Report of Thomas Brown, Inspector of Mines for Allegany and Garrett Counties

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Excerpt from Report of Thomas Brown, Inspector of Mines for Allegany and Garrett Counties: For the Year Ending December 31, 1883Another cause of the slowness of production in this reglon n1ay be found in the fact that until of late years there was but one rail line of transportation to the seaboard and eastern markets, and that during four months of each year, when navigation on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was closed, the region was without any competing line of transp ortation what, ever. This state of things naturally left this coal region to contend with a high and discriminating rate of freights, which depressed trade and greatly reduced the coal output during the winter months. The partial, and in some instances total sus pension of business during the winter months, practically re duced the working year of our miners to eight months, which circumstance was eagerly seized upon and made use of by them in insisting upon and enforcing a higher rate of wages than that prevailing elsewhere. It 1s a plain proposition that a year's work in other coal fields will produce more coal than eight months' work in our coal field in the same number of mines and' with a like number of miners. This condition of things is also a cause of the deficiency of output from our mines.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.