employed outside, 50, mostly Americans; average number of men employed underground, 200, all nationalities: average number of boys employed underground, 4. As shown by signatures to vouchers, there is an exceedingly small percentage of the men who can not write. The mine was worked about three hundred days during the year. An efficient and economical electric system supplies the power and light for the mine: 250 volts are carried on the haulage system. The power generated is equal to 250-horsepower. Four motors, with a total capacity of 200horsepower, are in use in the mine hauling the coal to the tipple. Two steam engines, one 125-horsepower Corliss and one 175-horsepower high speed, furnish power to run the dynamos.

Five Goodman coal-cutting machines are in use in the mine, and one rib-shearing machine. A Morgan-Gardiner electric drill is also used in shooting coal. A new Capell 11-foot ventilating fan, placed upon an air shaft 110 feet in depth and 200 feet from the entrance to the mine, was installed, at a cost of $6,000, during the fiscal year.

The town of Clarkville is dependent entirely upon the coal mine for its existence. The population, about 400, is composed entirely of those employed in and about the mine and their families. There are about 100 dwelling-houses in the camp, a large school-house. a hall in which the lodges hold their meetings, and a large boarding house under the management of the mine operators. A two-story brick store of extensive dimensions is under control of the mine owners. A complete stock of general merchandise is carried. A reading room is among the conveniences of the camp.

At this mine, as at all the coal mines throughout the Territory, the demand has been greater than the product of the mine. The deficiency in product is attributed to scarcity of miners. The product of the mine could be largely increased were sufficient labor obtainable.

RECORD OF INSPECTION.

October 24 and 25, 1900.—Inspected W. A. Clark mine, Clarkville. N. Mex. Air intake. 29,640 cubic feet per minute. Air well distributed, with good circulation at all working faces. No gas. Mine safely timbered. Ninety men underground. December 19, 1900.-Inspected W. A. Clark mine, Clarkville, N. Mex. Air intake 20,160 cubic feet per minute, well distributed, and ample supply traveling at all working faces. One hundred and sixty miners employed. No gas. Mine safely timbered.

February 14 and 15, 1901.-Inspected W. A. Clark mine, Clarkville, N. Mex. Air intake at mouth of main entry 21,135 cubic feet per minute, and intake from shaft in first east entry 7.500 cubic feet per minute; total, 28,625 cubic feet per minute. One hundred and seventy men employed under ground. Found air well distributed, and ample supply traveling at all working faces. No gas. Mine well timbered.

April 15 and 16, 1901.-Inspected W. A. Clark mine, Clarkville, N. Mex. Air intake 16,200 cubic feet per minute. One hundred and thirty men employed under ground. Air well distributed to all working faces. No gas. Mine safely timbered. Inspected machinery, cars, couplings, etc., in use at mine. Found same in safe condition.

June 12, 1901.-Inspected W. A. Clark mine, Clarkville, N. Mex. Air intake 21.400 cubic feet per minute. One hundred men employed under ground. Air well distributed, with good circulation at working faces. No gas. Mine safely timbered.

Prices paid for labor, mining coal, etc., by W. A. Clark, on the W. A. Clark mine, at Clarkville, McKinley County, N. Mex., during the fiscal year ending June 30,

1901.

Thickness of vein, 4 to 7 feet; mining coal, per ton of 2,400 pounds, mine run, 70 cents; mining coal, per ton of 2,000 pounds, mine run, 62 cents and 58 cents; driving main entry, per yard, $2; narrow work, per yard, $2 and $1; driving crosscuts, per yard, $1; driving main slope, when in natural coal, per yard, $2; turning rooms, $5.

Wages paid.-Pit bosses, per day, $5; shot firers. $3; machine men on coal-cutting machines, $3.25; helpers on coal-cutting machines, $3; track layers, per day, $3; company timbermen, per day, $3; general company men, per day, $3: company men underground, per day, $3: assistants to company men, per day. $3; gathering with horses, per day, $3; boys attending to doors, per day, $1; stable boss, per day, $2.50: electricians, per day, $3; linemen, per day, $3; motormen, per day, $3.25;

engineers, per day, $3; boiler men, per day. $2.50; weighmen, per day, $3.25; tipple men, per day, $2.50: blacksmiths, per day, $3.50 and $3; blacksmiths' helpers, per day. $2.50; carpenters, per day, $3.50.

