The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-10
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

IreslueHt Wilbur Is puSy tneSe days ne
gotiating for proxies He has little diff
Guilty, however, in getting them.
The No. A proving hole, Audenried, on
the South dip of No. II slope, is SO far ad-
vanced that it will guarantee ten years
work.
Last Friday 72O mine cars of coal were
hoisted at No. Z breaker Milnesville
This breaks the record of hosting in this
region.
Henry William Biddle, of Philadelphia
has sold TO the Washington and Lake
Erie Gas Coal company $50 acres of coal
lands in Peters township, Washington
county, for $lS5,OOO.
The Lykens Valley vein at No. Honey
brook, Is about to be developed, and If 1t
is in as good condition as at the Beaver
brook colliery, 1t will supply the breakers
for about fifteen years.
The Silver Brook No. slope has been
ordered to close down by Mine Inspector
Stein until a better system of circulating
air is introduced, and consequently every
miner in the slope has been suspended.
Mr.. Wanamaker appears to be in great
demand, these days, as reorganizer of
bankrupt railroads. Perhaps those who
talk so much about him are inclined to
overestimate his real worth in an unfamil-
lar business,
The Pennsylvania. canal will be aban-
doned this winter and will be filed up and
the Pennsylvania will use the bed for rail-
road purposes, beginning in the spring.
1t Is said that a double track will be built
between Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has just is
sued an order compelling all trainmen
on the Lehigh division pulling from
Mauch Chunk and the Packerton yards
to take up their residence between Mauch
Chunk and Slatington, on and after Dec.
II.
Richard Martin inside foreman for
Simpson & Co. at Forty Fort colliery, has
resigned and will be succeeded by j. @
Riley, of Wyoming. Mr.. Riley has filed
the position of inside foreman for num-
ber of years for the Wyoming Valley Coal
company.
Western shipments of anthracite have
come to an end. as lake navigation has
closed. The companies that placed large
tonnage In the west are now restricting
their output and are not seeking to place
their tonnage in the east, as 1t was feared
they would.
A meeting of the directors of the Lee
high Coal and Navigation company will
be held In Philadelphia today. In all
probability Elmer Fl. laval, of Wilkes
Barre, will be elected president, City
Treasurer George ID. McCreary, of Phila-
delphia, having declined to be a candidate
against him.
Isaac |. Demarest, general passenger
and freight agent of the Wilkes Barre and
Eastern and New York, Susquehanna and
Western railroads, is to resign from that
position. His successor will be Frank
Smith, late general freight agent of the
Lehigh and Hudson railroad, better
known as the Bath branch of the Cen
trail
The iron trade is reported to be in a bet
ter condition than might have been ex1
pected. There is a good demand for
finished material; some large orders for
structural material are expected next
month and when the Pennsylvania rail-
road gives out its new years order for
standard rails 1t is thought the trade Will
materially brighten.
During the year ended Nov. 30, there
were " fatal and 126 non-fatal mine ac-
| cidents In the Sixth anthracite district.
The number killed eXcels last years rec
ord by l2.' AS q result of the accidents
there are 42 widows and 1iS orphans. The
victims of the accidents are classified as
follows: American, %; English, .; Irish,
| AZ; Welsh, 10; Scotch, l. Germans, s.;
| Polish, "; Italians, z; Austrians. 3.
| While force of men under Superin-
tendent d. X. Roberts, Of the Lehigh and
Wilkes-Barre Coal company were sink
! ing slope at Honeybrook colliery last