The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-20
INDUSTRIAL.

"A deal has just been consummated be-
tween a coal company composed of Isaac
b. Fe,ts, B. Il. Leonard, George w. Miines
and George Mcdonald. of Scranton, ana
John s. McGroarty, of Wilkes-Barre, on
the one side and the heirs and executors
of the William Maffitt estate ON the other,'
says the Wilkes-Barre News-Dealar.
Whereby the above-named gentlemen
have leased the colliery, mines and coal
property at Sugar Notch lately operated
by the Hanover Coal company. Inc las-
ter company quit operations indefinitely
some months ago on account of being un-
able to reach an agreement with the
Maffit heirs concerning the royalties to
be paid. The Hanover company's lease
expired Tuesday and the Matfit heirs
signed the lease Immediately after grant
ing the new company the right to operate
the works. The five gentlemen to whom
the works are leased will at once COM
mence getting things in readiness for re-
sumng operations full blast, and within
four weeks the coiliery will be in opera
ton. This is joyous news to the people
of Sugar Notch ard vicinity, several hum
dred of whom were thrown out of en-
ployment when the works shut down a
few months ago. The welcome news has
been circulated for several weeks past,
but until NOW nothing has been osrtnin.
Now that 1t is an assured fact that the
colliery will shortly resume Sugar Notch
viii begin 20 retrieve the animation 1t has
lost and business will take on big boom.
Messrs. Fehs, Leonard, Mines, McGroar-
ty and Mcdonald have also formed
Heat, Light and Moter company and
have secured charter for the same. They
have been granted the privilege of laying
wires and erecting pcles In the borough of
Avoca. Ashley. Sugar Notch and Warrior
Run and II Is the company's intention TO
build a power-house In Sugar Notch near
the Maffit breaker that will generate the
electricity required to heat and light Su-
gar Notch. Warrior Run and Ashley. cs-
pecially for the centrally located, Sugar
Notch, where the power house will be
built. The large cuim piles surrounding
the colliery will be utilized as fuel for the
power house. 1t is the intention of the
company to bnild "wagnery" als\
through which to run the culnl. and thus
to turn out several grades of coal. Pat
rick NJ. Boyle, now of Hazleton. will he
the new company's mining superintendent
end Mr.. Milne will be the general man
ager."
Nnts Of Railroad News.
Ten-ride party tickets are said to be
causing considerable trouble in the pas
senger situation south-bound from 81.
Paul.
Inc tlpSGDtdke ana OTllO mas COIllilDut-
ed 81, 900 and the Southern s., 200 toward the
rebuilding of the University of Virginia.
at Chariottesville.' Va, recently destroyed
by fire.
The Pennsylvania employs 47.000 men,
and paws out annually to them s36 900, 900;
the Panhandle lines employ $500 men, and
the wages paid annually are sS,000 900; the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago en-
rloys 10. 900 men, and pays them annually
81. zoo. GOO.
1t has been decided by the western lines
that tlhe sale of half-fare tickets to clergy
men by one road to points on another is
a matter of agreement between individual
roads, as the new half-fare permit agree
ment does not cover the matter in any
way.
The agreement between the city of Lon
don. ont. and the Grand Trunk for che
crest,on of the company's shops In Ess.
London has been ratified by the council,
and VIM be forwarded to the company's
authorities at Montreal for acceptance.
The shops must be erected within one