The San Francisco call., 1897-07-11
A Water Famine Inevitable
Should the Pumps Be
Stopped.
STRIKERS ARE CONFIDENT OF
VICTORY.
They Claim the Railroads Will
Assist Th am Should 1t Be
Necessary.

PITTSBURG, Pa, July 10.-Coal is get
ting scarce, or at least the impending
scarcity is raising prices. Coal was sold
from barges in the riv to-day at cents
a hushe in large lots-iust double the
price usually charged. One of the larg-
est operators in the district told your cor
respondent that he sold to-day 100 cars of
coal at Cleveland, getting for so cars
s. so ton, and for the other so cars 81 s.
a ton. The usual price for car of coal in
lots at Cleveland is 81 so ton.
President Ratchford of the miners or.
ganization spent the day in the city con-
ferring with the district officials. In the
afternoon he talked with the district ex-
ecutive board, and after the meeting said: 1:
"A week from to-day the mines in
West Virginia will be closed up as tight as
in the PIttsburg district. We will put
o-gsnizers to work among the noL-union
miners of that State. We are going to
stop the digging of coal there, and if we
cannot stop the digging We shall stop the
Shipment. How? By alliance with the
railroad men. We have been in eommuni-
cation with the trainmen. and l think
they will be found on our side If We need
them; but we don't want 20 call on them
until we have exhausted all means OF pre-
venting coal from being dug.
The district officers will make deter
mined effort tomorrow to bring out the
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Com
pany's miners. Arrangements have been
made for a march on these mines
on Sunday. Secretary Warner says
four brass bands have been engaged,
and With a mum ber of men a move will be
made en- The mines at Turtle and Sand
creeks. We are not afraid of the in juno
ton against Us, said he, las we will keep
on the public highways and will have a
field on which to hold a meeting"
The atest accessions TO the ranks OF the
strikers are the miners employed at
Smocks mines, on the Red Stone branch
of the Pennsylvania road. The coal from
these mines has been going to the Eastern
markets. Efforts will be made to bring
out all who are loading coal for the East.
The Panhandle mine OF Hanna & Co.
is said to have been shut down completely
to-day by the order of Manager Young.
A bout seveuty-tive men were at work in
the mine yesterday.
According to The mining officials. less
than 500 men, outside of the 1900 employed
b. the Dearmits in the New York and
Cleveland Company, enter the pits in this
district to-day.
District President Dolan, who is just
back from a two days tramp, says there
IS not a speck of Goa! being mined in the
Yough Valley. Thursday night at IL
O'clock he arrived at Port Royal. He had
learned that the men were to go to work
there through a misunderstanding of or
ders. When he explained ma tiers to them
they decided to remain out.
Coal is very scarce in the Pittsburg
market and il is i'm possible TO buy in car
load lots. A representative nf an oil-well
drilling firm made application to-day for
a carload, but was refused. The oil man
said if fuel could not be procured it would
cause suspension OF field work in This
section.
Operators are now making every effort
10 protect contracts tor future delivery.
Failure to deliver on these condition will
en- tail heavy 10 5, as thousands OF dollars
will be forfeited. prominent operator
said to-day that the local market will be
cleaned up well by the end of the week
and higher prices will result.
GREENVILLE, PA, July 10.-The
AmaIgamate ASSOCIATION scale was
signed to-day by the Kimberly mill and
work will be resumed in all departments
on MSndaV