The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-11-09
TRIBUNE-FR1DAY g. 1894.

liery has suspended operations until the
necessary repairs are made.
On or about Nov. lake navigation
abled to take firmer stand as regards
rates.
The Western New York and Pennsyl-
vania railroads earnigns for the quarter
ended Sept. so show an increase in net
of S45, 1858.
The October pay rolls of the Pennsyl-
vania lines will show about 20 per cent.
more paid out to shop employees than
for September wages.
The largest car wheel works in the
United States south of the Ohio river
will be put in operation next week at
Lenoir, Tenn, employing several hun
dred men.
The Connecticut railroad commission
in report on the New England rail-
road says that the property has decid-
edly improved in condition during the
past year.
A large amount of northern capital
will, it is said, be invested in the south
during the next two months, much Of
which Will be for the development of
coal lands.
The head of one of the largest firms
in machinery states that in the last
two weeks he has doubled his working
force, and the prospects for trade are
much brighter from the orders he has
booked since Nov. /.
The fact that the Pennsylvania COM
pany is moving much the larger per
cent. of its through freight traffic be-
tween the sea board and Chicago over
the Panhandle lines, instead of the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago, is
| exciting comment.
The depressed times have struck the
Philadelphia and Reading hard. In
September, and probably for October,
both the railroad and the coal COM
pany will fail to meet their fixed and
current charges, and for the ten months
the companies are $2,574,4O7 short of
meeting the obligations of the fiscal
| year.
The work Of removing the water from
the old abandoned Reno slope, neal
Shamokin, goes slowly on. The large
pole pump which gave such good SER
vice after being submerged for the
past twelve years has given out and
the management are compelled to hoist
the water with tank cars, which is q
very slow and tedious method.
The Edgar Thompson steel mills ir
October turned out $4,000 tons of stee
rail, the largest output of any month in
the history of the works. This month
the works will run but five days of thC
week. The phenomenal run Of October
Is explained by some of the workmer
by the statement that the October pro
duction Is to be used as basis for the
scale for the succeeding three years
and it was very desirable that a goot
showing be made.
Notwithstanding the agreement en-
tered into by the anthracite coal sale.
agents to allow unlimited production
this month, the Readings tonnage fol
the week ended Nov. 8 shows a decreas,
Of 2,74O tons, the total having been 269,
173 tons, against 271 913 tons for the cor
responding period last year. For tn,
fiscal year to the date named the com
pany's tonnage has aggregated II 1,254,
GAL tons, decrease as compared will
the same period last year of S57 ,402 tons
Operations are being pushed at tn
Henry Clay colliery, but the big plan
is still suffering for want of steam
Four new tubular boilers are fired up
says the Shamokin Dispatch, and tw,
others will be in readiness by the end o
the week. Six Of the old nest of cylln
der boilers are still in use, but are onl,
carrying fifty pound pressure of stean
each. 1t is evidently the intention o
the company to abandon these as sool
as they can be replaced by boilers o
the tubular pattern.