FROM MOUNTAIN TO HEARTH.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2159, 27 May 1914, Page 14

FROM MOUNTAIN TO HEARTH.

A RAPID PASSAGE. When unserceiwd coal is wanted for sliipmcnt the- tttltfo are run under the bins, a hydratiUts rain opens a <teor in. tlio floor, ami out poitrs tin* eoii!. In one portion of tho Wits, WtWrt-ei , , the .trucks cannot got iinteneatfj, and when tho doors are opened the coal fails oil to conveyor brfls which talis it .itttd drop into fh<s waiting lino ©f coal wagons. The Donnistai bins have befin builtto bold 3400 tons of co.i)--27ij0 of unscreened coal aiitl 700 of slack; Tliis quantity sounds knge, irtifc it does net appear largo when it is renwislicfed. timt the. output from tiro mhte lias njj as high as 1600 tons for one tlfty, and averages something 10.00 and 1200 tons. 'the f>ins, large as they are, will, therefore, hold only atoit three days' ouf.p«t. It is obvious that tho passage from the mine to the ran-, sinner is a rnpid c>ne, and tho coal that ono burns in tho grate to-night may a

teiy few days sgo Kavo formed an. integral part of the mighty mass of Mount Rockfoft. ~ . Tho next tiling to bo s&en is the pewcr-iiousft. Hero ate ftfvir Babcoek asid Willeox boilers of 120 horse-pawcr otsth, and from thesti is obtained iho motive power lor operating inmimcrablo Xangye engines to be fotind all over tho bins working the screens, conveyor beitsj efce. Tho boilers slso supply stcani for an' eleotrie light jlant fg.r the fllamination oS this part of tho cow* pany's Works, tfeo haulage truefes-, antl tho tttwn of Denniitort.. ; The licavk-st drain upon the-jfi, huwovcr, is uM3o by the main _ hauling big solid pair of IS'inoh cylinder nifiehtafls." the wire rops from the ttu-ja lines is passeti fear ttoea a:retevd the wi-JuKflg, .drum attached to this ehgtecs, and is a.fea wmifttj around an ihgeftioas tejision traok, xihich au-tonlaiieaHy ihoi'es t).adtwnrds and farwardsj. talsffl-g itp.al : !;' : tho slack on the rdpe, and fiiis prevontiiig any sud-tkit strains on tlw plnnt. -In an atljoi-fting ropnj on-.o fiflfo tlte ■eiigfuo n»fl-\Vosthigh6usc dyitomp of the %-!itiiig pianii (WW-volfc, 400. rt«|»rfc).. A visit to tlio o.stcn-sJv : e repaJr shops conipWes the inspection of this portisn <zt tlw wins! plant. There remains an int&re?tiiig instltiitiftn to tic- $aen* ' 'ftk is the lien's, eluMioase-, ofectecl and fti.wfehcd by the fioinpatty , , aftcl tl-ion liandeil (ivbi ett&ely: to a ccmniitteo tr-f fiittfiagtsmfeftt, Bfinv is to he fettnd a gOffd Kbrafy,, ft. tsjUiardroonti with tw& tables, ft card Mom, atit) a fecturo' roomer co-noert charsibe-r s «qui;ppcd witili a grand piano, oto. Hie eetot&aray* it sliould bo Betod., has -assist* e£ tho l!bra:vica, club roatts, and ban&sfn cadi tjl the townships qomtetted vrftit tli& ittiflea. . .