The evening times., 1899-07-21
ACTIVITY IN COAL MINING
Gratifying Reports From Georges
Creek Region.
A Marked Increase I'm This YEARS.
Output-A Statement From Inspec-
tor Rankin-The Situation Entirely
satisfactory to Everybody Com
cerned-shipments of the Week.

Cumberland, Nd, July 21.-The coal
shipments continue active from the local
region, the output last week being S9,-
721.04 tons, an increase tof 1216O.01 tons
in comparison with the record of the same
week of 1898. For the year to July 15, in
elusive, 2.305, 1911 ionsihave been ship
| ped, an increase of 121 y912s92 as compared
with the corresponding period of 1898. The
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal has transported
| 77.337.01 tons, or 19,6730s' tons less than
| last year.
| OF the output to July 10, 1,561 .6S1.09 tons
were delivered to the Baltimore and Ohio
| Railroad and local points, an increase OF
/ So, ,9O193 tons, and 666, 73ao1 tons to the
Pennsylvania, an increase 6f S7,6S4.S7 tons
l,compared with last year. :,
| During the week q, 1861 tons of coal
and 6.134.01 tons of coke were shipped from
the Elk Garden and Upper Potomac region
of West Virginia. The total output of the
| region to July Is Is 724, ,S2402 tons of Goa
4. and 129, ,141.17 tons of coke, an increase oi
! 1876. .174.09 tons of coal and decrease OF
| 4.535 tons Of coke as compared with the
| 1888 record, same period.
The large quantity of coal being used
| by the railroads. nearly every engine or
every line being busy, is in great meas
ure responsible for the unusual activity II
| mining. The seaboard soft coal trade con-
| tiIues most active. 1t is reported that
there is a great demand for vessels from
/ the lower Chesapeake Bay ports. Trans
! portation from mines to tide is very good
| State Mining Inspector Alexander Ran
kin says: Mining affairs in the Georges
| Greek region are proceeding with rush
| hot tn ha n
cerned-the operators, miners, and public
at large. Regarding the perpetuity of pro-
duction in this region, would say there Is
no reason for alarm and will not be for
| some time to come. There have been two
| openings made in the 6-foot seam which
give good promise. The Cannon Coal Com
| pany has made one at Franklin from which
it is now ready to ship coal. The other,
| located at Moscow, is not ready TO ship,
but work to that end in progressing right
along under the supervision aof the Pied
mont Coal Company"
| Speaking of improvements in the region
Mr. Rankin said: THE Barton Mining
| Company, Peter Sinclair. superintendent
is laying a foundation for an electric
power plant at its low-yein opening, near
Barton, and will be ready soon to increase
the output therefrom. This company in
! tends to put in mining machine. The
/ COdl SO1llpduyr Is idyluS
: inclined plane from its tramroad to the
/ small vein which it will soon have under
| operation.
| Both the Cumberland and Pennsylvania
| Railroad and the Georges Creek and Cum
! berland Railroad are euuipiDg their lines
with all modern appliances, such as the
post substantial stone and steel bridges
| heavy steel rails, steel cars, larger locomo-
tives, bringing them up alongside the high
est standard of roads in this country. They
| are fully capable now of handling the
enormous tonnages of coal and other
freight offered. These preparations tend
! to show that there will be long continu-
ance Of coal mining in this region. The
| Consolidation Coal Company is loading
coal for Dewey's fleet at Manila, hence all
| its mines are actively at work and all 9th
er companies are more or less busy filling
their contracts and such transient busi-
ness as is Offering"
| Mr.. Rankin is a practical miner and his
appointment as inspector of mines was
made not from a political standpoint but
/ on the ground Of capability. as the miners
had been complaining about politicians
who possessed little knowledge of mining
/ having been at times heretofore put in the
| position. He wears his miners clothes
when on duty and gives assiduous atten-
! tion to his work.