Prices of powder and supplies for miners at the W. A. Clark mine.

Powder, per keg. $2.50: lamp oil, per gallon, 65 cents. Deductions: Doctors, per month, $1 blacksmithing, per month. $1; hospital, per month, 50 cents; house rent, per month, 2 rooms, $5; 3 rooms, $7; 4 rooms, $9.

GALLUP MINE.

This mine is situated at Gibson. McKinley County, N. Mex., about 3 miles northwest of Gallup, N. Mex. A spur 3 miles in length connects with the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad near Gallup station and facilitates transportation of the product of the mine. The mine is owned and operated by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, J. A. Kebler, general manager, with office in the Boston building. Denver, Colo.; W. M. Weaver, manager in charge at the company's mines, at Gallup, N. Mex.; Hugh McGinn, superintendent; P. A. O'Neal, pit boss. There are six coal seams of workable thickness and extent in this property, with an average cover of 100 feet on top vein. The seams are all exposed by outcrop, which shows the distance between the seams to be very irregular, from 7 feet to 30 feet apart. The thickness of these coal beds are as follows: No. 1, 6 feet; No. 2, 5 feet; No. 3, 5 feet: No. 3, 6 feet; No. 4, 4 feet; No. 5. 7 feet. Three of these veins, No. 3, No. 3, and No. 5, are worked in the Gallup mine. The mine is operated by slope, double entry, room and pillar system. Ventilation is by propulsion fan. A hoisting plant of 130 horsepower furnishes the haulage power and a 40-horsepower engine furnishes the force for ventilation. Depth of slope, 4.000 feet. Dip of coal seam, 5 to 14 degrees. Kind of coal. lignite; total output for fiscal year. 145,000 tons; used at mine, 3,000 tons; net output, 142,000 tons; estimated value of output at mine, $145,000. Average number of men employed outside, 20. Average number of men employed underground, 200. Number of days mine was operated during fiscal year, 250. Value of improvements during fiscal year, $10,000. The main slope was brushed and track relaid, a new machine shop added to equipment, and 15 four and six room houses built for use of employees. The product of the mine is sold in Albuquerque, N. Mex., Arizona. Los Angeles, and San Francisco. The production of this mine was very materially lessened, during the fiscal year, by a strike of the miners. The miners demanded recognition of the union and union rales, which the company claimed was equivalent to control of the management of the mine. The strike was unfortunate for the coal industry of New Mexico, as it arrested the increase of production of coal from the Territory. The camp at the Gallup and Weaver mines is called Gibson. It is very prettily located. contains about 100 comfortable dwellings, good schoolhouse, the education of the children receiving close attention from officers of the company, and the school generous financial aid from the company and its officers.

RECORD OF INSPECTION.

October 27, 1900.-Inspected Gallup mine. Air intake 39,405 cubic feet per minute. One hundred and fifty men employed underground. Found the ventilation of mine very imperfect, air not well distributed, and much of it lost through abandoned workings before reaching faces of present workings. Evidences of black damp. No CH,. Mine well timbered. Machinery in good condition. Instructed superintendent and pit boss to remedy defects in ventilation without delay.

December 17 and 18, 1900.-Inspected Gallup mine. Machinery in good condi tion. Air intake 38,820 cubic feet per minute. One hundred and fifty miners employed. Took air measurements at last crosscuts and faces. Found ventilation good; great improvement over last inspection. Called attention to bad methods of setting timbers practiced by some of the miners in rooms on sixteenth entry. Instructed that the ground be retimbered.

April 8, 1901.-Inspected Gallup mine. Air intake 46,200 cubic feet per minute. Air well distributed and circulation good at last crosscuts and working faces. One hundred and thirty men employed underground. Found some of the roadways, entrys, and rooms dry and an appreciable amount of dust in suspension in air. Instructed that all roadways, entries, and rooms be watered and kept moist. Instructed that a sprayer be placed in strong air current of intake to saturate the air as it enters the mine. The long interval since prior inspection of this mine was due to the fact that the mine was shut down on account of a strike.