The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-13

Is to be completed within a year. The
specifications provide that the road shall
be laid with S0-pound steel rails and
shall be so ballasted and constructed as
to permit electric trains to attain a
speed of sixty miles and hour.
Carnegie's big steel plant at Home
stead may soon add another depart
ment and make guns for the govern
ment. 1t is said that the company will
expend $500,000 upon the plant on receiv-
ing the assurance that it will get the
contracts. In his annual report Com
modore Sampson, chief of the naval
ordnance bureau, calls for $500,000 to be
expended in beginning to provide arma-
ment for the steamers registered under
the provisions of the subsidy acts, which
make them available for use by the
United States as transports or cruisers.
In case such vessels as the New York,
Paris or the new st. Louis should be
called into service it would require
many months to provide batteries for
them. No guns are now available for
the purpose and none are authorized.
Last Saturday evening, says the
Hazleton Standard, the last shovel full
of clay was removed from the No. 3
Wharton stripping at Tresckow. Dick
& Mantz had steam shovel working
there for the past year in which time
many thousand yards Of clay were
removed. When the Lehigh and Wilkes
Barre company opened up the vein to
remove some of the coal they discov-
cred it to be fiat failure, the coal be-
ing but two feet thick in many places.
What coal is stripped will be removed,
but no further outlay of cash will be
made there. The steam shovel which
has been engaged in the work will likely
be abandoned for the winter
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:
Nickel Plate net earnings decreased
$50, 265 in the quarter ending Sept. so.
New York Central gross earnings for
October fell off $514,O64, and for the
year to date, $4, 755,O47.
The Gautier mills, at Johnstown,
started on extra runs Monday night,
giving employment to 800 additional
men.
On Nov. IA the passenger department
Of the Central Traffic association will
hold a meeting in Chicago to fix up
holiday rates.
j. w. Morris has retired as general
road master of the New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio, and the Office has
been abolished.
There is talk in New York that the
Chesapeake and Ohio will make a pas
senger traffic arrangement with the
Jersey Central.
Returns Of gross earnings of 107 rail-
roads for October show an average de-
crease of 81 per cent. compared with
those of October, 1893.
Railroad earnings so far as reported
for October are 43 per cent. less than
in October, 1893, and 1-3 per cent. be-
low those of October, 1892.
For ten months ended Oct. 81, 1894
1OS roads, with mileage of O,152 miles
show decreases equivalent to 1879 per
cent. as against results for same period
in 1893.
The Peoria and Eastern has this
week distributed five miles of new steel
on the western division, between Cow
ington and Danville.
Earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul for the first week in No
vember were $597,554, a decrease of
$1SS,607 compared with the correspond
ing week of last year.
King & Co., are making rapid head
way at the Drifton No. stripping
There is an immense body of coal to be
unearthed. 1t will be one of the largest
strippings in the coal regions.
A circular announces that the office
of coal traffic manager of the Wheeling
and Lake Erie has been abolished, and
W. H. Vance has been appointed gen.
eral coal freight agent, with headquar-
ters at Toledo.
The Beaver Brook colliery is under
going radical repairs before the cold
weather sets in. A force of carpenters
are at work closing large holes on the
side Of the structure and the roof is also
receiving attention.
While prices for iron and steel shapes
for Bessemer pig iron and steel billets
are practically steady, there was an.
| other net advance last week in prices
for wheat and lard, and coffee and
sugar advanced fractionally also.
Freight men are not confident that
the order to advance east bound rates
Monday next will be carried out, as the
lake lines are still in the market fol
business and show no inclination to ad.
vance the part water and rail rates
The proposed rock tunnel to be driver
In No. ! slope, Coleraine colliery, II
search of the Buck mountain vein, will
In all probability not begin before Jan
l, although the bids now being received
may prompt the commencement by
Dec. /.
During the month of October 1888
cars We're handled to and from the diff
ferent connections of the Lehigh Val
| ley at Buffalo, which Is an increase OF
little over 16 per cent. as compared
with the corresponding period of las
year.
c. w. Bucholz, who resigned two
JSoio obO uo SlliCl VI TIE
| lines, has returned to the road and ac
cepted his old position, with headquar
ters at New York. A. Mordecai comes
| to Cleveland with the title of assistant
| chief engineer of the Erie lines.
An exceedingly large screen has beer
substituted in Coleraine breaker to tax,
the place of two small ones heretofore
in use. The kind Of coal made by it 1!
pea, and the large quantity prepared
daily proves the one far more practic
| able than two, therefore the change.
Bank clearings at rs cities through
out the United States last week amount
ed to 1850, 900, or 2-5 per cent. NOR,
than in the previous week, 2 per cent
more than in the first week of Novem
Der, 1893, and only 20 per cent smalle
than in the corresponding week TIVE
| years ago.
Chicago Stock Market.
BY the United Press.
| Chicago, Nov. .-Cattle-Recelpts, a1 :
600 head; market weak and lower; com
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