The age-herald., 1899-08-01
COAL ADVANCES
 TO HIGH FIGURES Extraordinary Demand Being
 Made on Dealers. THREE OR FOUR DOLLARS Miners for Colorado Desired = Every body Seems to be Satisfied With Ishkooda Affairs-Rumors of
 Trouble at Galloway
THREE OR FOUR DOLLARS

l The people of Birmingham will be com- 1 pelled this fall and winter to pay about
 one dollar per ton more for coal than they | did during the past winter. At least, this 1 seems to be the opinion in the offices of l the various coal mining companies around | the city.
 Since last summer the price of mining coal has in most of the mines of tho dis trict been increased about 40 per cent, though iu some cases not so much. All of this increase goes to the miners. Expenses of getting the coal to market have been in- creased in other respects, until 1t may be safely said that it costs 50 per cent more to | put coal on the market this summer than | 1t did last.
 Then again, there are several more fur | naces in blast this summer than there were last, each of which consumes about | 300 tons of coal a day. Although several new mines are being opened up to supply | this increased demand, it always takes d | new mine number of months to get in working condition and get out anything | like large output. On this account one or two of the large furnace companies have already found it necessary to disap- l point number of parties whom they have | heretofore been supplying with coal | This Is the season of the year when most l of the big concerns, such as the railroads | foundries and other industries make their | coal contracts for the coming year. They | are all being made at an increase of at | least 25 per cea
 All of these indications, together with a dearth of labor with which the district has been troubled for some months, point to some serious conditions in the domestic coal market this winter. Even last winter when conditions were much more favorable than they are now, it will be remembered that there was a coal famine which caused no little inconvenience and also caused an increase in the prices.
 It is said that the retail dealers in Br- mingham count on selling coal for dollar | ton more than it cost them, and then l very few of them them make money. In | most of the southern cities the retail men 1 sell for two and three dollars more than
 it cost them. The great objection to this l business Is that the business lasts only six
 or seven months of the year. It is better In
 Birmingham than most places, because so
 much more coal is used in this city for l With all of these facts taken into con-
 sideraton, 1t would not be surprising if
 domestic coal did not sell for s3 or s4, or l even more, during the winter months. | Exporting Miners There Is labor agent In Birmingham | getting up a party of one hundred coal | miners which he wants to go to Pueblo, | Col, leaving this city tomorrow night. He | says he wants any kind of miner, white or l black, union or non-union. All of the rail- | roads have refused to make him any rate | for the party less than the regular tariff | rates. and consequently it has not yet been | decided over what route they will leave the l city.
 | At Ishkooda
 Officers of the Robinson Mining company
 operating the ore mines at Ishkooda | say that they are now getting out seventy | five or eighty tons a day-their full capac-
 ity being one hundred-and they are satis-
 fled with the progress being made toward
 breaking the strike.
 Editor O'Keefe, of the Arbitrator, the Of.
 ficial organ of the Knights of Labor. main-
 tains on the other hand that the union is
 thoroughly satisfied with the condition of
 affairs at Ishkooda, and that the strikers | are holding out we'll They are being cared
 for by knights in other parts of the state.
 and are persuading the new corners not to
 stay. MT. O'Keefe stated that a number
 of these men were being sent regularly to | Galloway and other mines in the district
 where there was a good demand for labor.
 At Galloway
 It was rumored on the streets yesterday | afternoon that all of the trouble among
 the miners at Galloway was not yet over.
 and that there was talk of the Knights of
 Labor going out to join the United Mine
 Workers. Nothing of a definite nature
 could be learned from those miners last
 night.
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