Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1882-04-22
BEAUTY is only skin-deep.
A DELAY of an hour was caused by
engine No. 80 jumping the track at
the G. & P. depot Monday.

fairs in this region remains practical
ly unchanged A vast majority of
the householding miners have turned
their attention to gardening and
property Improvement and the effect
produced is good. If work were re-
sumed at once the cessation in many
instances could not be wholly re-
garded as lost time.
An over euterprising correspondent
of Baltimore daily having last week
disseminated the sensational iptelIi-
gence tnat the Grand Lodge of the
knights Of Labor had disapproyed
the action of the Georges Greek
miners, it was deemed proper that
the report should be contradicted.
Accordingly on Saturday afternoon
last Mr.. Fl. H. Bepgough, of Pitts.
burg telegraphed as follows:
PITTsBURG, Pa, April Is.
To the MINING JOURNAL:
Statements published in eastern news
papers that suspension by Maryland
miners was declared illegal by Grand
Officers of Knights of Labor is false. By
authority of Grand Secretary Layton.
Advices from Clearfeld conflict.
The latest press dispatch from Phila-
delphia states "there are no indica-
tons of general strike of miners in
the Clearfeld coal region, There
are about 800 hundred men employ
ed at the seven mines on the Camp
BELLS Branch Railroad, near Philips
burg, and the majority of other miners
are said to TO averse to a strike.
Read between the lines the indica-
tions are that the condition of affairs
over there is not aerene-from the
operators outlook, Perhaps they are
"whistling to keep their courage up"
Add this suspicion TO the general
confidence felt here that the Clear
field men will finally and unani-
mously suspend, and it may be reas-
onably inferred that all is not lovely
over there. eltheless the fact
remains that whatever they intend to
do should be done quickly.
In this connection the New York
Coal Of Wednesday remarks that "the
notice given by tho Clearfeld miners
to their emploYers--ahich was fore
Swallowed in our laac--that they
would demand ain increase Of wages
for mining from so to 65 cents, 10
take effect on the 18th, has not for
the present been carried into effect,
owing to the finn attitude of tie
companies. From all We can learn,
the prospects of any suspension for
any length Of time are no5 such as 10
be likely to have any effect upon the
markets. The miners have quietly
gone on working, and they too well
know the frmuess CT their employ
e,s to embark ia any strike with the
chances 50 strong against them. If
they want TO help the Cumberland
men, their action would simply prove
a failure. The Indications of an early
cessation Of the strike are becoming
more numerous. AS yet, these labor
movements have had no perceptiblo
effect on trade. The heavy tonnage
of the Claarfold region, and the
anxiety on the part of some to market
their coal, have unsettled prices for
some time past, and $4.50@$4.75
would be fair quotation, though
higher figures are asked by some
shippers. The railroad company has
advanced freights on the line trade
25 cents per ton, an action which is
surprising and unwise in the face of
the fact that tho iron mills and
other consumers are by no means
as coed buyers of coal as they have
been. We hear that an Eastern
road has contracted for 10000 tons
OF coal, and that several other con-
tracts are now in the market"
On the other hand the Philadelphia
correspondent of the same paper in
quires what shall b0 said of the
condition of the bituminous trade
which has not been said over and
over again for the past six weeks -?
Only this--that the trade is not so
dull as most correspondents report.
There is good, brisk buying, the in
centive being the near approach to
the time when the men in tho Clear
field and other regions will strike
for the Is cents advance. This is
regarded az sure to come, and that
very soon. Prices arc the same and,
tho trade generally is in an appar-
emily quiescent state except as before
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