Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-09-23

last week total Of 56,9ll tons car.
ries this district to 2,028.95 tons for
the year very large business, and
proof that the coal is liked by some
one. Prices are reported as very un-
even, however, and the rates said to
be taken by some houses in this trade
are far below profit, if the tolls are
not shaded to meet such exigeneies OF
trade.
New York Coal says "the Clearfeld
operators are again e1periencingathe
trouble which hampers their business
every fall. The heavy traffic of the
Pennsylvania Railroad prevents their
obtaining and moving the requisite
number of cars, and all the leading
firms in the trade here now report
scarcity of coal in consequence there.
Of. Some have been buying Cumber-
land coal to fill a portion of their
contracts. The cheap coal has en-
tirely disappeared, and, though the
prices of standard Goals. are really I'M
changed, we quote nominally higher
figures, or $435@$4,50. For Cum
berland coal, a fair inquiry is counter
balancing larger receipts, and has
checked an apparently weakening
tendency $4.60@4,65 is asked and,
probably, obtained in most cases."
The same paper reports from Phil
adelphia that "the bituminous trade
is brisk, and everything is satisfactory
except the supply Of cars, of which
there is continued scarcity"
Also from Chicago that "there is no
change to note in the market for btu
minous Goals, which continues quiet.
A fair demand is reported for the
standard grades of Western Goals, and
the trade in Cumberland and other
Eastern smithing Goals is moderate,
the supply of the latter being limited.
One shipper of Cumberland coal made
a very large contract during the
week for delivery in October and
November, the size of the order and
the date of deliveries indicating that
the operators in that region are not
only in a situation to mine their
full average outputs, but that they
are not SO over.crowded with orders
nearer home but that they are ready
to give this market all the coal it
requires"
| And it's Boston writer says that "as
a matter of fact, the number who are
willing to pay more for broken an
thracite than for Cumberland or
Clarified bituminous is constantly
diminishing in this maaket." Bust
ness and prices reported unsatisfacto.
ry, however.
NEW Coal FIRM-ChangeS of Resi-
dence.-The Piedmont papers report
the following in substance: Three
Ct our best known coal men-Mr. FL.
Crawford Black formerly agent of the
Maryland Union Coal Company
Capt. John Sheridan, superintendent
of the Elk Garden nine, and Mr..
John Wilson, jr., general sale agent
of the Piedmont Coal and Iron Com
pany-hsve formed a co.partnership
under the firm name of Black, Sheri-
dan g. Wilson, for the mining and
shipping of coal. This firm viii have
two offces-one in Baltimore and the
other in Piedmont-the latter to be
left in charge of Mr.. John G. Glover.
Mr.. Wilson former assistant, while
Mr.. Wilson with Mr.. Black goes to
the Baltimore Office. Capt Sheridan
will be superintendent of the Potomac
Coal Companys mine at Barton.
The new firm holds large moneyed
intereat in the mines they represent
and they have already made some
large sales of coal. They will have
the sales of coal of the Potomac Coal
Company, Piedmont Coal and Iron
Company, and Consolidated Coal and
Mining Company. The Piedmont
company's coal has an established
reputation. The Piedmont Coal and
Iron own nearly 5000 acres of coal
at Barton and Bloomington, in Mary
land, and the Consolidated Coal and
Mining Company's Ocean colliery is
one of the best gas coal mines in West
Virginia.
Opp-FELLowsHIP. - TIE sixty
fourth annual session of the Sover-
eign Grand Lodge of Odd-Fellows was
opened Monday in Baltimore, the
seat of the order, with beftting cere-