Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-05-17
MINES AND MINERS.

The pool price for eo'e remains at 81 Is.
ConneIsvine coke sells in Chicago at
- 40.
Clearfa,d coal sell at Baltimore at g 10
and a, Nev York at 81 IS.
Cam.eglanI coal sells at Baltimore at
:. - and AZ New York al s. %.
Ksnawhe gas coal sells at Newport News
A, s. NO. at New York at 81 %.
Cannelton gas camel coal sells at Newport
News at - Is; at New York, 80 90.
Westmorelaud and Penn Gas, at South
Am6Oy, at IS so; st New York, u %.
Pittsburg coal sells in Chicago at - 80
TO s. so; Hooking VALLEY At 50 Is to s. Is.
Piusburg coal sells in Chicago at 81 10
70 81 80 per ton; Hooking Valley at s. %
70 s. 80.
At Cleveland, Ohio, the following prices
for bit1minous coal are quoted: Carbon
Hill and Monday Creek. 81 So MsssillOu,
s. g.; Palmy-a lump - 90; Briar Hill
and Pittsburg, s. %; Salineylils, 81 %;
TuCsrswas, e TO-
At Cincinnati, Ohio, the coal market re-
mains easv with free offerings, but the de-
nand is fai- from local consumptive trade,
P;rsburg second pool coal sells at "a Tie,
do. .Curih pool az &c, and hanawha river
at GlC,.c. per bushel aaoat The retail
prices are lie per bushel for Pittsburg, 90
Inc for Kanaaha river, and &c. for Ohio
river delivered.
\ vein OF coal sixteen feet thick was
struck in tie Continental colhery, at Cen
uaGa, Pa, las Saturday.
A plsrc fog 100 coke ovens is being pre-.
pared b. James Cochran in Dunbar town.
ship, Fas cite eoanty, Pa.
The demand made by the CoketOn, Pa ,
miners for al advance Of 10 cents per wagon
has been refused.
The FIRE in Preston colEery No. 3, near
GirsIdsyille, Pa, has been so far extin-
gEished ths: work has been resumed there.
The miners employed by the Isabella coke
works, at COkeville, Pa, are debating the
aGyisabiiity O. a strike for an increase ia
wages
What IS supposed to be the Lykens, Val.
lev vein was struck at the Gilbertson, Pa,
col'isfy, in ibe anthracite region, s. few days
$50
at the amount Of coal shipped from the
Wonderland region this year 65l $50 tons
have gone .=On mines on the Maryland side
e lhe Potomac river.
Davis Bos viii shortly open up their II
feet coal VEN in Tucker county, ". Va,
about - miles from Piedmont, and p
miles from Fix Garden.
Two million one hundred and 6ftytwo
thousand b4shels Of coal letf Pittsburg on
SUNDAY last, Including 90t bushels for Gin
clnnsti and l,2tS,0OO bushels for Louis
vile.
There was an explosion Of gas in Stan
ton ar shaft, near Wilkesbsrre, Pa, on Sun
dag night, placing the mite in such con-
dii,Oa that ]; cannot be entered foC several
days.
The coke syndicate last week ordered q
shut down o: 10 per cent Of their ovens.
The blow out is necessary because business
Is so dull, and the flruscemen anticipate q
C.oSadOwr.
The Atla0t:a and Georges Creek Co. has
ceased work = the George Creek district,
Nd. and has now o property opened in
Mineral county, ". Va with capacity of
SIX bundled tons per day.
The strike Of the Elk Garden miners
and lie unsettled condition of affairs in the
Georges Creek region has caused the mi
hers OF the Meyersdsle district whose pro-
aCct enters the same market Gs Georges
''eek coal, 70 prepare themselves so they
can GCt IN harmony with their neigh6Ogs. A
mass meeting will De held on the 18th inst.
10 Strengthen their position as we'll al pos
SIC.