The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-07-08

contract which expires this month. Yes
terday a few miners were working at
| the will, Appollo, Acem, Foscter and
| Clark mines, but nothing was being done
| at these pits today. Such. complete
suspension of mining has not been wit
messed in the Monongaheia valley before
for many years.
Representatives OF several Central
Pennsylvania and West Virginia coal
concerns are in the city. Several opera
tors whose Offices they had visited said
| there would be no trouble. in filling -ur-
gent orders held by the Pittsburg opera
tors, even should the suspension here be-
come thoroughly general 1t was said
that representa- tives Of the Pennsylvania
and West Virginia companies were here
trying to relieve local opera tors Of P IT'S
burg contracts. The West Virginia rep
resenta lives claimed that their state
would be able to supply the whole mar
ket during the strike. but could not at
tempt to ship to the lakes.
According to the miners officials the
suspension in the railroad mines is al
most as complete as it is along the riv-
ers. All the large mines except those
of the New York and Cleveland Gas
Coal company, they claimed, were idle
today. Among the works forced to close
down by the refusal of the diggers to
work they say, are the Pan Handle
mines of NJ. A. Hanna & Co., Beading
Bros, the Robbins company, and the
Pittsburg and Chicago Gas Coal compa-
ny. According to President Dolan's fig
ures, not more than 5000 men were at
work there yesterday and today. This
morning he sent word to various MEM
bers of the district executive committee
and extraordinary efforts will be made
to induce the men still working to come
out
II think" said he, "that before the
week is over you will find that there is
very little Pittshurg coal going out"
These views were not entertained by
the operators, who still asserted that
more men were working than had laid
down their picks.
1t was positively asserted that not
withstanding Dolan's statements that al
the men were out al the mines of the
Pittsburg and Chicago company, twenty
eight cars were loaded at the mines yes
terday and twenty-five care today. If
this is true, the company must have a
nearly full complement Of men, as one
miner is supposed TO dig about four tons
Of coal per day. Dolan's statement that
the Beading mines were idle was also
pronounced untrue by the officials Of the
Beading company.
The mines, they said. are running as
usua,.
A list OF mines compiled by the operat-
orS, which, they said, were being operat-
ed as usual, was as follows: Along the
Pittsburg Virginia and Charleston. the
Allen. Courtney, Stockdaie. Vigilant. Cal
ifornia. Catsburg, Williams and Hurst:
along the Pan Handle railway. Harrison.
CARING, Jumbo, Bore.and, Pan Handle,
Allison and Cook; along the Baltimore
and Ohio railway, Eureka, Hampton.
Lyons Run and Elkins: along the Pitts
burg. McKeesport ond Youghiogheny
railways, Banning. Whitsett, Dorr. West
Newton, Wickhaven, Washington, Port
Royal and Euclid; along the Wheeling d.
vision, Gastonville, Snowden and First
pool: along the Allegheny Valley railway.
the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal
company: at Turtle Creek, the Oak Hill
mines. and the Plum Creek and Sandy
Creek mines were also running.