The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-09
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

form with the new basis at the Coal
and Iron company's mines.
Another coal operators combine has
been formed among the small Hooking
Valley operators. The new corporation
has a capital stock of 100000, and will
be known as the Ohio Central Fuel COM
pany.
Wilkes-Barre Record: Reese Brooks,
of Scranton, is getting to be one of the
biggest barons in the trade. He takes
big chances because he has lots of
nerve, and enjoys thorough under
standing of the coal measures.
James II. Mahon, who has acted as
| coal inspector at the Separat0rs at
Plymouth, has been removed to Miners
Mills to take charge of the culm break
ers there. His brother will fill the
vancancy.
Congressman Wolverton, of Sunbury,
has bought the property of the Ma
thaniel Taylor Coal company, at Mt.
Carmel, for 100000; 2,700 acres of coal
land, breaker etc. A tract of 2,040
acres was also bought by him for $685.
600.
Beginning Wednesday the colleries
of the Reading Coal and Iron company
in the Lykens Valley district will work
a full week three-fourth time instead of
three days at three-fourth time. The
news was given to the miners last
evening.
From the twelfth annual report of the
| New York commission of labor statis-
| tics 1t appears that recent improve
ments in labor saving machinery, es-
| pecially in the printing trade, have
caused decrease in the number of en-
ployes from 20 per cent. to G6 2-3 per
cent; in other branches of industry the
decrease will average IS per cent, and
in some instances it runs as high as 60
per cent
The question, HAS a reduction of
wages been prevented by the fact of
the existence of your organization?" is
answered by GIL labor organizations in
New York state. Five hundred and
| forty-three organizations report that
| they prevented wage reductions, nine
ty-five say that they were unable to pre-
| vent decreases in the rates of pay and
thirty-three state that there has been
no demand for reduction.
Wilkes-Barre Record: The Scranton
parties who have leased the Newport
mines from the Lackawanna and
| Wilkes-Barre, at Newport, lately oper-
ated by Charles Parrish and Others
have commenced sinking the shaft 200
feet deeper so as to strike two more
veins. Further down is still another
| vein-the red ash, which for this time
will not be touched. Several months
will be required to make the projected
improvements, when employment will
be given to 500 men and boys. The new
| company has applied for charter. The
property comprises $50 acres of coal
| land, breaker, and Sc tenement houses
| The shaft is now 200 feet deep and
| reaches two veins five and six feet thick
respectively.
Hazleton Plain-Speaker: AS the de-
mand for small sized coal is far in ex-
cess of the output, Coke Bros. G. Co.
are seriously considering the advisable
ity of erecting several coal washeries
| in order to reclaim thousands of tons
of chestnut, buckwheat, pea and rice
coal, which now lies imbedded in the
old culm banks in the vicinity of their
various colieries. 1t isprobable that two
or more of the washeries will be erected
within a few months. Experienced mine
workers maintain that the big culm
| bank that has been standing on the
Buck mountain tract during the past
| thirty years is the prize of the region, as
| no slate picker refuse was ever dumped
| upon it and they predict that it will
| yield from so to 60 per cent. of pea.
| chestnut, buckwheat and rice coal One
| plan that is being considered in con-
nection with this washery is the advis-
ability of pumping the water which will
come out of the new tunnel into a big
| tank and then erecting the necessary
screens for separating the coal from the
| culm and sizing it properly and use
| mine water from the tank for washing
PURPOSES The pumping machinery is
| about ready to be started up and this
| old slope will soon be relieved of the
water with which it has been filled for
| the past thirty years. 1t is also stateo
| on good authority that washerjes will
be erected at Sandy Run. Eckley and
| Pond Creek.
The subcommittee of the representa-
tives of the leading companies in the
anthracite coal trade with a view OF
| putting it on a reasonable business
basis. reported to the full committee in
| New York on Tuesday. The report was
| so full of figures that il was ,mani-
mously agreed to take n week off and
look into IL fully. The preliminary wor,,
of the committee has been immense
but as everybody knows what the mat.
ter is It looks as If Some time had bean
wasted. "From the producinp noint of
view" remarks the pbiIadelnbia pras.
"a valuable mineral 10 being removed
from the ground and given owaw no