The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-23
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:

Daniel w. Davies of IA Hillside street,
will take the position Of inside foreman
In the Empire shaft.
The production of iron and of Besse-
mer steel continues as heavy as hereto
fore, and quotations have been further
shaded.
Current decreases in railroad earn
ings are ascribed to the effect of the
heavy Worlds fair passenger traffic
year ago.
1t is understood that John Wanna
maker has not made any effort to cap
ture the Reading presidency since his
interview with Mr.. Sinnott.
The belief grows that all the Reading
company needs, after reorganization,
Is an equitable percentage of the coal
output to insure dividends on the stock.
d. Melindwr Jones has resigned his
position as fire boss at the Forty Fort
colliery, having secured a position as
inside foreman for the Kingston Coal
company.
The Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal COM
pany have bought four new sets of
high pressure boilers for their No. a
Wharton slope. Two cars will be hoist
ed each trip.
Twenty-Five machinists have been
added to the force at the Lehigh VAL
ley's Wilkes-Barre shops, as the COM
pany Is in need Of the engines which
are out of repair.
The Green Mountain slope, situated
five miles from Honeybrook and oper-
ated by the Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre
Coal company, was idle four days last
week, owing to high water
Henry Williams, for long time fore
man of the No. Silver Brook colliery
has handed in his resignation. He
will hereafter be located at Shenan-
doah, where he has accepted a more
lucrative position.
The fiume Of the Lehigh &, Wilkes
Barre Coal company, just completed at
Honeybrook, is the largest in the re-
gion. 1t is 1850 feet in length,91s feet
wide and A feet deep. 1t contains 1885,
900 feet of lumber
The volume of clearings for six busi-
ness days ended with Oct. IS is $3.50, ,OOO,.
900, or 2.3 per cent more than in the
preceding week, and 2.5 per cent. larger
than in the third week of October last
year, but nearly 81 per cent smaller
than In the corresponding week in 1892.
B. A. Cunningham, of South Bethle..
hem, has just received the appointment
of division engineer of the Lehigh Val
ley railroad to have charge of the
North Branch and Seneca divisions
with headquarters at Sayre, recently
placed in charge of Superintendent Els,
ser.
The nine stationary boilers which ex.
ploded at the Henry Clay colliery Sha,
mokin, several weeks ago. have been
replaced temporarily with six locomo-
tlves, to be used as stationary boilers
to do work at the colliery until new
and improved stationary boilers can be
secured.
Daniel L. Davis, who has been fire
boss in the Hollenback No. 4, Lehigh
and Wilkes-Barre Coal company, for a
number of years, was appointed to fill
the position of inside foreman at the
Empire No. 4, the foremanship at the
Empire being made vacant by the re,
moval of Samuel Griffiths to the Hollen,
back, where he now is assistant fore
man.
The Kaska William colliery is one of
the very Oldest coal mines. 1t was
worked as long ago as 1885, After hav.
ing lain idle for about twenty years,
Truman M. and Charles M. Dodson Sc
cured lease on the mine. They organ,
lied the new company and in the face
OF the industrial depression vigorously
developed the property. Only one-half
OF the breaker, which will have a ca
pacity of 1000 tons day, is finished.
The other half is being completed as
rapidly as possible, and the entire plant
VIII be In operation very soon.