| Show M f HOUSES t T Tr TO r PREVENT t t J m SINKING I Many Dwellings Undermined By Anthracite Colliery Work At Centralia WARNINGS TO HOME OWNERS Took chaises In III C of ut Their flares of ot Abode Where Trouble Was U Aim Certain Centralia Pa 1 Aug This little an anthracite town Just under the clouds Is 11 suffering from too much advertising and notoriety Tide This Is la the practically unanimous opinion of ot Its Us leading sill citi citizens zen acne The town has his troubles of at its It II own on That Is II fully full full admitted Hut It thinks Itself lI t well able If Ie let alone to work there thle th 0 things out In Its II own on way fa Centrulla Is I built over oer A cool coal buln and andl andIs l I Is experiencing surface disturbances which here tip and elsewhere r are the tho nor nur normal mel mal results of or the taking out of t r coal Will This Thin l la II the IIII chronic trouble from which the town lawn has hUd suffered more mor or lees IBM al almu mu trust t from the beginning of or Its history ax IlIA other mining towns lowns have haO The no notoriety Is b a new he and acute attack and Just Juat at present ralla Is IB more ills dis disturbed over ov r the latter than Iban the former fanner to their daylight proportions the tarts acts faN about Centralia art are interest interesting ing but Lut not nOI sensational l the town H ls I a l containing ten Ian workable le anthracite vein nil all tributary to 10 ih the colliery of or the Lehigh Valley Coal company compan 1001 pan The Tho colliery collier I Ivery Ic very 1 old lId end and nd many of ot the power lower veins I have hae been n practically worked out leav leaving leA leAIne leaving ing Ine th the thA uppermost the Primrose vein and the Ibe Holmes vein as the mot moat of ut supply first Ing In In the Holmes vein lw has hall ben been b n com corn cornI I end and nd with the robbing of the pillar In iii the ordinary pro progress gress of I second mining some surface disturbances s are surd mid to follow tollo The pitch h of ot the Primrose vein eln moreover i iI la I almost perpendicular The top lop rock I at the outcrop Is 18 In and andi i when the coal conI begins t to 10 run ten that II li III I whenever wh the Iho vein It Is worked ork treble Irble portions of ot surface along the Iha theline theline line o ot of the Iho outcrops are arc unavoidably I pulled lull Id In HOUSEHOLDERS ONLY OI OWN O SUn SUR SURFACE FACE l CJ Tho real fool lands of oC Centralia are and andIon lon Ion long have hac been owned by the Locust Mountain Coal company As A early as asI UM H this company began ceiling lots I In what li is now chiefly to miners on partial payments for tor or home hone homebuilding building purposes In all II the th deeds 1 the Locust Mountain company carefully re rl rev Hn to Itself the right to mine o of oC opal roal that If is to 10 undermine the Ih property rl and protected by b H clauses Iau es esIn In tho deeds against liability te for or r Inu rills rifts to II tho the surface resulting In other words it sold eold 1 the surface but bul refrained from Crom rom telling selling with lIh It what hat Is 18 known In lay Ill as the right of support The prices received r for tor or the land were small mall presumably beuf of ot the lira hm Itea nature of ot the grant rant During the mining of the lower veins reins the surface was 81 not n affected by bythe bythe bythe the customary settling with nh which all cool towns are lire Every Lr now 11 and then there would be a n HS JIB It In is willed railed and nomo would rould find the more floor or window sashes out OUI o ot of plumb or his might crack or oven IlIn tall pall These TheM things are lite arene ne In the mining regions rf lon DUI But with the Iho working o of oC th the uppermost veins erne the disturbances tI be bc became name came necessarily greater Michael Madden tho the holder o ot of one cf of e t the deeds mentioned brought suit Full for tor or damages damA elC and his case call was WIS pending for tor or a Il long longtime longUm longtime time Um He lie was Wall denied damages In the lower tower court ourt and this decision was wu a at by b the Supreme court of or Penn Pennsylvania sylvania the court of ot last resort report on the ground round that thai an fin express reservation o ot of all ull ul mining privileges together with the right o of oC support was Wal a I valid linn tallon of ot the grant and the Iho rattles parties I must mut abide by their bargain WARNINGS AnI GB OF DANGER Mining in the Primrose and Md Holmes Holme veins elM lo Is accordingly progressing and about S householders hou have bat been not noti fl tb ltd l by b tho the Lehigh I Valley company I which leases the real coal rights from rom the owner the Locust Mountain Coal corn com company pany perny fin that they are In danger and all MuM remove their houses houes to places Of ot safety r t On In the tb receipt rl of oC thiS these notice leading citizens of ot held 1 a meeting at nt which various plans plane were proposed t d Finally I a II committee of or nine nIno wax was with power t Iq j take taki any an artiest It deemed fit nt Mr Ir William B l 1 lDavis Davis DaI a wealthy citizen ot of the town and the owner o ot of about half hal of the houses hu es which will 11 ultimately be at I Is III chairman The rhe plan Illon It is to 10 confer conter with Ith the Lehigh I Valley all r officials beginning with the tho division dent and ani If seeking an In III with ten Gen Manager S D War tiner riner and perhaps with till WI higher oil om Mal coals with a view to securing assistance from rom the company In bearing the lo lolu sustained lu AID All IN 1 N m CS Meanwhile It In th the only anI rates rases la 1 o ot of hard chip occurring thus tar far ar the th Iehl h Val Valley Icy ley 1 company r had already before public attention was wan in drawn to the t hf matter shown hown Its Intention to 10 go In beyond mere merr legal ligal requirements In dealing with the be t people o of oC The fh home of ot Mrs I Ill Heat a widow Ido was wa f The company therefore moved her house to 10 i I a safe laCe spot spat better located l at than her for tor fori torI former i mfr mer building presented her ller with frith a B I deed deJ t I p the new location 11 and put her heri j i hou house e in excellent repair Mr Ir and aud Mrs In InI Maloney an nn aged age couple sil l I I have been accorded a similar I prig ie lilt legs e Mi Iu though herlot her hel herlot lot had haJ n never neer ver boon een paid for was nan given givena a II n new lIew house hOIle better than limn Ih her old one and admits that she he ha has greatly ed cod by IW th the change Th coal 1111 nl ray pay So per cent of ot the taxes in the th township ton hl of or which Is a II part There are lire about 00 10 separate parate properties In I the town one of ot which may mayy mil Ue bf affected by the tho run rull of at the coal under the outcrop outcrops Under Inder Its ItA lease I lM from the Mountain Coal company the tile Lehigh Valley Palley alle Coal company must mine the coal Ih the lessor INor e will have an all action for tor loss IH o ot of royalties ct t to 10 mine the coal underlying Centralia would result re In a n lore of or more than tons ton 1 a II tide Ude water value lIlue of ot near ly I |
