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[[Start Page]] [[preprinted]] May, SATURDAY, 22. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Tempt + 42 [[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.36 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]] /a " [[ditto for: Tempt]] + 72 [[degree symbol]] ' ' [[dittos for: and Barometer]] 28.32 @ 4 PM Cold last night - Collieries idle - Few men working at B Mtn inside at [[number symbol]]2 East Bottom Everybody suspended at Vulcan - Quiet - Mr Jones wrote H H Porter & Co at Pittsburg to day, asking for Quotations on 2 - Compressed air Locomotives, and also wrote to the Norwalk Iron Works Co., Norwalk, Connecticut, asking quotation on an air [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] compressor - This "starts the ball rolling" in the way of putting air locomotives at our BMtn Colliery - To be placed 3 [[superscript]] rd [[/superscript]] Lift - + Fourth [[End Page]] [[Start Page]] [[preprinted]] May, SUNDAY, 23. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Pleasant - Threatening Rain this PM - Commenced raining at 9 PM - Rained hard the greater part of night - [[End Page]]