The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-07
Industrial and Commercial.

pnla ana Baltimore traction companies
were filed. The works have also built
bridges for Philadelphia and Washing
ton. October's output of rails-27 900
tons-was the largest months tonnage
the rail mill has made in four years.
During the week of Oct II over 1900
tons We're made, and on several days
almost 700 tons We're rolled. On Satur-
day $4,000 We're paid out in wages to
about 3,7OO men. The prospects for No
vember favor steady work in nearly all
branches.
In New York city, and, for that mat
ter, in all the Atlantic tidewater trade,
the Engineering and Mining Journal
finds that dealers, both large and
small, are well supplied with Goals.
The movement of coal during the past
week has Stacked off, and since dealers
are not selling much they are buying
little or none. 1t is only justice to the
producers to say that in all probability
they have been, and are, selling more
coal than they can mine, although the
figures for last week show that little
more than 100000 tons was mined dur
ing the week ending last Saturday. The
reason for this anomaly-for it is moth
ing less when one considers the fact
that everybody is supposed to be work
ing on full time-is that there has been
a marked shortage'of cars. At this time
Of the year cars are scattered all over
the country. Anthracite producers find
it impossible at the present time to get
the transportatio facilities which they
enjoyed last June when the great soft
coal strike was at it's height, and BIZ
luminous coal cars We're brought into
service to make possible the record
breaking anthracite tonnage Of June,
1894 The tonnage for November will
not be as great as last June's. At least
it looks that way now, and producers
ought to rejoice that such is the case.
We find a truly remarkable unanimity
among the sales agents in the declara-
ton that no new business has been
done at the new prices. The fact that
the new rates have not obtained Is not
strange, but that the agents freely con-
fess it most certainly is. Everywhere
we are told that prices are firmer.
They may be firmer but they are not
| higher. 1t will have to be an eXcep-
| tionally severe winter if the eXpecta-
| tons of the sales agents are to be real
lied so far as getting the new prices is
( concerned.
heabandoned mine recently pumped
| by the Cross Creek Coal company is
being placed in working condition. The
/ coal will be taken through No. slope,
Beaver Meadow, for while at least,
when it is anticipated trestle will be
constructed over the Valley tracks, and
| the mineral taken directly to the
/ breaker. A tunnel is being driven now
| from No. to connect with the slope in
! question. A track is to be constructed
on the slope and preparations to put an
/ engine in position are being made.
The officials of the Lehigh and Wilkes
Barre Coal company find it necessary
! to make some Improvements on the
Honey Brook No. colliery. A large
addition was built to the breaker about
a month ago that has the effect of al
most doubling its capacity There is
! however, an obstacle in the way and
it is manifesting itself vividly, for a
! large amount of coal has been con-
! demned during the past few weeks
This obstacle can only be remedied by
| placing pump at the colliery to furnish
water to wash the coal, as it Is difficult
to separate the good from the bad when
the mineral is run through the screen
without being washed Acting upon
practical judgment, says the Hazetor
Standard, the officials have had an ole
GAINESVILLE pump repaired at the Au.
denried machine shops during the past
two weeks and are now placing it ii
position for work.
Jacob Williams, who for a number OF
years has been employed as a coal ship.
per by a. Pardee & Co., since the change
has occurred, has been promoted to the
position of boss of the coal shippers al
Cranberry and Crystal Ridge. A large
office will be erected at once.
The Cross Creek Coal company, hav.
ng pumped No. slope, found it to be a
remunerative investment, hence the de.
cesion to pump the Temperance" and
Greenfield" old slopes. These works
were abandoned a quarter of a century
ago, and the maps since that time have
been destroyed, making it impossible tc
work a piece of coal in Coleraine No. .
coliery. Such places can be worked
proiitably because of the revised code
of mining laws and the thorough re.
searches practlced at the present time
c. NJ. DOdson & Co., who operate the
Morea colliery, are availing themselves
of every possible effort to obtain O
larger supply of coal at that collery
They have within the past two weeks
awarded a contract for the sinking oI
a shaft to the basin of the deposit il
view of cutting the deepest seams anC
developing them for production. ThC
shaft is now about fifty feet in depth ant
is being driven through the hardes
kind of rock. 1t is thought that at leas
four hundred feet will have to be pierced
before the desired deposit is reached. A
shaft was opened some time since in tn,
mine and after being driven less thar
fifty feet it had to be abandoned OF
account of a surplus Of water.