The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-01-22


that, at this writing, the symptoms are more
favorable for his restoration to health.
"A large sleighing party from Mauch
Chunk passed through town on Thursday
evening.
The Coal Trade.
The leading interests in the anthracite
coal trade have made another movement
looking to continued concert ofaction. Some
weeks ago they announced determination
to work but three days in each week during
the month of January, in order, r,frst,to limit
production to about the demands Of the
market, and, second, to prevent large
stock Of coal going over into the new year
1881. By the time the month Of January
was half out the first of these objects was
accomplished-cu was becoming scarce and
the weather was very severe. The orders
for coal are now beyond the ability of the
operators to supply, and in order to prevent
q coal famine, and, what might happen,op- |
pressive prices for coal we are informed that
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, the |
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the |
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
road Company, the Central Railroad of New
Jersey, the Pennsylvania Coal Company
aud the Reading Railroad Company have
agreed to work from this day forward full
winter time, that is, six days in the week
and some nine hours per day which is about
as many hours as they can work at the
mines. With the weather we have had for
the past three or four weeks, the mining and
movement of coal is necessarily good deal
interrupted The coal as it is put into the
cars is wet, and before il is sufficiently
manipulated it is frozen solid, and in order
to further handle it a hole has to be bored
into it and a jet Of steam forced through it.
All this causes delay, and when to this is
added the fact Of a scarcity of cars, the coal
trade has naturally assumed threatening
position, and the outlook Of the trade for
the remainder of the year is most encourag-
ing. The indications now are that little, if
any coal will be carried over, and that the
early spring business will have to depend
almost entirely on current production. AS
compared with the early spring of 1850,
, when some two millions or more of tons
were carried over from 1879, the market
will probably be comparatively bare, and,
starting so, will rule active and firm to the
end of the year. As yet we hear OF no ad-
vance in the prices of coal by the leading
! companies engaged in the combination, vet
a the situation of the m irket is such that there
is little doubt an advance of price could be
9 enforced if it was unitedy pressed. This is
creditabe to to the trade, and goes far to
prove the sincerity of the coal combination
OF last year. when the purpose of monopo-
g ly was denied, and no more was claimed in
= price by producers from consumers than
/. fair compensation for the value included in
q a ton o. coal. The Miners Journal, with
, ourselve looks favOrably on the anthracite
y coal uade for 1881, and thus says. "The
supply aud demand thus kept pretty well
c equalizcd. 1t will be necessary to regulate
p supply during the winter months so that the
spring trade may open without any excess
OF coal at tide. Should this be done there is
, not much fear of the trade being able to take
- care of itself There was considerably more
It coal consumed last year than the year pre-
p vious, though the production fell of two
and a half million tons. A large quantity
= of the coal mined in 1879 was consumed in
1880, and the excess over the needs oG 1879
| H., al ,,,l; ;.l,
frequent stoppages necessary last year. The
present year opens with market practically
bare of coal in first hands, and this, together
with the natural increase in the demand
. gives promise of the production largely in
: excess Of 1879, or say closely approximating
30,000,0O0 tons. With prices maintained at
the figures of last year, and it would scarce
: y be judiciuus to raise them, the year 1881
will be the most prosperous of any since the
. opening Of the trade. The opening this yeal
is, therefore, in marked contrast to that O
i, previous years, when doubt and distrus
i marked the present and uncertainty aud
= dread was the effect of glance into tn,
70 future. The change fas been brought abou
\. by the voluntary action of the leading pro
ducers, for be it known that the year jus
v passed was the only one in the history o
~ the trade. in which they have voluntary
agreed to policy OF mutual concession, anC
"A it has been demonstrated to work SO salts
re iactorly that there is no disposition Il
/, abandon IT, Late on Saturday il was agreed
by the anthracite mining and transpor:in,
interests TO work full time this week (tha
. is, from the 18th to the 22d, inclusive), an'
then resume the present programme for th
~ rest Of the month. The stock olcoal on hant
oi at the tide-water shipping points, Decembe
'n 81, 1880, was 50O,27S tons; on November 60
'g 609,SS3 tons; decrease, lOg,5 500 tons. Tn,
e. amount on hand December 81, 1879, wa
6l3,5l2 tons, and on December 81, 1875
d. sol ,377 tons. OF the total production il
Ie 1880, IL ,4l9,279 tons, or 4S.72 per cent, wa
n n from Wyoming Region; 4,463,22l tons, 0
VI 1905 pc. cent, from Lehigh Region, aud 7,
30 554,742 tons, or 1928 per cent from schuyl
ne kill Region. Competitive tonnage includin
er' all coal which for final consumption or 4
nd transit reaches any point on Hudson rive
ST. or the Bay of New York, or which passe
!. out of the Copes of the Delaware, except pc
Ia and dust 1879. ll,slS,76s tons 1850, TO-
rts Oss, ,l59 tons.--Ledger 18th inst.
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u Religious NO1es.
GO NJ. E. CHURCH, J.P. Miller, pastor Preaci
hu ing 1880 a. m, l;l5 pm, Normal Glass. s
be school nt2n m Preaching t1nm Al