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[[Start Page]] [[preprinted]] September, WEDNESDAY, 1. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Tempt +66[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.58 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/ [[ditto for: "Tempt"]] +68[[degree symbol]] [[dittos for: "and Barometer"]] 28.47 @ 7 PM Beautiful day - Both Collieries worked 9 hours - Everything quiet - Busy here in office - Colliery Books came in this forenoon - Will pay on the 11th inst - W.H.L. is away on vacation - Will make us hustle - Wrote Thompson Derr & Bro. that we are now ready to have our 5 new blocks of houses at Buck Mountain insured - Strike up at Van Winkles Collieries, Colerami, et al - Men want higher wages - Strike at L&H Audenried Collieries, is still on - This strike started by Drivers wanting pay for taking their mules, after quitting time, to a stable about one mile away - Their request was ignored, hence the strike of every body - Demands now are numerous; such as doing away with Company Doctor, higher wages, etc, and the dismissal of the Genl Supt - [[End Page]] [[Start Page]] Fan Draft at B Mtn started today [[preprinted]] September, THURSDAY, 2. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Tempt 68[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.45 @ 7 [[superscript]] 3 [[/superscript]]/AM [[ditto for: "Tempt"]] +69[[degree Symbol]] [[dittos for: "and Barometer"]] 28.52 @ 6 PM Rained hard late last night - Pleasant this morning - Collieries worked 9 hours - BMtn is short of coal and Vulcan has some to spare - Have started to mine some coal in the 3' Lift at Vulcan. The strikers at Van Winkle Collieries, raided Coleraine, Milnesville, stopped them, and all the Washeries; stopped Beaver Meadow, and the last account we got of them, they were marching to stop Silver Brook - So it is reported - Fan Draft Plant started to day at B Mtn - [[End Page]]