Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-25
RAILROADS AND COAL
Ten Carrying Roads in
Anthracite Field
DOMINATE SITUATION
FIX PRICE OF COAL AND QUAINT
ITY OF OUTPUT.
Have Settled There Own Differences
and Could Settle Strike
if They Desired.


IN the coal strike, through their connection
with the coal-carryinS business of the an
thracite region is one of the important and
Interesting phases of the present situation
in Pennsylvania, at asst SO far as the in
ffuences which might he welded toward a
settlement of the coal strike is concerned.
Through the United States geological sur
yey the government is in possession of this
informa ton. 1t was complied by II. H.
Stock 4 short time before the present trou-
ble'began.
According to this information, there are
ten great coal-carrying railroads engaged
in hauling anthracite. The percentage Of
the anthracite each of these roads should
carry is decided through agreements en-
tered into between them. These roads and
the amount of anthracite they haul, dur
Ing the year 1900 follow:
Who Carries the Coal.
The Philadelphia and Reading railroad
hauled 93:3S SIG tons of the coal of the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company.
The Iehigh Valley railroad came next In
amount with a tonnage of 6.909,4l2 of the
coal mined by the Lehigh Valley Coal
COMPANY.
The ID Iaware. Lackawanna and Weste. n
hauled it's own coal TO the extent of
C.Dl3.sI) tons.
The Central railroad of New Jersey
hauled the coal of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company TO the extent of 5,3O9,-
$50 tons
The Pennsylvania railroad comes fifth in
the list with a tonnage of 1.lf9,9it. the
coal hauled being from the mines or the
same company.
The Delaware and Hudson road hauled
the coal of its own mines to the extent of
3,g73. $50 tons
The Erie and Wyoming Valley railroad
hauled 2O9O Lob tons of the coal CT the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
The Erie railroad handled the output Of
the Hillside Coal and Iron Company 10 the
extent of / .741 069 tons.
The New York. Ontario and Western rail-
road hauled .G5s. 445 tons OF the coal of the
Scranton Coal Company and the New York
and Scranton Coal Company.
The New York. Susquehanna and West
, ern Railroad carried 1.63S.iJ tons OF COAL
owned by the Erie company
As will be seen by this statement. some
Ct the transportation companies carry only
t;e coal mined by their own companies,
while others carry not only their own, but
q 50 coal mined by individual operators
Division of the Profit.
What profit the railroads get out of this
immense traffic in anthracite. what the
miner gets out of it. and what factors en-
ter into the equation in making up the
Interesting story.
The first cost of anthracite naturally be-
gins al the mines. This cost can be given
but in general terms, as various authorities
differ on the subject. In the Individual OPP
orators Letter for April. 1899. Mr.. Elem
ming places this cost at 81 60 per ton. In
the same publication for November. 1898.
the cost Is stated by Mr.. John c. Eaddock
at $3.50, while the Coal and Metal Miners
Pocket Book gives the mean cost at a
number OF collieries in the Wyoming field
as S1.3J. and in the Lehigh region as Sl.5o
The next item which enters into the cost
of a ton of anthracite is the freight, and
while there are long and intricate rate Ia
bles, giving the cost to various shipping
points the average may well be summed up
by adding as freight an additional amount
equal to the original cost. The whole
salers' profit comes in next, and when this
is added the cost of a ton of Lykens Val
lev stove coal alongside the dealers wharf
I'm New York Is in normal times, 4.55. The
consumer gets this ton OF coal on his side
walk for 1878, which gives the retailer 500
out of the transaction. The expense the
4 retailer is put to in handling the coal Is es-
stimated at 20 cents, which must be deducted
from his profit of $3.50.
How the Roads Control.
That the railroads have for many years