The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-01-25


Dryden Is in Charge of the Work
Other Cosby Paragraphs Relating
to New Deals and Incidents Among
the States Many Industries.
The Delaware and Hudson company
who have colliery at Vandling about
a half mile below Forest City, began
work Monday morning at place east
Of the little railroad crossing" on
Main street, for the purpose of testing
the quality Of the coal in the upper
vein which underles part Of Forest
City, Alex Dryden has charge of
the workmen who are sinking the trial
shaft
The coke trade is getting into de-
cidedly bad shape. Present prices Of
coke are ruiuous. The circular price
is 81 per ton, the average price about
80 cents, and the minimum price is
said to be as low as So cents. Never
before in the history 'of the Connsll-
vile region has coke been sold at so
low price. 1t cannot go much lower
without resulting in heavy losses to the
operators. and they are already suffer
ing at present prices.
The Jersey Central has men at work
on their South Wilkes-Barre double
tracks putting in movable frogs and
double splices. These appliances, while
seemingly complicated. are intended,
when reinforced by an elaborate sys-
TEN of automatic signals. to greatly
reduce the liability TO accident.
The Mauch Chunk Daily News, that
Carbon county journalism, has wisely
devoted much Of its attention to chron.
icling the activities of the industries
of its neigh borhood. Such activities
are, after all, the ones which really
count. Activity in crime or activity in
politics is far less intrinsicaily i'm
portant. The TRIBUNE, which the
News is kind enough to credit with
having way all its own of compil-
ing industrial news" cheerfully ac-
knOwledges its frequent indebtedness
to its young Carbon county contempt.
rary for information Of genuine inter-
est.
A dispatch from Warren, Pa, says
1t is said here that 800. 600 is to be ex-
pended on improvements Of the Dun
kirk, Allegheny Valley and Pittsburs
railroad between Dunkirk and this city.
The line extends from Dunkirk to tt
tusville and the announcement is said
to mean the beginning of the extension
of the Lake Shore to connect with thu
Beech Creek and the Buffalo, Roches-
ter and Pittsburg systems at Dubois
Plans are in hand for four new steel
hridges on the Dunkirk, Allegheny
Valley and Pittsburg, and contracts
are made to lay S5-pound steel rails
along the line, The road was built as
a feeder for the Lake Shore from the
hemlock timber region. and later got
big business from the oil country. To,
cutting down of the forests and the de
cline in oil had their effect and, in or
der to make it pay, it is proposed
to extend it to DuBois. The road
has already line graded within six
miles of Oil City, where work was
stopped because of an injunction Sc.
cured by the Oil Creek road, now a
part of the Western New York and
Pennsylvania. which has just been dis
solved.
A circular hostile to the Wilbur
management is said to be in circula
ton among disaffected Lahigh Valley
stockholders. The circular asks this
question: If Mr.. Harris says that the
road while operated by the r ,aiing
with all its enormous through trade
should lose almost $1,000, 900 in eight
months under the same management
how was it possible without the
Through business" and under the
same management to clear $780, 900 in
seven months after deductins the )st
Of great striker
An effort is in progress among Phila-
delpbia coal shippers to break down
the association rates, and as vessel
owners are resoluts not TO carry that
commodity atarate below that agreed
upon many vessels are at the present
time living there idle. The stream be-
tween Kaighn's Point and Greenwich
is crowded with schooners awaiting a
change in the condition of affairs. and
many brokers are much dispieassd
with the report that two vessels were
chartered at rates below the minimum
agreed upon by the association. Fot
nearly two weeks past business has
been at an almost complete standstill
There are upward of fifty schooners
tied up at Philadelphia.
1t is generally expected. says tn
Philadelphia Times, that when OK
President Mcleod, of the Reading. i
called to the witness stand in the Ric
suit for the removal of the Reading re.
ceivers he will disclose some very in.
teresting facts In connection with thu
purchase of the Boston and Maine and
New England stocks Mr.. Mcleod ha
expressed willingness to give full
explanation of the facts in connection
with the control Of the above named
roads. He courts the most thorough
investigation of his alleged stock spscu
lations.
LITTLE News PICKINGs
The Lehigh Valley railroad has ordered
| Its car cleaners to uncouple and couple tn
air brakes on passenger trains, much t
the JOY Of brakemen.
Only one coal train passed down tn,