The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-04
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

Erie passes are not honored on the
Delaware and Hudson company's JEFF
ferson division.
The Reading is behind S1,lS3,452 for
the eleven months of the year This
sum includes over a half million spent
for Improvements.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that
another cut will shortly be made in
steel rails and 1t Is not unlikely that the
prices, now that they have started on
the down grade, will reach $40 before
the market acquires anything like sta
bility.
The Erie railroad does not check BIZ
cycles or allow them to be checked over
its lines, but it carries them free under
a release of liability when accompanied
by owner, the owner agreeing to receive
and deliver the machine at the door of
baggage car.
The Mount Vernon Coal company eX-
poets to have its reconstructed Arch
bald breaker ready for operation by
jan !. Twenty thousand dollars have
been expended in improvements. The
daily capacity will be 300 tons at first.
DR., j. NJ. Rice Is general manager.
OF the ninety-three engines on the
Pennsylvania division forty-four are
equipped with the Westinghouse auto
matte air brake and seven others are
now at the company's locomotive works
| for general repairs and similar equip
ment. The balance of the motive power
will be supplied with the safety brake
as rapidly as they can be gotten at.
The Fern Cliff breaker near Archibald
is working daily to its full capacity and
shipping about 1S0 tons of coal to mar
| ket, under the management of Charles
Hawley. The supply for this breaker
Is furnished from the culm dumps OF
the old Filler breaker which has recently
been run by the Pierce Coal company
Ten or tewlve men are employed daily
and the supply will no doubt last for
several years.
Last Friday, Saturday and Sunday
the Lehigh Valley railroad shipped
more coal and freight over the road
than any other three days for the past
few years. on Friday LOSS loaded Goa
cars We're shipped; on Saturday $50 Goa
cars on an eight wheel basis, and SSi
loaded freight cars. The latter were IN
30 trains, averaging 80 cars to a train
Sunday ga loaded freight cars were
hauled from the west to tide water
points and 653 loaded coal cars.
A slight improvement in railraot
earnings is reported. The returns OF
seventy-nine roads for the second weel
of November show gross earnings o
SS77,054, a. decrease of $173,954. or 81,
per cent. as compared with the same
week last year. For the third week o.
November the returns of sixty-twt
roads show gross earnings of $7,431, ,341
an increase of $12,222, or 0.16 per cent
over last year. Only twenty-three roads
out of the siXty-two report decreases
the most important being the st. Paul
which shows a loss of Sill ,227
One of the arguments used in behal
of canal transportation from PittsburI
to Erie is interesting: 1t was pointed
out In an able paper read recently befor
the Society of Engineers of Western
Pennsylvania by George Tener, a Goa
expert, that Pittsburg coal when
reaches the end of the route on the lake
has suffered a loss of from to II pc
cent by its breaking up into dust
About 100000 tons of bituminous Goa
reach the lakes by rail yearly from
Pennsylvania and Ohio. Ten per cent
of this vast quantity, according to MI
Tener, suffers diminutlon in value o
81 ton, which Is to say an actual los
of $300,000 Two-thirds at least of thi