Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-29

Of wilkssbarre, Pa, who are Knights Of
Labor 'A'' VI
week. e A1'''
Work is still dull at the Window mine
Elk Garden, w. Va, at present.
The average earnings of 34s miners en-
pioyed IN nine mines ut Oseeola Mills in
the Clearheld region, for the two weeks
ended July 3lst, were SIT 56.
The coal shaft at Lawrence. Kan. has
reached the ledge Just above the coal II
IS expected that vein of coal 20 inches or
more IN thickness viii be unearthed.
The Westmoreland Coal Company. of
pennsylvania, employing 1000 men. is
working full time. The Penn Gas Coal
Company are also running regularly.
The miners at Belleville, Ill, mines,
lReutehler and Turkey Hill are out for a
eheekweighman. They offer to work for
1t cents per bushel with one on. The own
erS offer l4 cents per bushel without one.
Advlees from the Plat mines, Birming-
nam, Ala, state that work on the coke
ovens goes on with undated ACTIVITY,
There are more than 100 nearly half done
and n few almost finished.
The Kansas Carbon Coal Compapy To-
Gated two miles north of the town of Pitts
burg, IN Usage county, Kansas, have COM
meneed to sink large shaft, and still an
oeher one will be put down before cold
weather This will give employment to
some 800 men.
The employees of the New Central Coal
Company have organized Mutual Aid
Society, similar to those now established
IN the American, Pontiac and Georges
Creek Companies. Hector COchrane is
president, Thomas Fisher, secretary, and
Jas. Martin, treasurer. Nd }
RsrieIr.
At Cincinnati the market is quiet and
prices easy. Pittsburg afloat is quoted
Mt 64c per bushel for second pool; Ka-
nawha River, 54a6c, and Ohio River, &c
per bushel. Prices to consumers are as
follows, delivered: Pittsburg, &c per bushel
OF -. 90 per ton; Kanawha River, she per
bushel, or 1886 per ton; Ohio River, &c
per bushel, or Sl.94 per ton; Anthracite,
$3.50 per ton.
The Eagle cOlliery at Coal Valley, w.
Va, Is running well, with a fair prospect
OF steady work during the year. This
mine is seldom idle. The Kanawha Col
liery Company, at Mount Carbon, is doing
well, with fair prospects of steady work
for their men. The Mount Carbon Com
pany (limited) stunning steady and doing
a large business in cooking. They will soon
increase their capacity for this product by
buildinglOne hundred additional Ovens.-
Sd1Fdrd'S JOrrRGl.
The miners in the cOllieries along the
Beech Creek railroad Stoned to think they
are working under a good scale rs any
miners in this region. Their pay comes
promptly every other Saturday; they have
u checkweighman on every tipple, and no
compulsiOn to deal at any store, but the
larger portion of the men purchase their
employers the goods so purchased being
deducted on each pay day. They have
steady work with plenty OF cars.-OSeeOla
RereiRe.
The report of work in the mines of the
Georges Creek coal region for the week end
ing WedneSay, August II, as reported to
this paper only, is rs follows: Hoffman, y
days; Eckhart, . days; New Hope, Ale
gany, Ocean, Kingsland, New DetmOld,
and Potomac, full time; SwantOn, Phoenix,
Franklin, and Hamshire, half time; Bor-
den, days; Miller, days; Old 'COney,
and New 'Coney, 81 days, including ex-
tra time; KOOntz, 81 days; Pekin, idle
Homecoming Rerier.
A. X. Salisbury, representing DR.. Hos
letter and several other capitalists, has ac-
cepted options on nearly 800 acres OF coal
land between Latrobe and Youngstown,
Pa This last purchase eXhausts the mar
ketable coal between Mt. Pleasant and La
trobe, and added to other holdings of the
same syndicate, makes 4 total of about
4. 800 acres controlled by them in that val
ley. Among the purchases was the John
Carr farm, 40 acres; John kintz, l25
acres: Reuben FerguSOn's heirs, l25 acres;
Jacob and David KarneS, 81 acres; Jacob
Brindle, ST., 90 acres; Jacob Brindle, Jr.,
:G3 acres.-J dionto,cR (PI) Meas.