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[[left-hand page]] [[preprinted]] February. Friday, 19. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Tempt + 29[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.50 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/am [[Ditto for: Tempt]] +28[[degree symbol]] [[Dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.66 @ 6 PM A little colder than yesterday - Pleasant - 1- Both Collieries idle, and nearly everybody suspended. We have a squad timbering at Buck Mtn and another squad cleaning up the fall between the slopes 2 - At Buck Mountain- Are hoisting the rock and we have 3 men outside dumping it - The tunnel we keep working - 3- At Vulcan we have 3 men inside cleaning up and working at 1st West Batteries- Batteries [[strikethrough]] for to [[/strikethrough]] are being put in heasts where we run our wash water from outside into these empty heasts so as to catch the sediment- Have been doing this at Vulcan since the last resumption and started about the same time as Buck Mtn - 4- Harry Lattimore was here this morning by request of Mr Jones- He is to go out to Newark Ohio, to examine a locomotive that is for sale by A. S. Males & Co. of Cincinnati Ohio - If this locomotive is satisfactory we will buy it and place it on the 3nd Lift at Buck Mtn- 5- Everything quiet- 6 - "Emmigration" law was passed on the 17th inst [[End Page]] [[Start Page]] [[preprinted]] February. SATURDAY, 20. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Tempt +24[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.76 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/a " [[Ditto for: Tempt]] + 30[[degree symbol]] " " [[Dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.47 @ 4.50 PM Pleasant this morning- Commenced snowing 1 PM - ground completely covered at 5PM, and the snow is coming down steadily - Both Collieries idle - No cars Runnin g- Everything quiet - Everybody suspended until Tuesday next - [[underline]] Dan Thomas [[/underline]] was here this morning - Times are very hard over the whole country, especially so in Schuylkill Co - Collieries are only working quarter time - Prices of Bolts, nails & T Iron?, [[insert]] etc [[/insert]] are down - 80 & 7 1/2 % off Bolts - Nails 1.00 Keg net - Rails, two days ago $17. ton - coal is down also -