Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-02-17
THE WAGE WORKERS
The Industrial intelligence OF the
Past Week
IN THIS VICINITY AND AT LARGE.
Notes Concerning the Iron Men, Goal
Miners. Cigar Makers Glass
Blowers, Railroad Men,
Etc, &c,
Mines and Miners

Cftbe 9, 6g5 ovens in the ConneiiSVille
coke region only 704 are Idle.
DIT ,o,v of the coal mines in the Ma
lDGna VsIlev are working full time.
cumberland coal sells at Baltimore 81
~ and at New York at st -.
Csrneltop gas camel coal sells st
>SSno,t News, Va, a. IS 50; at New
York at 50 -.
Esnawha gas coal brings s. % at
>aa,n0rt News, Va, and II % at New
York.
A new 10, Of Huagarisns have Just
.rr;ved nj the Hecla coke works In the
Connellsville region.
R,ossburg coal sells at 81 per ton In
Chicago: Indiana block coal at s. 10;
Stresfor coal At - 40; Hooking Valley
st 81 50
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road Company miued aud shipped IN
January l&,5TO tons OF coal, and manu-
featured and shipped S,o'5 tons OF COKE
Wholesale price of soft coal in Lon
don market is II shiliiug5 sterling, or
six dollars of our money, aud yet they
talk about that country having every
Inl0R tuGNRtI AAsAA VIC ASs'N AASAN'
Stewards Journal.
Reypoldsville and Paramount bitumi-
nous coal sells az Buffalo, y. Y, as fol.
lows: Screened lump, = So; lump and
nut mixed, - 10; run of mines, 3 50;
screened nut, 81 40; nut and slack,
mixed, 81 s.; slack, 81 Is.
The miners Of Piuckneyyille, ILL.,,
have stood q reduction Of ten cents per
box. or from 40 to so cents. The mining
company have pluck.me store in addi-
tiop 10 this, and between reductions and
the pluck-me manage TO keep their men
very poor.
The Frostburg, Md, Journal of Feb
rusTy says: Some cOmmOtion was
started early this week Oy y report from
Elk Garden that the price for mining
what IS known "a rel coal" up there
was reduced from 80 to ~ cents per ton.
The miners demurred, but fears were
felt that they would ba overcome. Ii Is
reliably stated, however, that while the
attempt was made to reduce, It was
abandoned. The companies OF this re-
zion, We dOuJs rot, failed 10 sympathize
with the movement To cut wages lower
than they are.
\ fire which broke out in an abau-
doued gangway in the Salem Ca! CO.
drifts at SnicEshiuny, Pa, two weeks
ago, continue To burn turlOusly but by
closing up all the air passages 1t Is ex-
peCted To overcome the flames by
smotheIing them. SO far the fire has
been confined 20 the gangway in which
it originated, but the loss must already
amount 10 many hundreds Of dollars.
The great effort now is to keep the
flames from getting into any other
workings, as in any event of that kind
the mine will have to be abandoned and
Hooded to extinguish them.
The number of employees in the vart-
Gus colheries operated by Coke Bros. Il
Go. is So. Last year the company
mined b43, 400 tons over the production
i'm l3S2. The Long Valley Coal Com
rany, of Bradford county, Pa, have
contract to furnish the West Shore
rDad with go tons Of coal per day.
There is quite q large number OF men
employed at this mine, and they are
working very good. MeIntire mines
are working good at present, the force
Of men being largely reduced by being
drafted TO their new works at Peaia,
Centre county, st which place there is
quite large village built, and five
drifts put in, They are expecting to
! ship coal in May.-Saward' Journal.