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[[left-hand page]] [[preprinted]] March, SUNDAY, 21. 1897. [[/preprinted]]] Beautiful day - Sun shining brightly all day- Spring The daily papers state that Park Place Colliery, belonging to Leutz Lilly & Co., will be sold to the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. Some of todays papers, March 22, say it is false - [[handwriting/recorder changes]] Blue- Birds are here -- "Trailing Arbutus" has been found in full bloom on Hazleton Mountain - Very early- I am positive that there is none ^[[insertion]] in [[/insertion]] bloom on these mountains - [[underlined]] JMR [[/underlined]] [[End Page]] [[Start Page]] [[preprinted]] March, MONDAY, 22. 1897 [[/preprinted]] Tempt +42[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.30 @7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/a. " [[Ditto for: Tempt]] +54[[degree symbol]] ' ' [[Dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.23 @ 6 P.M. Pleasant this morning- Sky darkening at 10am - Raining gently from 10.30 to 12 oclock- Raining now and then this PM - 1- Both Collieries are idle - R.R. Co not running cars - 2- JMRichards is at work today- Home all of last week - sick - 3- We have a few men working at both Collieries. 4- Are cleaning out the coal pockets of both breakers. 5- Mike Meyers is on the sick list- not here since 19th 6- Received the heating pipe and connections to heat Vulcan breaker- The steam discharged from Jigs will be used - 7- Received a blue print of plan of placing pipe and fan in Vulcan Boiler House, for forced draft - Have not fully decided whether to [[strikethrough]] be [[/strikethrough]] equip the boiler plant there with a fan or not - (Sturtevant people we are corresponding with) 8- The new locomotive at Buck Mountain is now down in the 3rd East- Ran it in and brought out a trip one day last week. 9- The 3rd West Tunnel at B.Mtn. has struck the south dip- Rock dipping 7[[degree symbol]] south -
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aha! JMR has been sick! hence the handwriting difference.