JOHN H. EVANS. SHENANDOAH, SCHUYLKILL CO, PENNSYLVANIA.
The Scranton Tribune recently gave an interesting account of the great Maxwell shaft which is being sunk at Ashley for the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Company, for which work John H. Evans and Owen B. Williams, of town, are the contractors. The workmen have now reached the rock after sinking through twenty-six feet of quicksand. The shaft is the largest in the world, being 71 feet long and 29 feet wide. The outside cribbing is now being put into place, and inside the cribbing is to be built a solid stone wall 6 1/2 feet thick. An outer cribbing will be built of Georgia pine timbers, giving a clear space in the shaft 54 feet feet long and 12 feet wide.This will be divided into six compartments, four of which will be fitted with cages for hoisting coal. Two of the cages will reach the Baltimore vein at a depth of 640 feet and then will strike the Red Ash vein at a depth of 940 feet. A compartment of the shaft, 6 x 4 feet, will be used as a pumpway and the remaining space as an airway, giving 168 square feet. The shaft will be sunk to the foot of the old No. 8 slope, where tunnels are being driven, a distance of 1,000 feet to the Ross and red ash veins.
Until the present time the work of sinking has ben necessarily slow, owing to the delicate operation of sinking through the quicksand, but now that the rock is reached the work will go ahead at a rapid pace. The shaft will be the largest in the world.
Republican and Herald ~ May 19th, 1892.
JOHN H. EVANS. SHENANDOAH, SCHUYLKILL CO, PENNSYLVANIA.
John H. Evans, the well known tunnel contractor of toen, died at his residence, 36 East Centre Street, at half past five o'clock Thursday. He had been ailing for several weeks. He first had an attack of pneumonia. About five weeks ago he had a relapse. Although Mr. Evans had been very ill of late his death was a sudden shock to the family. The physician in attendance attributed the death to bronchitis and congestion of the liver and left lung. Mr. Evans was nearing his 59th year He was born in Carnarvonshire, North Wales, and came to this country 29 years ago, and had been a resident of town for 17 years. He was a member of the American True Ivorites, Shenandoah Lodge, No. 501, and Shenandoah Valley Encampment, No. 258, I.O.O.F., and president of the Citizen's Building and Loan Association. The funeral will take place on Sunday, 22nd, at 3 p.m. Internment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery.Weekly Herald ~ May 21st, 1892.
JOHN H. EVANS. SHENANDOAH, SCHUYLKILL CO, PENNSYLVANIA.
The funeral of the late John H. Evans took place at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon from his late residence 36 East Cartre Street.The attendance was very large and prominent mining officials from Scranton, Pottsville, Wilkes-Barre, Hazleton, St. Clair, Mahanoy City, Girardville, Ashland, Mt. Carmel, Centralia, Shamokin and New Philadelphia were present.
The remains were encased in a handsome cloth covered casket.
The pall bearers were: John L. Williams, Shamokin; Edward Reese, Centralia; J. J. Bradigan, John W. Morgan, William Stein and Henry L. Jones, of this town.
The services were held at the residence, Rev. William Powick, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Rev. Owen Enoch, of the Welsh Congregational Chucrch officiating.
Members of the Welsh singing societies were present and rendered hymns under the directorship of Prof. D. T. Jenkins. The True Ivorites of America, Shenandoah Valley Encampment, I.O.O.F., all of which the deceased was a member, were present and attended the services at the grave.
The remains were interred in Odd Fellows Cemetery. The funeral was the largest seen in the town for some time and was a source of consolation to those who were so suddenly plunged into grief by the death.