Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-11-20
MINES AND RAILROADS.
ITEMS WHICH WILL INTEREST THIS
ARMY OF WORKERS.
Silver Passes Issued by the Pennsylvania
CompaDy-President Walters Views on
Prosperity-Coal Production and Other
Mining Matters.

| mining matters.
President Walters, of the Lehigh
Valley Company, speaking in a general
way in regard to the business situation
and the prospects for its continuance,
said that he thought prosperity would
last one year If not longer and that his
company was doing very well, although
it was making heavy outlays in regard
to renewals of tracks, putting down
new sidings and reclassifying the
various freight yards.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has issued passes on silver plate,
about the size Of the card annual form,
to Mrs. j. Edgar Thomson, Mrs. Thomas
A. Scott, Mrs. George B. Roberts, wives
of the ex-preSidents of that company,
and to Miss Anne Thompson, daughter
of the late Frank Thompson. These
passes bear their respective names, and
read good during her life."
The death of John C. Jones, aged Sc
years, superintendent of the Warrior
Run Mining Company, one of the best
known mining men in the Wyoming
valley, occurred Friday evening at
Warrior Run. Death was due to par
alysis. For the past nineteen years Mr..
Jones had charge of the Warrior Run
mines.
William Cunningham, of Freeland,
has resigned his position as d. s. & S.
station agent at Sheppton, to accept the
position of extra operator on the main
line of the Lehigh Valley. He will be
stationed in Bethlehem. John Gallagher
succeeds him as station agent in Shepp-
ton.
The Wifkesbarre and Wyoming Val
ley Traction Company has completed
arrangements with the Scranton Trac-
tion Company by which their cars will
be run direct from Wilkesbarre to
Scranton. The connection is expected
to be completed by Christmas.
The nine trolley companies centering
in Allentown and owned by Thomas L.
and Albert l.. Johnson, have been merg-
ed into one corporation, known as the
Lehigh Valley Traction Company. The
capital stock of the consolidated com
pany is to be 1000, 900.
Superintendent Mcclure, of the New
York division of the Erie, has issued an
order that no engineer or fireman on
that division shall be called within eight
hours after he has made a trip, and
must not be allowed to make over thirty
five days month.
The production of anthracite coal for
the month of October is officially re-
ported at 1900, 900 tons, against 4, $50, 900
In 1898. This brings the total for the
year up to about 3S, 10000 tons against
$685. 900 tons in the corresponding pc
riod last year,
Mrs Warren Merkel, of Shamokin,
has accepted $6,56s from the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company in settlement
for the death of her husband in the
West Dunellen, N. j., wreck, last
January.
Up to October 81 the d. S. & S. Com
pany transported / ,392, ,4S2 tons of coal,
or 3.62 per cent of the total OUTPUT
for the ten months of 1899. This is one
and two-tenths per cent over it's allot-
ment.
On Saturday the wages of freight
lrcmen on the d. & II. were increased
from to "a cents Il mile and the wages
of passenger trainmen from 12l to TX
cents a mile.
corps of surveyors is at work on
the line of the proposed Delaware Val
ley and Kingston Railroad, to be built
on the abandoned Delaware and Hud-
son canal.
Lehigh Valley engine 76o, which was
one of the big moguls purchased from
the u. S. & S. Company few years ago,
was demolished in a wreck near Coxton
last week
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
has borrowed another engine, No. "a,
from the ID. S. & S. 1t will be used on
the Hazleton division.
G. B. Markle & Co. now employ over
1000 men and boys, the highest number
since the firm began operations.
There is no change in the miners big
strike at NanticOke