Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-03-18
MINES n MINERS.
is doing at Peru, Ill.

Little is doing at Peru, Ill.
Five collieriss in the Shamokin region
are idle, and others threaten to suspend.
The miners at Hsslie, Polk county,
Iowa, are out on a strike.
ST. Louis market: Big Muddy. 1925;
Vulcan, 1925; Ava, Sl.624.
Cleveland market: Brier Hill, $2.75a
So; MassillOu, 81 5O4$2.65 P~ittsburg,
81 1882 %.
Chicago market: Pittsburg, lump, l3
cents a bushel; nut, IL cents.
Toledo market: Hooking Valley, lump,
81 IS; nut, 81 Is; MassillOp, lump, 81 IS;
nut, 81 IS.
Indianapolis market: 1000 pounds per
ton, Pitts6urg lump, SO; Indiana block,
S2.45; lower vein, $2.55.
A 26.irch vein of coal has been discoy.
cred on the land of I. j.. OConnell, near
Carlton, Kansas, sixty feet from daylight.
The vein of coal recently discovered
near Sulphur Springs, at st. Helena, Cal,
prospects we'll.
The Tennessee c., I. and r. R. Co.,
from its Tracy mines, has shipped "a, 120
tons of coal and -, 3OS tons of coke in the
two months to March l.
In northern Illinois, where the coal
miners are organized, they make from $50
to $50 q month, while in the southern end,
where the men are unorganized, the most
of them AVERAGE but 81 a day.
Buffalo market: Per ton of 2, 900 pounds,
| Pittsburgh, region of A. V. r. K screened
lump 81 so; lump and nut, 81 so; run OF
mines, 81 IS. Reynoldsville, run of mines,
81 50; lump and nut, g. so; screened lump,
go. Brier Hill, lump, So. 50a2 rs.
A Dakota D says: Hard coal in
Sioux Falls costs so tents o ton less thar in
Sioux City and 81 less at Omaha. notwith-
standing the fact that both cities enjoy q
freight rate from Chicago of rs cents less
per ton than Sioux Falls.
The miners and mine laborers at some of
the mines in the Georges Creek district are
discussing the feasibility Of establighing
the restriction of output of coal to five tons
per day per man, and the REDUCTION Of the
hours of labor TO nine per day.
The first car load of Sand Coulee coal
reached Helena on the 10Th ult. The day
before the coal was given a practical test
on one of tbe Montana Central engines and
proved itself to be in every respect equal
to the Ohio coal which has heretofore been
in use.
Senator McKsig's mine inspection and
ventilation bill failed in the Maryland SEN
ate for want of a constitutional majority,
the vote being Is to 9. He gave notice that
he will move for its reconsideration, which
can be done when a bill fails because it
did not get the constitutional majority.
The Senator says he expects to get the bill
through.
The Coal Valley Coal Company, which
unfortunately became financially emhar-
raised about two years ago, but was ena-
bled * recover sufficiently to continue its
business, has been compelled to suspend
again. The liabilities of the firm, it is un-
derstood, are in the neighborhood ofSl0O,-
900, and the assets are said to be less than
that fgure.-MeKeespOrt Times.
Before the strike there were nine hun
dred men on the Reading Compsny's pay
roll at Port Richmond. 1t has Deen esti-
mated that when all the mines shall be in
foil operation again and tbs Port Richmond
wharves receive daily their full quota Of
coal, not 400 men will be required to DO
toe work formerly performed by 600, the
change having been brought about by the
new machinery.
Mr.. J. T. Farland, Of Clarksburg, the
w~ell-kuuwn coke manufacturer, has dis
posed of a half interest in his coke works,
at Adamston, west of the city The pur-
chasels are Baltimore and New York par
ties and the new company was iucorpor-
ated last week as the Farland Coke Com
pany with the privilege of issuing stock to
the amount Of 81, OOO, 900. Mr.. Farland
will be the manager Of the new concern
and they are preparing to DO an extensive
business. They will erect 10 new ovens
Immediately, making 100 in all. The cost
OF this addition TO the works will be be-
tween $25, 900 and $50, 900, giving employ
ment 70 a large number of men as will the
running of the ovens when completed.