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

The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern Railway company has 5C4 locomotives;
the Erie, 664, and the Pennsylvania, 1,G25'
Each engine is worth $4,000 on an aver
age.
For the eleven months ended with Nov.
30, the shipments of coal by the whitney
syndicate from Cape Breton were 1000
tons in excess of the same period last
year.
p. b. Heilner, of the Lehigh and Wilkes
Barre Coal company, of New York, says
that no matter what may be done out
side of his company he will stand by pres
ent circular prces
The Reading railroad reports that its
coal shipment (estimated) for the week
ended Dec was 20S,0OO tons, of which 49,
00e tons were sent to Port Richmond and
5000 ton to New York waters.
Work on the Scranton and Pittston Su-
burban company's street railway line
from Pittston to Avoca is going along
nicely. The workmen are at present lay
ing rails on Avoca's main street.
The Pennsylvania railroad reports that
the quantity of coal and coke originating
on and carried over its lines east of Pitts
burg and Erie for the week ended Dec. l
was 4l7,953 tons, of which SO9,5O6 tons were
coal and 10S,H7 tons coke.
Private capitalists have leased the
Pennsylvania railroad tract around West
Hazleton, and will bore for coal The
Pennsylvania people have driven large
number of holes but failed to find enough
coal to warrant any further expenditure.
The extension of the Wyoming Valley
oil ntt,i, ttal
Lackawanna and Bloomsbury Junction
to Duryea is being pushed to completion
as rapidly as possible, and not many
weeks will elapse ere the line is opened
for travel. The wires are now being
strung.
There has been rumors abroad the past
few days. says the Gazette, of the forma-
ton of rival electric line from Pittston
to Wilkes-Bar Several prominent Pitts
tonians have been mentioned as active
promoters of the proposed new road, but
each and every one of them approached
on the subject has denied any connection
with the rival line.
The officials of the Williamsport and
North Branch railroad held an import
ant meeting at Williamsport recently, at
which time Benjamin G. Welch rendered
his resignation as general manager, r.
+. Evanson being elected to the position.
Mr. Evanson has for some time been as
sistant general manager. S. d. Townsend.
who has been connected with the road
since its infancy, was chosen general
freight and passenger agent, and will per-
form also the duties which heretofore de-
volved upon p. Murray Newman, tray
cling representative of this department.
mi
bearish in coal matters, says the 'indi-
vidual coal operators are still seriously
considering the state of trade The at
tempt to equalize tide and line prices
has not been wholly successful, and there
Is now a movement among some of the
larger individual producers to arrange
with the carrying companies, with whom
they have contracts for the purchase of
coal to rescind them for a stated period
and handle the coal themselves. This
would benefit some individual producers
and the trade. The talk of strike
among the miners is not regarded seri-
ously."
The Ontario, Carbondale and Scranton
Railway company, operating between
Scranton and Jackson, N. Y, has at last
filed in the department of internal af-
for the fiscal year ended June 80, 1891.
The report should have been filed on or
before Aug. 81 last as provided by law,
and comes too late to be compiled with re-
ports of other companies operating in the
state now in the hands of State Printer
Busch. The company has been certified
by Secretary Stewart to the attorney gen.
eral for the collection of the S., 600 penalty
provided for by the act of 1889 governing
these corporations. Some of the officers
of the company claim they supposed the
report had been filed and that the refusal
or neglect to make the report was due to
the negligence of the company's secre-
tary, who resides in New York city. Sec
retary Stewart has refused to accept the
report and will insist upon the collection
of the penalty.
If the possession of railroads and tele-
graphs Is a gauge of civilization then the
United States certainly stands far ahead
of any other nation. OF railroads Amer
lea has 2lS,S7lh miles or 81 200. miles more
than all of the remaining countries of the
world combined. All Europe has but 14i,
359 miles, while Asia, Notwithstanding its
immense size counts only 232l91a miles.
Africa has 72l2la miles and Australia Il,
6S5 miles of iron. For every 10000 inhab-
itants in the United States there are 2512
miles of railroad, while in Europe the
proportion falls to 4.22 miles per 10000 IN
habitants. With our eXpanse of country
we have 4,913 miles of road per 100 square
miles, while In densely- y-setted Europe
the mileage is but 1882 per 100 square miles.
The worlds railways cost the enormous
sum of $33, 500, 600 900 or an average of $l2l,
| 260.SS per mile. The cheapest roads are in