The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-07
This amount Of oil will run an engine
about 150 miles.
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:

MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:
Work in the mines at Oneida is booming
et present. with fair prospect of continu-
ance.
The Reading company sent about l72 coal
trains of forty.eight cars each to market
last week. The output for this week, 1T is
predicted, will be much larger.
The Readings coal tonnage for the week
ended June decreased 6,9S4 tons making
the decrease for the part OF the year eE-
pired to that date 1907, 1871 10 tons.
The Pennsylvania management officially
announces that on account OF the depres-
sion in business it has abandoned it pro-
posed extension through Johnstown, Pa.
Anthracite coal is still beng shipped
west via the Baltimore and Ohio. Much
Of this is consigned to East St. Louis, and
is in all sizes. Heavy shipments are also
being made to eastern cities.
The Cross Creek Coal company have
placed an order for the construction Of
| two hundred mine cars with the Blooms
burg Car company. These cars will be
used in the mines at Oneida.
Three shifts are employed sinking u
slope into the Old Silver Brook works, and
judging by the rapid progress made it will
not be long until this aperture will serve
rs passage way for hundreds of loaded
cars daily.
The storage capacity at Roam Junction
will be increased to double what it IS now.
This is done so as to enabls the Cross
Creek Coal company to store its coal dur
| ing the dull season. 1t will, when COM
pleted, have storage capacity of $50, 900
tons.
James Tully was engineer and Thomas
Slattery, conductor. Of the first through
train Of oXe's coal run over the Valley
road TO Perth Amboy under the Delaware.
Susquehanna and Schuylkils new track
ago agreement. The train consisted Of 40
cars.
Conductor Tom Callahan, with Lehigh
| Valley engine No 4, drawing private cars
| Nos. 1853 and 3j4, j. hauling President g.
| p. Wilbur Chief Engineer Charles Web
sier, j. /, Biakslee, Of Mauch Chunk, and
others on an inspection tour of the Lehigh
Valley road.
Several more trains from the Delaware,
Susquehanna and Schuylkill are booked
| TO run to Perth Amboy this week. One
Of these will probably be sent out tomor-
row. Beginuing with July |, the reg
ular run viii be begun. This will give
employment to at least 100 extra train
Dauds.
George Stevens, general manager Of the
Chesapeake and Ohio, has made expert
ments in lighting the vestbule traiu5 on
the road by electrical storage battery, gas
and kerosene, In thirty-three storage bat
terry cars, twenty .one gas cars and 137
kerosene cars he finds that lighting by
electricity is IL per cent. cheaper than gas
and 7Oper cent. more than by kerosene.
The Carter q Allen shops at Tamaqua
one of the largest manufacturing plants in
the state, which a few years ago gave en-
| ployment to as many as COO men, but which
have been idle for five or six years, have
been sold to the Vulcan Iron Works of
Wilkes-Barre. The new proprietors will
prepare 10 start up at once with n force Of
nearly 200 hands.
The present low average selling price of
anthracite coal is said by the Stakeholder
TO be due to the fact that the proportion
of smaller sizes marketed is becoming
greater. This, however, does not indicate
that the average profit of mining is any
lesg. The cost Of producing the smaller
sizes il so much less that the percentage
of profit is at least rs great, if not great
er, than before.