Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-01-15

tonished. Like the police IN the
"Pirates of Penzancs," it cant I'm.
dsrstand it at all |" At any rate,
after the CommerciaTs enthusiastic
encomiums of the blacklsg, it il lu-
dicrous to see it put on an air of in
jury when its precious citizens of this
persuasion are discussed.
THE knights of Labor Of Allegany coun.
ty are said to possess printing office. To-
Gated at Frostburg. Cumberland Timer.
If the Times meant to thus slur the
JOURNAL it should not hare done 30.
We presume there is nothing in the
way of the Knights of Labor owning
printing Office anywhere if they de-
sire to invest in such property, but
that they, or any other man or men
than those weekly published a. PRO
prietors," own or control any part or
parcel Of the JOURNAL or Office, ID
mistake of the first magnitude. We
admit a self-sppointsd commission to
take care, as far as we are able, of the
wages and good name of the miners
and of the interests of the region.
For the cause last named it was repre-
sented some months ago that the new
railroad company owned the JOURNAL
This was "said" on authority just -
good as the Times apparently indsf-
mite source Of information. A short
time prior to even this it was "said"
Judge Pearre owned a democratic
printing Office in Cumberland, but We
never before enjoyed occasion to make
the rumor matter worth publication.
THE Engineering and Mining Journsl,
in its report of the coal trade, reprinted
elsewhere, has fallen into the error Of sup.
posing the increased shipments Of the
Cumberland and Pennsylvania railroad
last year (316,3S7 tons over 1870 to be the
total increase in the shipments from the
Cumberland region during the year. The
actual increase over 1879 was 379, 710 tons.
The shipments from the Cumberland
region largely exceeded those Of any other
bituminons region last year. Clearfeld
xxytS
4O4,354 less than OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
land Neps.
And the Neus "has fallen into the
error of supposing" the Clearfeld to
be 404,354 tons behind the Georges
Greek region. The Clesrfeld region
works by the short ton, which, re-
duced to the long ton, our standard,
makes their actual development, COM
pared with ours, l,4os,6l5 tons, or
584,0S8 tons lsss-a farther difference
in our favor Of nearly 10000 tons.
1t is to be regretted that papers,
and trade papers particularly, do not
take such important differences into
consideration when making up their
statistics. Asa matter of comparison
the above statement is type Of all
that appears, and the outside world is
led to believe that Olearfeld is far
more formidable rival than that re-
gion really is. Certainly our own
papers should not be led into making
any ruins of our trade for C!earfeld
to build upon-at least no ruins larg-
er or verse than the similar stereo-
typed misnomer of our region and
trade.
But all this trouble originates pri-
marily with the shippers of our coal
and the line to which they deliver.
In short time the public will be
treated to ponderous table pur-
porting to be compilation from "of-
tcial sources OF the output OF our
coal for 1880, and it is safe to say it
will represent the total amount at
least at 100000 tons less than the &C.
al development.
So that between the short.to sys.
tenn in Clearfeld and the long-ton
in the Georges Greek, in addition to a
discount fat least Eve per cent. from
the actual to the ostensible, and the
wide publication of the so-cslled
comparison, it looks much like the
So called Cumberland coal" il bad
ly slaughtered institution in the house
of its friends.
Since the above was written the
Coal Trade Journal has reached US.
We clip the following paragraph in
confederation of our view of the fair
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