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![Miners Supply.JPG - MINER’S SUPPLY CO - Tin face lamp, 2 11/16 in. to lid, single spout, marked MINER’S SUPPLY CO, ST CLAIR, PA in football logo, (ex-Dottie Haynes collection and featured in her 1st Vol. of Miner's Oil Wick Lamps) ex-Tony Moon collection [The Miners Supply Company in St. Clair, PA was founded by Samuel H. Daddow and Jesse Beadle in 1866. The Miners Supply Store was located on South 2nd Street and provided a variety of mining equipment including their main product, the miner's safety squib. Daddow and Beadle invented and perfected the squib, a device used to ignite blasting powder. Their squib was patented on Sept. 6, 1870. Their squibs became more economical for the miners to purchase than to make their own and consisted of a paper cylinder filled with black powder, about 5 in. long and as thick as a lollipop stick. It had a two-inch slow-burning match at on end. When the match was lighted, about one minute elapsed before the fire reached the powder portion, acting as a sort of fuse to allow the miners to safely clear the area. The blasting squib shot to the back end of the inserted paper cartridge to explode the charge. Daddow and Beadle were the largest suppliers of squibs in the area. The squibs were made and packed by hand at a Daddow and Beadle factory on Franklin St. in St. Clair. What’s interesting is that all the squib manufacturing was done exclusively by 50-60 women workers producing 30,000 to 40,000 squibs daily that were sent to nearly every mining district in the U.S. During the 1880s, 90 percent of the squibs used in the U.S. were manufactured in St. Clair. The Miners Supply Company store operated till 1928 and the squib factory closed in Feb. 1929.]](Miners Supply.JPG) |
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| Miners Supply | MINER’S SUPPLY CO - Tin face lamp, 2 11/16 in. to lid, single spout, marked MINER’S SUPPLY CO, ST CLAIR, PA in football logo, (ex-Dottie Haynes collection and featured in her 1st Vol. of Miner's Oil Wick Lamps) ex-Tony Moon collection [The Miners Supply Company in St. Clair, PA was founded by Samuel H. Daddow and Jesse Beadle in 1866. The Miners Supply Store was located on South 2nd Street and provided a variety of mining equipment including their main product, the miner's safety squib. Daddow and Beadle invented and perfected the squib, a device used to ignite blasting powder. Their squib was patented on Sept. 6, 1870. Their squibs became more economical for the miners to purchase than to make their own and consisted of a paper cylinder filled with black powder, about 5 in. long and as thick as a lollipop stick. It had a two-inch slow-burning match at on end. When the match was lighted, about one minute elapsed before the fire reached the powder portion, acting as a sort of fuse to allow the miners to safely clear the area. The blasting squib shot to the back end of the inserted paper cartridge to explode the charge. Daddow and Beadle were the largest suppliers of squibs in the area. The squibs were made and packed by hand at a Daddow and Beadle factory on Franklin St. in St. Clair. What’s interesting is that all the squib manufacturing was done exclusively by 50-60 women workers producing 30,000 to 40,000 squibs daily that were sent to nearly every mining district in the U.S. During the 1880s, 90 percent of the squibs used in the U.S. were manufactured in St. Clair. The Miners Supply Company store operated till 1928 and the squib factory closed in Feb. 1929.] |  Original Image |
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