The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-08-19
SAYS THE STORIES
ARE GROUNDLESS
President Nichols Makes Denial of
the Reports Sent Out Of Confer
ences-Warnke to Resume.

District President II. D. Nichols
stated yesterday to a Tribune man,
that the reports sent out from Wilkes
Barre regarding an unexpected con-
ference this week between j. Pierpont
Morgan and President John Mitchell,
were utterly groundless. Said he: II
take absolutely no stock in those re-,
ports. Mr.. Mitchell is at present in
indianapolis, and whether or not he
will be back here Thursday, cannot
say. However, I was in conference
with him Friday night, and it is reason
able to suppose that if there was any
truth in these rumors, Mr.. Mitchell
would have given me some information
on the matter then. There was not,
however, the least suggestion of any
such action TO be taken.
"There is also no truth in the state
ments which have been printed in
some of the New York and Philadelphia
papers Of a conference between the
operators and officials Of the mine
workers. Reports at present from all
over the district indicate an encourag-
ing condition of affairs. Men are quit
ting work every day at the few col
lieries in operation. Several have left
during the last few days"
Executive Board Members Stephen
Reap. of Olyphant, and Henry Collins,
of CarbOndale, We're closeted with Presi-
dent Nichols yesterday afternoon Col
Inns reported that number of men,
who had been engaged at the Coal
brook colliery and CarbOndale washery
of the Delaware & Hudson company
!, iV,erc
will be held today, one at Moosc and
one at Miners Mills. A special meet
ing of the five Olyphant locals will be
held at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon at
Father Matthew hall, Olyphant.
Superintendent John r. Dryden of the
New York, Ontario & Western Railroad
companys coal department yesterday
informed a Tribune man that expecta-
tiOns are entertained of having the new
Capouse washery built and in operation
within sixty days. All the lumber, need
ed in it's construction will be here within
two weeks. and the necessary machinery
is expected inside of a month. Kings
ley and Westcott, who have built the
greater number of local washeries,
Superintedent Dryden.
tIeOeIlCh wartime ldSl StulGu
to a Tribune man that investigation
had shown that the machinery at his
Duryea washery was not as much in
need of repairs. as at first believed,
and efforts would be made to resume
work Wednesday or Thursday.
The Black Diamond says: Mine
collieries are now reported preparing
coal for market, while some twenty-five
washeries are turning out considerable
product of the small sizes. OF course,
only a small percentage Of the product
of the mines and washerirs have as
yet been available for the trade, as the
requirement of the mining plants and
railroads transporting same are con-
siderable, and which are supplying
their own needs first. The first wash
cry to commence in the Schuylkill field
is the Anchor, of the Philadelphia and
Reading. The Lehigh Coal and Navi-
cation company continues to run coal
through breakers Nos. and - and Is
shipping coal to market.
THE Mt. Lookout collery, at Wyo-
ming, started up during the week in
small way, and mules are being taken
back to mine No. I of the Pennsylvania
Coal company and the Kingston Coal
company's colliery, and it is thought
work will be resumed there in few
days. The collieries now operating
throughout the region are the Dickson
of the Delaware and Hudson, at Scran-
ton; the Hutchins, of the Hutchins
Coal company, the Dusky Diamond, of
Reese & Davis, at Beaver Brook; the
Oxford. of the Peoples Coal company,
at Scranton; the Cayuga. OF the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western. No.
Z, of the Susquehanna Coal company,
Mt. Lookout. of the Temple Coal and
Iron company, and the Dodge, of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
at Scranton.
THE washeries running are produce
ing about $4,000 tons a day, and this is
likely to increase more rapidly now
with the product Of the mines as the
disintegration of the strike goes on.
The opinion that as the relief fund Is
proving entirely inadequate to the
needs of the men, the strike cannot
continue much longer, and two weeks,
at the outside one month, will see most
of the men back at work again."