Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-12-19

rect advance in wages. Aim to secure this
first, and other benefits will follow. The
free trade plank ingrafted in the Federated
platform at their convention in this city
in ISL caused the Amalgamated AssOcia'
ton Of lion and Steel Workers to with
draw from it. That plank is now with
drwn, however, and the latter organization
may see its way clear to connect itself with
the Federation at some future time.
MINES AID MINERS.
There is a lockout at the Dexter mines,
West OyeItan, Pa.
Reports from the Fourth pool state that
NEARLY all the mines are running.
The February meeting of the Institute
of Mining Engineers will be held at ScIan'
ton, Pa.
SnOwden & Hogs, the Brownsville, Pa,
coal operators, have adopted the two
weeks pay system.
The new shaft at Brazil, Ind, is opening
up pretty good. They are hosting 2Ot
tons per day.
A strike is in progress in the MahOning
valley, Ohio, for an increase often cents
per ton in the price of mining.
The miners of Steubenville, Ohio, have
demanded an advance of two cents per cal
for mining coal.
Associated Press dispatches state that the
ShamoEin, Pa, miners, who have been on
strike for several weeks, have returned to
work.
Coal in immense quantities has been
Uncovered in Henderson and Smith
counties, Texas. In the former county
one vein is twenty feet in diameter and
only thirty feet below the surface. In
Smith county coal was discovered in less
amount, but its quality is excellent.
At Louisville, Ky, Sdrdrd'S JOaraa,
quotes prices of bituminOuS coal rs follows
| PittSburg slack, &c. per bus hel on barge,
&c, to 6!c. ut factory; Pittsburg nut, &c.
per bushel on barge, l0c. at factory; Pitts
| burg lump for manufacturing, Sic. per
buShel on barge, lie. delivered at factory;
Pittsburg lump for domestic purposes, SIC.
per buShel on barge, l2c. at residence.
The Jellico, Tenn, coal belt is q COM
paratively limited area, being about ten
miles long by four broad, and is situated
in Whitley county, Kentucky, and Camp
| bell county, Tennessee, on the Louisville
and Nashville, and East Tennessee, Vir-
ginia and Georgia railroads, 200 miles
south OF Louisville and 90 miles north OF
Knoxville. In this field are four veins oil
coal thick enough to be worked.
The coal miners are working regular
| time in Bellyille, H., region. The ma
chine mines operate on the day-wagcs sys-
TEN, miners receiving from Sl.75 to -
per day. These mines, as u rule, are Oper-
ated by the st. Louis Consolidated Coal
Company. The Belleville Coal Exchange,
for the most part, pay rs per bushel for
mine productions, and the average IS said
to be II cents per bushel.-Ne'rs Demo
crdt
It's stated that coal has been found in
Cleburn county, Arkansas.
The shipment of coal from Chicago from
January to October 80 foot up 3,sO6, 49,
| tons.
The mines at Rock Springs, Wyoming
Territory, are putting on 100 fiat of coal
per day.
Messrs. w. II. Piper * Co., of the Son
man Coke Works, NJ Lillys station, Cam
bria county, Pa, on the Pennsylvania
railroad, who already have 20 beehive
ovens, are to build 100 additional ovens at
once.
The miners ut MOrrell, Pa, are satisfied
with the present condition of affairs, with
the exception of scales. They ill their
wagons according to the measure OF the in
spectOr-fOrty bushels ut water level-and
claim that the wagons, which are hauled
| from 200 to 100 yards by mules and
brought up ., 900 foot slope at rate OF
eight OF ten miles per hour, are shaken
down when they reach the tipple, and
| that in consequence the miners are locked
| from two to four bushels The men complain
of this, aud say that nothing short OF the
establishment Of scales will satisfy them.
-CORRellsriHe Courier.
The Ridge View Coal and Coke Co.,
whose works are near LatrObe, Pa, IN
what il termed in the coke directory the
upper Connellsyille region, have 81 coke
ovens in full blast, and intend erecting 80
to 30 i'm the spring A portion OF the coal
~ sent 10 nllIket anu tuC SSiNNH'hcS' W 'N~
ovens.
There is considerable activity in the
erection of coke ovens IN the Bluestone re-
zion of the Flat Top Coal Field Of West
Virginia. AtSterling cOlliery, John Coop
er and Co. are building so coke ovens, to
Ne ready for Use January l, 1857. At Re
lance Golliery, VIM. Booth & Co. are erect
inc % coke ovens. At Caswen Greek
eolliery, Freeman K Jones are erecting 40
coke ovens. Robert Goodwill and ID. Dou-
ty have leased 500 acres of the5 foot bed
on Filming Creek, and will at once erect
500 coke ovens. George Marshall y Co.
have also leased 500 acres OF the D foot bed
on Flipping Creek, and will at once erect
100 coke ovens. Some ofthe above COM
uanies will at once erect more ovens, so
that early in the summer OF lSSI there Will
be over 400 coke ovens in blast on the
Bluestone; adding to these the ovens al
Pocahontas, it will be seen that the Flat
Top coking coal field will soon be aple 10
furnish a considerable tonnage OF coke
american Manufacturer.