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Excerpt from Eighth Annual Report of the State Mine Inspectors of the State of Missouri, for the Year Ending June 30, 1894 The past year has been the most disastrous to the business and to the miner ever experienced by the coal industry in this State. The alarming and serious conditions growing out of the business stagnation, and the prolonged, universal and unprecedented strike, are too well known to you to justify me in further men tion of them. I desire, however, to thank you for the timely and lively interest displayed and exercised by you during the season of unrest, uncertainty and alarm, and for the personal aid and assistance rendered me in many of the trying and per plexing situations which we passed through. I am, above all things, truly thank ful that the troublous times passed with so little of violence, and that the miners of the State have acted so wisely and prudently. Mr. J. W. Marsteller deserves special mention in connection with this report. He has at all times shown a deep interest in everything pertaining to the mining industry. He is accurate in cal cuiations and adept as a draughtsman. And to his fidelity and capability much credit is due for the statistical presentation, and his suggestions have been valuable in other directions; allot which I take pleasure in acknowledging. I thank you, and through you your oice assistants, for very many favors shown me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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