The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-06

of the personal property, but as the sheriff
could find none, an alias was Issued
and under this the franchises of the COM
pany have been levied on and viii be sold
unless the amount Is paid. The company
has not been making any money for sew
eral years and it Is probable that the sale
will be allowed to 30 on and that the
road will be bought in and reorganized.
Beech Creek shippers who took the
Grand Trunk soft coal contract at such
low price are said to have captured the
New York and New England railroad con-
tract at ruinous figures. 1t is said the
price was $40 alongside at Boston. AL
lowing 75 cents for vessel freight from
Philadelphia to Boston and $l.40 for the
railroad freight, but 20 cents would be
left for the coal at the mines. OF course
this Is absurd. The claim is that the
Beech Creek has cut the freight rate ut
least 80 cents a ton and probably 35 The
Grand Trunk contract figures out that
Mr.. Yates, the contractor, sells his coal
for Al cents at the mines, providing he
pays the Beech Creek the $l.iO freight rate,
No one, however, believes he pays that
sum.
Additional statistics from the forth
coming report of the secretary of internal
affairs on the railroads for 1894 show
among other things that the tendency OF
both freight and passenger rates has been
downward. The rate per ton on the
Pennsylvania system has fallen from 6Gl
TO .607, and other roads in proportion.
The secretary says the rates of the rail-
ways in Pennsylvania. as well as those
throughout the United States, are much
more favorable to the shipper than the
rates of the railways of any other nation.
The total passenger earnings for the year
were S67,Sl5. .96S, and total freight earnings
SlG6, III ,253; other earnings, $3.5l0.30S; max
ing II gradn total of SOS, ,037, 500; as against
S27l, SN for the year previous. There
has been a falling off of millions in the
earnings of the various lines. During the
year there We're 81 passengers killed, as
against 10 the year before, and 703 were in
jured OF the employees there We're 800
killed and 6,5l9 injured, as against Coo
killed and S,SiS injured in 1923.
Hazleton Standard: The opening Of an
other tunnel, second only to that of the
famous Jeddo tunnel, Is now being dis
cussed. The project If 1t materialiZes, Is
for the purpose of draining all the collier
les of the South Side from Silver Brook to
Beaver Meadow. The scheme was talked
of three years ago, and the route sur
Veyed, but this Is all the farther 1t ever
got. The serious losses sustained by the
coal companies during the past two years
have nurtured u deep feeling of interest
among operators for the welfare of their
mines against invasions of water and after
years of dickering and figuring 1t is said
that the only possible hope to protect
their works from heavy floods is the driv-
ing of a tunnel from the level at the bot
tom of the Switch Back mountain to the
center of the mining industry on the South
Side, a distance of three or four miles.
n "a hni rnI .
of the surveys by one of the leading sur
veyois of Schuylkill county, and it remains
for him and his assistants to recommend
the project to the operators. Upon his
decision depends largely the execution of
such scheme. If he reports 1t favorably
convention of mine owners and practical
mine foremen will be called and the plans
that are now being formed will be sub
mitted for their inspection and approval