mr. Edward 

 L. Zukoski. Mr. Kirby's collection from the Belleville mines consists 

 of slate from the roof, clay from the floor and one of the i)artings from 

 the upper bench, coal from the blacksmith bench, "nine-inch" bench, 

 drift, block, and bottom coal and iron pyrite. Mr. E. L. Zukoski's col- 

 lection came from mine No. 4 of the Abbey Coal and Mining Company, 

 Saint Clair County, Illinois, and embraces top and bottom coal, drift 

 and block coal, overlying slate and underlying clay. 



Thanks are due INfr. James Macfarlaue, Mr. S. W. Alvord, editor of 

 Towauda Review, Mr. George H. Wood, photographer, and I. O. Blight, 

 superintendent of the State Line and Sullivan Railroad Company, of 

 Towanda, Pa. ; Mr. J. C. Guthrie, vice-i)resident of the Blossburg Coal 

 Company, of Elmira, N Y. ; Mr. H. J. Landrus, general manager of the 

 mine at Arnot; Mr. William Howell, of the Fall Brook Company, at 

 Antrim ; Mr. H. C. Davis, of the Barclay Coal Company, Mr. J. Ray- 

 mond Claghorn,of the State Line and Sullivan Railroad Company, and 

 Messrs. J. W. Queen & Co., of Philadelpliia. 



In the anthracite regions we are greatlj' indebted to Mr. S. B. Whit- 

 ing, general manager of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron 

 Company, of Pottsville, Pa., for material aid in making up a repre- 

 sentative exhibit of economic geology illustrative of the anthracite re- 

 gions, and mining tools and accessories used in that district; also for 

 his zealous efforts in carrying out the proposition to i)hotograph the in- 

 terior of a coal mine. Mr. R. C. Luther, mine engineer of the Philadel- 

 I)hia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and his assistants, Mr. George 

 S. Clements, Mr. John A. Pollard, and Mr. John II. Strauch, resident 

 and supervising engineers, were unremitting in their endeavors to facil- 

 itate the work, as were also Mr. E. F. C. Davis, superintendent of the 



