Frostburg mining journal., 1880-07-24
WHAT TIE TRADE PAPERS SAY.

WHAT TIE TRADE PAPERS SAY.
The Cumberland trade is extreme
ly dull the Clearfeld region, being
fostered by the more enlightened pol
icy of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, is able to put coal in Boston
much cheaper than the Cumberland
companies, notwithstanding the supe-
rior natural advantages the Maryland
district enjoys in shortrail transporta-
tion and large coal-yeins. The Cum
berland operators recently respectful
ly begged their miners--as became
servants addressing their maaters--to
consider the condition of the trade,
and meroifnlly save the operators
from ruin by reducing their wages for
mining from 65 to 80 cents per ten,
as the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
company is collecting 80 cents per
ton more than last year for transpor-
tation, and the canal increased its
tolls 25 cents, and neither has made
any reduction. The intelligent min
ers answered their humble servants,
the operators, in the following class
ical and contemptuous manner:
Here follows the Miners Reply
and Resolutions.-ED.
Of course, the operators have no
answer to make but simplJ hang
their heads in shame at the reprooi
their childish action brougt down up
on them. The miner lords it grandly
in the Cumberland region but it
would almost seem as if, with the aid
of the traditional policy Of the B. &
0. r. r., he would soon, like McOau-
lays New Zealauder, b, able to sit in
majestic and hungry solitude on the
ruins of some abandoned mine and
contemplate the mischief his own fol-
ly and that of the railroad company
brought about. Indeed, if the Cum
berland region were to be limited to
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and
if its mines were to continue under
the absolute control of the miners
unions, it would not be difficult to
predict its fate Fortunately, better
times seem to be in store, when the
several items OF cost included in min
ing and transportation will be reg0-
lated in accordance with those Of RI
val regions, and enable the Combar-
land to hold the place lis natural adj
vantages entitle it to.
The Clear6eld region is marketing
large quantity Of coal, and easily
takes the eastern market from the
Cumberland companies. For exam
pie, we hear of a sale Of some $4,000
tons to the Boston & Maine r.
R. at figure which is supposed TO
represent about SAFE in Boston,
Engineering and Mining Journal, Ju-
ly II.
Bituminous coal is steady and while
there are many reports as TO low fig
ures being realized, the companies
themselves claim that they are get
ting all that the price-cuvrenis quote,
Whether this is so OF not remains for
the actual buyer Of coal to find out,
but the tonnage reports show that
there is a very heavy output, and as
there is no heavy increase in thu
sales of this variety Of coal along the
seaboard to take place Of Anthracite,
the tonnage must be placed along the
line or to local manufacturers, who
are more actively employed this year
than they we're. The Cumberland
operators want reduced cost at the
point of shipment to enable them TO
compete with Clearfeld coal 1t was
rumored few weeks ago chat wages
were to be reduced to forty cents PER
ton in the Clearfeli region, but we
hear nothing of 1t at present. The
men of the Cumberland region ap-
pear to be in the hands of parties who
can talk and write pretty sharply,
but the difference between tho en-
ployers and employed may be easily
adjusted, if ptoper means to that end
are adopted.--Coal Trade Journal,
July q.
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