Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-11-14
y \ MINERS.
Work is dull at Elk Lick, Pa,

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A new coal bank has been opened up
near EldOra, Iowa, and some fine coal is
being taken out.
The demand for anthracite coal from the
west is greater than the supply, says Z, Pot
tsyillc paper.
At the new plant Ofthe Central Councils
willie Coke Co., ut Tarrs, 1Oi ovens are COM
pleted, while the second lOOare about half
finished.
The slope on the Mammoth wien at Bast
| colliery, near POttSville, Pa, has fallen in
for Il length of 100 feet near the bottom,
and will keep 200 miners idle for a month.
The scales on the tipple at Woods Run,
Washington county, were inspected
recently by Inspector LOutitt and it was
found that l04 pounds, instead OF &c, were
required TO make 4 bushel.
The Connellsyille Coke and Iron Com
pany are preparing to put down a third
Shaft at Leisenring No. 3. The test hole
was completed n few days ago. The coal
lies ut Il considerable depth, being AGO feet
| from the surface, but the shaft will be put
down without delay.
The coax trade prospects are growing
brighter every day. The demand has all
along been greater han the supply, but
the restriction was solely on accent of 4
scarcity of cars. This drawback is being
gradually overcome and a prosperous wintr
is confidently expected.
At Cincinnati the demand is moderate
and the market steady. Prices TO con-
sumers are as follows, delivered: Pitts
burg, 12c per bushel, or So 81 per ton;
Kanawha river, l2c per bushel, CT IS 33
per ton; Ohio rive, Sc per bushel, or 81 %
per ton; anthracite Sc 30 per ton.
At the next session of the legislature of
Pennsylvania application will be made for
IN appropriation sufficient to erect three
cottage hospitals for the Use Of miners in
the bituminOus coal region. This is the
scheme knocked out last winter by reason
of having been introduced too late in the
session.
The fire in the Standard mine at Mt.
Pleasant, Pa, has been confined to an area
of about five acres of coal, and is being
rapidly extinguished. A dam has been
built around the burning mass, the air has
been shut Oft from it and water is being
pumped into it. BY this means it has been
confined TO this small area, and all danger
is considered at 81 end.
\ A well known coal operator in Plttsburg
speaking in regard to the prospect of a coal
famine at points down the Ohio river, said:
Coal is very scarce on the rivers, more so
than for several years past. The retail
dealers in lower ports, however, have a
good supply on hand in their yards. Coal
is now retailing for II cents at Cincinnati
and Louisville, and | would not be sur
prised to see it advance to 10 cents unless
there should be a rise i'll the rivers pretty
soon. At New Orleans there is a good
supply
~Raumgardner K Co., owners and opera
tors of Enterprise colliery, near Shamokin,
| Pa, have granted the miners in their EN-
ploy an advance of ten per cent in wages.
/ This is one of the cOllierieS at which II was
decided a strike should he inaugurated
| Saturday unless an advance of ten per cent
was forthcoming, and the prevailing opinion
now is that the operators of the other six
mines will be compelled to follow the eX-
ample of the owners of the Enterprise, as
the miners will not be likely to submit it
to arbitration. Shenandoah Herald.