Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1885-02-14

Canal, Coal aud Labor Notes-Las
years tolls and wharfage rates amour
ted to Sc cents this year they are re
| duced to &c cents-a concession of II
cents per ton.
In addition to the brief dispatch last
week to the JOURNAL containing the
gist of the above statement, it was de.
cided at the meeting Of the canal di.
rectory to do away with all the local
counsel in the various counties along
the line of the canal, also the counsel
in the District of Columbia, who have
been receiving retaining fees.
President Baughman was authorized
to settle the claims of the Maryland
and American coal companies, which
have been in litigation for number of
years. The New Central Coal company
and individual shippers will also be
pressed to settle up the claims due the
canal company.
The new schedule of charges is said
to be the lowest ever known on the
canal. Under them the cost of trans
portation Of coal per ton to tidewater
will be about as follows:
Expenses from the mine to Cumberland.S 80
boating ................ ................ ~
Aoii". '''' e go ''''.''' '~-
,Uf
Total. ............. III. 70
This is little lower than the
cost by railroad, which has been fixed
at $1.30 per ton after the drawback
has been allowed. The canal charges
were placed at the reduced figures to
meet the railroad competition.
The statement that the combination
of soft coal producers has been made
on the basis that of the whole quantity
marketed, IS per cent. is allowed to the
Pennsylvania interest, and As per cent.
to the Baltimore and Ohio, has been
repeated frequently enough to be true.
But those who have been bitten by
faith in similar compacts in former
years are skeptical of the present ar
rangement and are not taking too
much stock in it. 1t is said by some of
the doubters that the Vanderbilt and
Virginia interests were admitted to
the pool gratuitously, 4. e., these inter
ests were "wooed and won without
being axed." If this suspicion be well
founded there is doubtless trouble
ahead for the pool. The we'll known
fact that the Pennsylvania road would
not enter the anthracite combination
is also taken as indicative that COM
petition may further degenerate into
a destructive free lance contest
Assuming, however, that the ar
rangement is bona tide and so main
tanned, and that 100000 tons soft
coal are shipped, the allotment to the
B. and 0. territory is 3,l50,000 tons.
Take from this 100000 tons for the
Norfolk and Western, and the almost
certain tonnage from this region, in
GLIDING Elk Garden, will reach
2,550,000 tons for 1884.
At a meeting of the Central Labor
Union held in New York February
LIST, the Labor Bureau at Castle Gar
den was discussed, and a resolution
was passed that u committee be in
structed to draw up a circular to be
sent to all the newspapers in America
and Europe, setting forth that the con-
ditions of life in the new world have
changed within the past ten years !;
that all the public lands have been
given away; that hundreds Of miners
in Pennsylvania and Ohio are starving;
and that there are thousands of able
bodied men idle in all the cities of the
Union.
Military Afairs.-Col. E. H. Ward
well, accompanied by Adjutant D. W i.
Sloan, visited this place Friday after
noon of last week and inspected Com
pany D at the armory-Moat's Opera
House. Owing to the early hour,
O'Clock, the attendance was not full.
Those present, however, acquitted