The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-13
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

The new tunnel that Is being driven In
tba No 10 slope at Beaver Brook for The
past few months has now reached dis-
tance of 1lS feet.
1t Is understood that Lehigh Valley rail-
road authorities contemplate taxing meas
ures to legally punish persons who oriSi-
mated the receivership stories current last
week.
Superintendent Vandling, Of the coal de-
partment of the Delaware and Hudson
company, has issued an order putting the
mines of that company on half and three
quarters time alternately.
Samuel Jones, of EdwardsVille, mas ac-
cepted Il position as assistant mine Tore
man at the Gaylord colliery, Plymouth.
Mr.. Jones is Il practical miner, ana was
one of the rescuers of the thirteen men en-
tombed in that colliery.
Superintendent Alfred Smith, who has
been connected with the late j. II. Swoy-
ers interests for .the past twenty-seVeh
years, has resigned his position as su-
perintendent of the Forty Fort and Harry
r.. collieries. now leased by Simpson &
Watkins, and has accepted position as
SUPERINTENDENT of large colliery near
Pottsville. Mr.. Smith will move his fam
lily to Pottsville.
as compiled by the Financial Chronicle,
show a slight improvement. For the third
week of February eighty-one roads show
an increase of 0SS per cent; for the fourth
week siXty-four roads report an increase
of 1922 53l, or 5.Sj per cent, while for the
entire month cighty-seven roads report
gross earnings of $2G,l9l $3.50, decrease OF
$j22, ,S99, or l.95 per cent.
The new tunnel that Is being driven
northward in the No. 4 slope at Audenried,
gives bright promises of the early discoV-
cry of a profitable vein. There was a VEN
discovered in the tunnel several weeks
ago, but in the hopes of finding another
the tunnel work continued. Last week
small seam of coal presented itself in
the face and in q few days good vein or
coal may materialiZe
No. II slope at Pleasant Hill will he
deepened within the next few months
l43 feet to the basin Of the north pitch.
| The officials have decided to deepen No ii
and through it take the greater part OF
the product of the vein to the surface. To
reach the vein from the bottom of No. II
slope 1i3 feet of the hardest kind of rock
will have to be cut and this will consume
at least three months. The pitch of the
slope will be 1872 degrees. Contractor
Hughes will perform the work.
Philadelphia Inquirer: The New York
anthracite companies now begin to see
| their mistake in having followed up the
Reading so persistently until htey have
driven 1t into corner. 1t is now going
| to fight In 1852. after the first Reading re-
| organization, that company shipped TO
market almost exactly 7,OOoOO0 tons of
| coal out of a total of 29,l2O,000 tons pro-
duced. The company has always been one
| of the firmest in the matter of prices, and
| not one has stood up for a. year past with
as much firmness as this, and yet the
other companies, by their cutting and
other underhand practices, have so en-
croached upon its business that out of the
| Al, ,39i, 900 tons shipped to market last year
| the Reading furnished but S,.S6,O0O tons.
| In other words, 1t is putting no more coal
| into the competitive market now than II
| did thirteen years ago, its whole increase
| having gone into its own local markets.
| The Reading owns 30 per cent. of the un-
| mined coal in the country, 1t has terminal
| facilities in this city unequaled on the
| Atlantic coast, and by very moderate
| expenditure ii could double the number OF
| It's producing collieries and could handle
| the increased business. No other COM
| pany can do this. The sentiment of the
| bondholders and stockholders of the
dent Harris firm policy for an increase
| in the share of the trade. and the fight
will be pushed with vigor from this end.