KANSAS COAL. 729 
In Osage County there are eighty-four coal shafts (five are stopes, but here 
for brevity considered shafts) located as follows : 
Osage City and vicinity 31 
Peterton 5 
Dragoon 3 
Burlingame 12 
Scranton 17 
Carbondale 14 
Of this number, ten are worked out or abandoned, and in the month of 
December twelve were not operating, leaving sixty-two in operation — quite a 
number of these working but a few men. These shafts all operated by horse- 
power. 
No. bushels of coal mined in Osage County . . 4,723,376 
No. of miners i>5i8 
No. mine bosses and weighers 127 
This classification of men is made because the miners are paid by the bushel 
and mine bosses and other employes are paid by the day or month. 
Amount of coal mined per each miner, 3,110 bushels; per day for each 
miner, allowing 150 working days, twenty-one bushels; amount of money paid 
miners, $330,500; per miner, $217. Mining bosses and laborers not included, 
just actual diggers paid that amount. 
Had the demand for coal been good and mining active the business would 
have been easily one-third larger and these figures correspondingly larger. 
In addition to above amount of coal there was of stripped coal in the vicin- 
ity of Scranton and Carbondale, 707,153 bushels. Ninety teams and 120 men 
in stripped coal. 
Thus, in Osage County, the output of coal for the last six months of 1883, 
was 5,429,520 bushels. 
Miners employed . „ , i>564 
Laborers and strippers 201 
Total 1,765 
This does not include operators, superintendents, office-men, etc. 
The coal mines in Cherokee and Crawford Counties are generally considered 
one coal district, the mines being located in the northern part of Cherokee and 
southern part of Crawford County : they are properly considered one district, and 
in this report I combine the two counties and give the business and output as 
one district. 
There are twenty-five shafts (two of which are stopes); of these all but two 
are in operation. 
Located north of Columbus i 
Newcastle i 
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