Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-15
The following statement was issued yesterday
Raceints of fractional currnncv for
The Miners.
Prospects OF Resumption Immediately,
ETC.


PHILADELPHIA, May 14.-The Pottsville Mi
ners Journal says; The resumption in all the
coal regions is now fast becoming fixed fact
In the Schuylkill work will generally be re-
sumed on Monday. The Independent colleries
of the Wyoming region are also preparing to
resume, and i'll the regions of Columbia and
Northumberland counties special agreements
have been made. The miners of the Lehigh
coal and navigation company will also resume
on Monday. The anthracite trade is 2,733, O04
tons behind last year. Last year we increased
1,716,690 tons over 1869. Had no suspension
taken place and the offer made by the coal Ope-
rators and companies been accepted, the market
this year would have taken from one and half
to two millions of tons increase at the low
rates, which would have removed nearly all the
surplus production from the market, so that an
other years increase would have absorbed the
whole increase at better prices. AS it is, there
will be no increase of anthracite this year, and
we may fall short of last year, and the whole
increase will lbe made up from foreign bitumn-
GUS coal, so that the anthracite trade will be in
the same condition next year as regards its abi-
ity to overstock the market.
From the best information there is trans
porting capacity equal TO $4,000 to $50 900 tons
a week during the balance of the season. The
whole supply of anthracite coal sent to market
last year was 1896, 437 tons We have already
sent 1852, AIS tons to market, and for the re-
mander of the season we can send at least
100000 tons, on an average, up 10 December,
which would about bring it up TO the supply of
last year. If prices should rule at about 81 so
put on board at Philadelphia and say S. at ship
ping ports OF New York, we think the market
will take about last years supply; but if they
should from any cause whatever run above these
prices on an average, we doubt very much
whether the market would fake within half or
three-fourths of million of the quality sent to
market last year, and the balance would be
made up entirely with bituminous coal, the in
crease of which is already from all sources Mt
least 400 900 tons. 1t is, therefore, much better
for all interests to have a regular business with
fair prices for the balance of the year. than
huctuating business with higher rates and di-
minished consumption"
SCRANTON, Pa, May 14.-The miners of the
worklngmen's benevolent association at Hyde
Park, near this city, the headquarters of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western company's
workmen, talk sneeringly of the proposal made
by Thomas Dickson, president of the Delaware
and Hudson canal company, to the men of the
two companies. They declare that they will
take no notice of it. The miners of the Della
ware and Hudson canal company held a meet
ing at Providence this morning and voted up
on the proposition, which was rejected. Mr.
StorrS, general coal agent of the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western railroad assured the labor
ers OF that company that il the miners refuse to
accept the proposition the mines should at once
be thrown open to laborers and they should be
invited to enter the mines upon the terms
named by Dickson. In the present temper of
the miners there is no doubt that serious dis
turbances will ensue if the laborers enter the
mines. The Welch miners here say they will
never work again until better terms are offered.
All is quiet.
Later.-The general resumption of mining
here has been considerably postponed by the
action of the corporations, and uprisings and
disorders are not unlikely to follow these COM
plications.