Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-04
10Th At HOME AND ABROAD.
MINES AND MINERS.

ConnelsvIlle coke sells II chicago at
81 40.
Pittsburg coke sells in Chicago at 81 90
per ton.
Pittsburg coal sells in Chicago at 50 20;
Hooking Valley at s..
Clearfeld coal sells at Baltimore at 81 70
and al New York at g Is.
Cumberland coal sells at Baltimore at
g. 20 and at New York at s. p.
i Ksnawha gas coal sells at Newport News
At So 90; at New York at 81 90.
Canuelton gas camel coal sells at Newport
\ News at s. 25; at New York, 50 so.
Westmoreland and Penn. Gas at South
Amboy, st 50 so; at New York 81 90.
Coal OF Cincinnati is in good demand and
firm. Youghiogheny sells at lOe, Kaus"hs
river at qGl0c, and Ohio river at SC per
bushel, delivered.
Reynoldsville and Fairmoat coal sells as
follows in Buffalo: Screened lump, - p;
lump and nut, mixed - Is; run of mines
- 90; screened nut, 81 %; nut and slack,
mixed 81 -; slack, 81 So.
At Cleveland, Ohio, the following prices
for bituunous coal are quoted: Carbon
I.il and Monday Creek, - 50; Nassillon,
G. 65. Palmgra lump 81 90; Briar Hlu
s. Pirtsbu-g s., SaEneville, g Is; Tus.
carawss = 10.
Bi,umincus coal sells as follows in Chi
csgo: Baltimore aud Ohio, 81; Bloss5urg,
81; Indiana bloc 3 50; Indiana slack,
81 rs: Indiana nut, 81; Grape Creek,
> Is; Fountain County, 81 Is; Sreator,
p l5.-Sawarj's Coal Trade Journal.
p Ia. Is the standard price paid for
n.iuinc coal in Durham, England.
TIE miners Of South Moline Iowa, are
all on strike for cents per bushel
Cars continue scarce ia the Clesgield
mining region. Whitehead Il Co are open
irr new diff on the Barton track.
Ey October lst the coke works of J. W.
Moore. located near Pleasant Unity, Pa,
vail be completed aud 400 new ovens put IN
active operation.
The Chinese have all been discharged at
the various coal mines 10 the vicinity of
Seattle. Wyoming Territory. Four carloads
OF these people arrived st Portland, Oregon
last Tuesday.
A dispatch dated Houiz1sle, Pa, Septem.
Der - says: John Mehan, Peter Folk,
Joserh Heamper and John ForsJthe, miners,
we're drosned in the franklin mine by wa
ter running in from an old mine on lover
level.
Of the amount Of coal shipped from the
Georges Creek, Nd, region this year, l.
600 cps tons have gone from mines on the
MARYLAND side of the Potomac river. The
Clear6eld ou'put is 2,SC0 7S6 tons, or 63+,-
-g2 TONS in excess of Georges Creek-FrOst-
burg Journal.
Mr.. Thomas X Adams Inspector Of the
Third bituminous district, has issued q no
tee requiring mine operators, superinten-
dents and mine boss g OF mines located in
Armstrong, Beaver Butler, Clarion, Law
renee Mercer, and Yensngo counties to
make monthly reports. He also requests
tie uaps Of tie workings Of the mine to be
kept where be can see 1t.
At recent conference Of miners dele
rates from all parts OF Scotland, at Glas-
sow, it Was agreed that the miners Of Ian
arkshire should adopt uniform day work
Of eight hours. The question Of an advance
OF Cd per day was mentioned, but it was
finally agreed that no demand for an ad-
vance should be made until the eight hours
system was adopted.
A dispatch 70 the Montreal Gazette says
that Sir George Elliott, NJ. P, the great
English colhery owner is in Nova Scotia for
the purpose Of bringing about an amslgs-
nation, under one powerful syndicate Of the
various Pictou colleries, operated by Ameri'
can, English and Montreal companies so as
to increase the capital, curtsil the expenses
of management, and thus more ehectually
compete with the Spring Hill mines, which
are threatening to control tue Montreal and
Lower Province markets. The annual out
put of the proposed syndicate is 100000
ems.