Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-31
COAL.

Coal has been found at Window, Kan
Sas, fourteen feet below the surface.
H. G. Fisher and others are opening up
coal land and will build coking ovens in
Jefferson county, Pa.
The old Mill Creek coal mine, at Wheel
ing, W. Va, will hereafter be run as a CO.
operative concern, and straight union coal
viii be the product.
The New York and WestmOreland coal
shaft, near Manor, Pa, which has been
idle for several weeks, has again resumed
work.
The Coal Valley, w. Va, mines are
only running about one-third time, and
the prospect for the better work is moi en-
cOuraging.
A seam Of coal eight feet thick has been
struck at the Nelson shaft, Shamokin,
Pa, alta depth of TO feet.
The mines at Glen City, Columbia
county, Pa, which have long been idle
pending the settlement of legal difficult
ties. are now to be worked to their fullest
capacity. They are nov developing a
vein of coal which is fourteen feet thick.
The report Of work in the mines Of the
Georges Creek coal region for the week
ending Wednesday, October Is, is as fol-
lows: Eckhart, New Hope, Ocean, KOOntz,
Detmold, Pekin and Potomac, full time;
'Coney, 81 days; Hoffman and Jackson,
81 days; Borden mine, ) days; Allegany,
Al days; Borden shaft st day.-LOaaeoH-
Jag, DID,, Rerier.
The Eagle Coal Company, West Virginia,
are gradually increasing their large output
of coal and coke. 4 number of new ovens
are now about completed. The CanneltOn
Coal Co. have resumed operations aftrr an
idle spell o three months. All the mines on
New River are doing fairly well. The Black
Band Coal Co. pay mt dollar per ton for
digging coal at their works.-SdlrdrFS
JORrRdL.
The free miners at Coal Hill, Arkansas,
went on a strike for higher wages and also
against the employment Of convict laborerS.
/ Trouble between the free and convict labor
! ers now employed in the different mines has
been frequent, and ifan amicable settlement
I can be reached now, the trouble will be ut an
end until the meeting of the legislature IN
January, when an effort is to he made to
have the cOnyiCts removed from the mines.
Five hundred miners representing the
PENNSYLVANIA, Hickory Ridge, Hickory
Swamp, Enterprise, Excelsior, Luke Fiddler
and Cameron Galleries, operated by the
Union Coal and Mineral Mining Company,
met ut Excelsior, Pa, last Saturday to take
action to secure the restoration OF the III
per cent. reduction made at these mines IN
January of last year., On the question OF
ordering a general strike in ease the Oper-
ators refused the advance, there was almost
a unanimous ballot in favor Of it. A COM
mittee of seven, one from each COlliery, was
appointed to notify the mine officials OF
this action. In case a strike should be or
dered, 5000 hands will be affected by it.
GENERAL TRADE.
The carpenters of Cincinnati and vicini-
" are organizing rapidly.
The printing trade is good in C~incinna
ii, but there are plenty OF men to do the
work.
District Assembly ~ of the Knights OF
Labor has bought a headquarters in New
York City for so, 600.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has built
1000 cars this year, and is now turning
| out of the Altoona works a whole freight
train 4 day, or a car every fifteen min
uteS.
Gov. Lee, Of Virginia, has announced
that all convict labor in the State ha'
been withdrawn from competition witt
free labor, and hereafter no convict will
be employed in the shops, On railroads, OF
in any capacity where it will interfere
with honest labor.
The freight blockade in this city con
tinues. Owing to present facilities being
inadequate, the Pennsylvania Railroad
has placed orders for 1000 additional
freight ears, the Baltimore and Ohio ha:
ordered 1000, and the Pittsburgh anC
Western 2,OOO.-Amaicaa MaRgt.