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[[preprinted]] October, FRIDAY, 1. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Tempt +62[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.68 @ 7 3/A " [[ditto for: Tempt]] +64[[degree symbol]] ' ' [[ditto for: and Barometer]] 28.55 @ 6PM Beautiful day - Both Collieries worked 9 hours - The Artesian Well at Vulcan, in ravine east of Ville, is now down 346 feet, and are in green sand stone - Water is about 26 feet below the surface - Miners Journal, Pottsville, contained an account of the Law department of Pennsylvania instructing the Commissioners of each County to Collect the Alien Tax until such time it is declared unconstitutional - Some employer in Philadelphia write the State Treasurer as to what he should do in the matter - We have given it back to Aliens that which we have collected, and at present we do not intend to Collect it - Park Place called up this AM and wanted to know what we were going to do about it and we told them - Said they intended to give it back to-day - Our Allotment for Oct is 75 Cars per day - An increase of 15 Cars [[end page]] [[start page]] [[preprinted]] October, SATURDAY, 2. 1897. [[/preprinted]] Tempt +50[[degree symbol]] and Barometer 28.72 @ 7AM " [[ditto for: Tempt]] +54[[degree symbol]] ' ' [[ditto for: and Barometer]] 28.90 @ 6PM Very cool - no steam heat - Both Collieries worked 5 hours - Have about 15 empty cars at each Colliery, after loading out all the coal in the Breaker Condemned 3 1/2 Cars Nut; had 6 Cars nut standing this morning - Reprepared 6 this PM - Pay day - Mr Kishbaugh and Mr Lattimore at Vulcan. Mr. Jim Kishbaugh and Mr. Cunningham at BMtn - Our output per day fell behind last month at Both Collieries - BMtn's is away below the 1000 ton per day mark - Vulcan averages a little over 1000 tons per day - Short of miners at both Collieries - At Vulcan we have 127 parties and at Buck Mountain only 86 - The new locomotives we trust will bring BMtn up to its old mark - Everything is quiet at Hazleton - Governors Troop and one battalion of soldiers are still stationed there - The strike is past - Wage question has not been settled between miners and Lehigh & Wilkesbarre, but soon will be - Not much danger of another strike at present -