The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-19
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

the Lehigh and Willkes-Barre company
will take its suit with the Wright heirs
to the supreme court.
The Lehigh Valley railroad owned
S5OS,l54 of water company stocks in
1892. AT present it is reported that this
holding has been reduced to $112,250.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has resumed the work of Strengthening
its main line. The work was suspended
some months ago during the depression.
The Lehigh Valley has decided to
have no more wooden bridges. There
are only fifty-seven wooden bridges on
the line now out of total of l04S or
| these 757 are stone and 227 iron.
The timber land of the state isn't
decreasing as fast as one might believe.
In 1892 there We're S,S5S,142 acres. In
1893 only 1900 acres were cleared. In
1894 about 121314 acres were cleared.
The Philadelphia and Reading rail-
road company has changed the system
of signaling on passenger trains. In
stead of shouting ''all right the brake
men will signal with their arms and
lamps.
II. d. Hughes and Arthur Caswell
have secured the contract for sinking
the new slope in the Cooper vein at No.
., Delaware and Hudson, at Plymouth.
Work will be begun at once. The dis
tance to be driven is $50 feet.
An act to regulate the employment of
railroad telegraph operators will be in
troduced at the next session of the
Pennsylvania legislature. This act
passed the house last time but failed
on second reading in the senate.
/ The Huntingdon and Broad Top rail-
road carried 49,O45 tons of coal last
week, an increase Of 1,129 tons over the
same week last year. Since Jan. the
shipments have been 1964,S94 tons. q
decrease of 174,14O tons, as compared
with last year.
The Blue Mountain railroad from
Harrisburg TO Reading is being sur
veyed again. 1t will connect with the
South Mountain road at SlatingtOn, and
at that point with the Pennsylvania,
Poughkeepsie and Boston and make a
through route.
The Pennsylvania is considering the
building Of quite a number of freight
cars, and whenever it is decided to
undertake the work part of the cars
will be awarded to private firms. As
yet nothing definite has been done by
the company.
The anti-Wilbur people are reported
TO have twenty clerks at work asking |
for proxies. John N. Wilson, for many |
years traffic manager of the Pennsyl- |
vania, is mentioned for the presidency |
In case John " tnl lker will not lead |
the opposition
superintendent King, of the Philadel- |
phla, Reading and New England. has |
resigned to accept the superintendent |
of the Providence division of the New |
York and New England. Chief Train
Dispatcher Masters has been promoted
to Mr.. Kings old position.
A combination freight and cattle car
has just been built by General Manager
Compbell of the Baltimore and Ohio.
Cattle cars at present are almost al
ways returned empty. The new car If
found practicable, will allow il TO be
used for cattle in one direction and for
freight in the other
The North No, 2 slope at Silver Brook
has been Shut down. There was some
coal IN the workings, but it was of such
poor quality that the company did not
1t profitable to prepare it. The
roads in the gangways and on the slope
nave peen taken out, thus leaving the
slope to fill with water.
AllWork on the extension of the Belle
lohte central railroad from State Col
lege to Pine Grove has been Temporarily
suspended owing to lack of funds and
scarcity of iron. 1t is authoritatively
stated that the road will be completed
ana trains running on it before March /,
1870 over one-half of the distance is
graded and rails are laid ON the same
distance.
Since the total suspension of No. 1
colliery, at Silver Brook, the Silver
Brook Coal company have been using
their utmost endeavor to obtain for the
last named carrying corporation a
share of the output from No. 9 collierv
The Lehigh Valley effors have been
successful and from today they will be
awarded between $50 and 200 tons a day
Of the No. colliery's output.
A rich find has been made at the Phil
adelphia and Reading company's Bast
colliery near Big Mine Run, which
gives to that mine a new lease of life.
The colliery was originally owned and
operated by Emanuel Bast. The
methods formerly employed in develop-
Ing the mine made it impossible to
work the east side above 1000 yards in
extent, and it was abandoned years
ago. The Buck Mountain vein on the
west side was worked to the limit. and
the prospects for further work seemed
so poor that many of the miners went
elsewhere for work. The company in
the meantime prospected in various
places, but without success. A tunnel.
I25 yards in length, from the west side
was driven some time ago, but 1t opened
INTO the Buck Mountain vein, which is
Inferior A gangway was then driven
eastward 1000 yards, and another tun-
mel, the same length as the first driven.
The company was rewarded when the
workmen broke through the rock into
The long lost coal deposit known as the
Mammoth vein. This vein ranges from
thirty to sixty feet in thickness and
S of the finest in quality. An official
If the company stated that with such
as the Bast coliery now has
t is the richest in the mining region
md will provide work for hundreds of
men for many years to come. The !