APPOINTMENTS SINCE THE CREATION OF THE DEPARTMENT.- Concluded. The Inspector of Mines. David E Evans, R... Meigs J. B. Foraker, R.. May 1, 1888... Feb. 30, 1891..3 years. Stark 1, 1887.. 1, 1888. 66 30, 1888.. 1 year. Reappointed. .... 1, 1891... Aug. 11, 1890.. 2 yrs. 3 mo. 11d. " Jan. 17, 1898.. July 15, 1898.. 6 months. ... July 15, 1898.. 15, 1901.. 3 years. 15, 1898. April 30, 1900.. 1 yr. 9 mo. 15d| Incumbent. 15, 1899.. July 15, 1901.. 2 years.. Incumbent. .... July 1, 1900.. The Inspector of Mines. It might be of interest in connection with the history of the Mining Department to note the following facts: When the department was first created there were in operation about two hundred mines. The statistics received for the year 1900, disclose the following. One thousand and one mines in operation, employing thirty one thousand seven hundred and two men; amount of coal produced, nineteen million, four hundred and twenty-six thousand, six hundred and forty-nine tons; number of mining machines in use, three hundred and fifty-eight; amount of coal produced by mining machines, nine million, four hundred and fifty-seven thousand, seven hundred and seventy-seven tons; one million, four hundred and seventy-three thousand, and eighty-eight tons of fire clay mined. THE INSPECTOR OF OILS. CHIEF INSPECTOR OF OILS, 1900-I. JOHN R. MALLOY. FRANK I. BAIRD.. .Inspector of Southern District. J OHN R. MALLOY, Inspector of Oils for the Second District, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, July 16, 1856. When five years of age his mother died, after which his father enlisted in the army, serving until the close of the rebellion. Attended the public schools of New Haven until 1867, when he moved to Ohio with his father, and the following year took up his residence at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers near Dayton, of which his father was an inmate. Young Malloy remained at the Soldiers' Home, attending school until the summer of 1869, when he was obliged to leave, the law establishing the Home not permitting children of soldiers to become inmates. He returned to Connecticut and was apprenticed to the printer's trade in the office of the Meriden Daily Republican. Upon the establishment of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Xenia, in 1870, he returned to Ohio and attended the Home school until the summer of 1872, when, having arrived at the age of sixteen years, he was discharged from the Home. Was appointed a page in the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1873-74 by President (afterward Chief Justice) Morrison R. Waite. Was recording clerk of the House of Representatives of the 62nd General Assembly and assistant clerk during the 67th and 68th General Assemblies. Was a member and president of the Ohio State Board of Pardons in 1890-91, which position he resigned on being elected clerk of the House of Representatives at the organization of the 70th General Assembly, which he held through the 71st and 72nd General Assemblies. Was appointed Inspector of Oils for the Second District of Ohio, by Governor Nash, May 15, 1900. |