The Riverside Library for Young People
Number 5
By HOMER GREENE
COAL AND THE COAL MINES
BY
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS BY
THE AUTHOR
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1898
Copyright, 1889.
By HOMER GREENE.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, U. S. A.:
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.
To
GILES POLLARD GREENE,
WHO WAS BORN ON THE DAY THIS BOOK WAS BEGUN,
AND WHOSE SMILES AND TEARS
THROUGH HALF A YEAR
HAVE BEEN A DAILY INSPIRATION IN THE WORK,
This Completed Task
IS NOW DEDICATED
BY
In treating of so large a theme in so small acompass it is impossible to do more than make anoutline sketch. It has been the aim of the authorto give reliable information free from minutedetails and technicalities. That information hasbeen, for the most part, gathered through personalexperience in the mines. The literature of thisspecial subject is very meagre, and the author isunable to acknowledge any real indebtedness tomore than half a dozen volumes. First amongthese is the valuable treatise on “Coal Mining,”by H. M. Chance of the Pennsylvania GeologicalSurvey. Other volumes from which the authorhas derived considerable information are the Stategeological reports of Pennsylvania, the mine inspector’sreports of the same State, and the “CoalTrade Annuals,” issued by Frederick E. Sawardof New York.
The author desires also to acknowledge his indebtedness[vi]for valuable assistance in the preparationof this work to John B. Law and AndrewBryden, mining superintendents, and GeorgeJohnson, real estate agent, all of the PennsylvaniaCoal Company, at Pittston, Pennsylvania,and to the officers of the Wyoming Historicaland Geological Society of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
HOMER GREENE.
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