The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-12-15

| lnIOuSlOub tdVu year bllull Dc uOJ less llluI
| $4,000 for each one per cent of the yearly
production embraced in the annual quota o.
| such company and provided further, that
| at the end of each year, and after the final
settlement of the business of such year and
the payment of all penaltics,if any incurred
the total sums then remaining to the credit
of the several companies shall be repaid Ia
them in cash. All payments out of the said
fund, whether for penalties or for repayment
of original contributor, shall be made by
check drawn by the order of the Board Of
Control, signed by its treasurer and counter
signed by its president.
Fourth. The business year shall begin
with the LIST of January and close with the
3lst of December in each year, and each
company shall furnish full weekly and
monthly statements of tonnages with such
details as shall be required from time to time
by the Board of Control
EtH. That if at the end of any month
any company shall have exceeded its quota
for such month, it shall forthwith pay at the
rate of 81 % per ton for each ton of such
excess, such payments to be made out of the
fund TO the credit of such company, by
checks rs above provided for account Of
such company or companies as may have
fallen behind theirquota for the said month !;
and if from any cause the fund so to the
credit of such debtor company shall have
been exhausted, the said company shall
forthwith make up in case the amount of
the deficiency. 1t being, however, expressly
provided, that if in consequence of refusal
to produce, or if on account of n strike or
lockout, riot or frcshet, any Campany or
companies are enable to produce their quota
and thus the tonnage of the remaining
IN tIa /
may be greatly out of its proper proportion
of the aggregate such company so exceeding
its proportion shall not be called upon to
pay any penalty due to any excess of quota
except upon such amount as is in excess of
the actual number of tons which at the
commencement Of the year had been allotted
to such company as its monthly tonnage for
the month in which such excess occurs
Strth. That the entire tonnage of coal as
aforesaid she'll be divided into two heads,
VIZ, competitive and local. That competi-
tive tonnage shall include all coal except
that to the foreign countries and the Pacific
coast as above named, which reaches the
Hudson river or New York bav, or which
passes out of the Capes of the Delaware or
through the Delaware and Raritan Canal.
and that the minimum prices for all such
competitive tonnage shall be established
monthly by the Board of Control, beginning
in each year with the month of April and
gradually advancing in price until %intrr,it
beng understood that no decrease of price
shall be made after the month of December
until the following April provided, how
ever that for manufacturers season contracts
may be taken at fixed prices for the year. to
be established by the Board of Control at the
beginning of each season. For sales of
competitive tonnage no higher commission
to be paid to agents than ten cents per ton,
but upon all local tonnage each company to
have the right to establish such prices as it
pleases.
Serenh. The Board of Control shall have
no power to order absolute suspensions of
mining except in the month of December,
January, February and March, and then
only be vote Of at least sixty-five out of
the hundred.
If the above plan is approved it is recon-
mended that entire suspension of mining
take place from December "a, 1877, TO Jaun-
a1y II, 1873, inclusive from JanuiTy 81 to
February l6, inclusive and from March 4
to March %, inclusive.
This proposition is so clear and so explicit,
and, so far as we can detect, so Just to all
parties crncerned, that it seems to us an
agreement ought to be readily arrived at on
the bases of the points presented It is sup
posed that the coal trade of the present year
has at best barely brought in new dollar
for an old dollar, aiiording profit to no one.
This is not desired even by consumers, and
cannot be continued by producers. If but
fifty cents per ton be added to the actual cost |
of production this current year, an increase
so small as scarcely to be felt by the user, it !
would give handsome cash increase to the
coal producers and carrying companies, say,
to the Reading Railroad Company over three
md quarter millions of dollars, to the Le-
high Valley Railroad Company over two
millions of dollars, and so on a like increase
o each of the several companies. An active
md prosperous coal trade,it is believed, will,
more directly than almost any other incen-
i've, give vitality to every other pursuit and
lift the traffic of the country from the general
anguor in which it is now so sunken.-
Cedger, Monday.
The folio wing table shows the quantity of coal
mpped over the Lehigh Valley Railroad for the
week ending Dec. 6th, 1877 and for the year as