The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-07-10
GENERAL NEWS
OF INDUSTRIES

Uf lNDUSlHIES
The present anthracite circular, az
the Stockholder opportunely points ont,
is much lower than was that OF one
year ago. The July, 1898, circular
quoted broken coal. f. o. b.. at New
York, So 90 per ton; egg 81 10; stove,
$46 and chestnut, 81 60 Present
prices are 10 cents per ton lower on
broken and 25 cents on egg, stove ana
chsstnut The average of these four
eizes is. therefore, So 95 par ton, against
"a 31t per ton in July, 1873. AT the
present average the companies are re-
ceiving exactly what 1t cost them in
Ssptem Der, 1892. when Mr.. Mcleod
was in charge Of the Reading. That
cost. AS estimated by Mr. Mcleod,
was Just SO 95 per ton, as follows:
On BOARD cars at the mines.
81 81 6; loss on small sizes, 504 cents;
freight to Jersey City. 81 60; loading
on boats, 1J cents; commissions paid
to middlemen. 10 cents; total, So 70,
This was the actual cost of delivering
a ton of coal at Jersey City, without
anything for the coal in the ground,
or interest, or depreciation of the
plant producing it. II to these things
be added 30 cents royalty and % cents
for interest and depreciation of the
plants, there will, BE- total of $4 80
per ton the average price received for
prepared sizes in New York in Sep
tenn Der. 1892, was 81 80. thus showing
an actual loss Of 25 cents per ton.
These figures are, proportionately. ap-
plicable to the present cost to the
companies, for while wages and rates
are slightly lower, so also are prices,
and it is probable the latter will
more than Offset the former. This
being true. what more can bs asked Of
the mining companies?
Carbon county just now is indulgiug
in all the riotous luxuries Of first
class trolley war. The TamaQua-L
ford Electric Railroad company began
building an electric railroad from
Tamaqua to Lansford on Thursday
morping with force Of over 100 men.
The company begins at the Tamaqua
borough line and will build to the Lans-
ford borough line Both in pamsqua
and in Lansford, however, the right of
way has been granted to company OF
Philadelphia capitalists, styling them
selves the Inter County Electric Rail-
way company. The right to the turn.
pike between Tamaqua and Landsford
is in dispute, claimed by both parties,
lat tie TAmaqus and Landsford pso-
pie are putting down new road bed
parallel with the turnpike, and the end
~ not yet.
The threatened rate war on account
OF return tickets to the Christian En-
deavor and the National E lucational
conventions has, says the Indianapolis
Journal, been avertea by the gripping
of the roads interested on account OF
the strike. Unless thV conventions are
postponed they will probably be little
else than local affairs. The strike,
which has Decsssitated soma of the
the roads turning their contracts over
10 competing lines, has brought to light
some marked Irregularities on the part
of certSiu roads which usually UNDER
bid competitors Ole case has come TO
light where road Lad contracted to
carry party Of forty at &c below the
agreed rates, and ssv0n OF tue number
were given passes. The road which
contracted this business could not car
ry out its contract. and was compelled
10 buy forty full fare tickets aud ship
the party over another road at net
loss to the company Of 1880. Just now
passenger men are encouraging people
10 remain at home until the strike
troubles are over.
Over in England one entqrprisiug
manufacturer Of In !chinery has recent
ly brought out an apparatus by which
retail coal dealers may make up the
dust OF the yards into coal briqusttes
NJ the rate Of u ton an hour. The ma
chine does not occupy much room, re-
Qaires little power and is largely auto
matte Tue coal dust aud bin ling ma
terial. usually pitch, are fed into
mixing and measuring machine, which
mixes them together 10 the proper pro-
portion. Then the MAS falls iu to dis
lntegrAtor, where it is ground up and
mixed some more. From this disintegra-
Tor Il telt conveyor lifts the paste into
vertical heater where steam Is used 10
raise the temperature Of the mass until
it is sticky. Then it is fed along to
still aDother pulverizng and GRADING
apparatus. which fnally discharges it
into moulds Here it is subjected to a
pressure for about two tons to the
,quare inch, which Is sufficient to turn
out square cake of fusl weighing any
where from three-qu,rters Of pound
to three pounds, as may be desired.
The briquettes ara usually sold to small
consumers by number rather than
weight. and on this account the builder
OF the machine las taken particular
care to produce an apparatus which,
though small, will turn out uniform
product
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:
The indianapolis roads are handling
about so per cent. Of their normal tom
mage.
It is said that none of the PRODUCING
companies are receiving the July circular
for coal.
The number striking or idle through
strikes so far this year has already ex-
ceeded 500, 900.
Lehigh operators say that orders were
never scarcer than at present, while prices
are very low. There has been falling of
in prices recently.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad company
has put train on the road to carry moth.
ing but express goods. The train will run
daily, except Sunday.
John Lazarus, traffic manager OF the
Indianapolis, Decatur and Western,
states that the company is loading con-
siderable wheat on the line.
Pig iron west is commanding 25 cent;
per ton, and cattle, hogs and sheep are
noticeahly higher, even at far western
markets, where receipts are restricted
During July 1877 regular line steamers
are advertised to leave New York for for.
eign ports against 14l last month, and |;
from Philadelphia, against nine last month
Observation-Disclosures