The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-24
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CHARLESTON, Feb. y During
year 1901 tie Ranawh4 and Hooking
Coal and Coke Company, the eorpo-
rate name Of which Is nox tie Sum
day Greek Coal Company was or
ganlged BY the oficers and stock
holders otthe K. and NJ. Rys y. and
%. 6. Ry. and Hooking Valley Ry4 and
financed and aoated by the lansing
house Of j. P. Morgan & Company, or
some Of bis people, the bonds being
guaranteed BY the Hocking Valley
railroad.
This coal company purchased most
OF the important coal mines on the
Kanawha and Michigan railway in
West Virginia, and the railroad re:
fused for a period of about three years
to allow any new company. or owner
Of coal land On It's line to. develop any
property Or ship any coal, stating
through It's attorneys in open court
and through its Officers at different
times, that It did not intend to allow
any new coal mines opened on Its line.
To curtall the shipment Of rail coal
in competition with them, It went SO
far as to tear up the tracks at ply-
mouth Mine, W. Va, eighteen miles
below Charleston, and at the Lines Of
the Black Diamond Coal Company,
about twelve miles above Charleston.
SO that these companies could not ship
coal BY rail at all and has, up TO The
present time, refused 70 put the tracks
in again.
The Kelley's Greek colllery Com.
pany, developing a plant rtout
eighteen miles above Charleston and
the Hughes Creek Coal company, de
velopfng plant aboht twenty one
miles above Charleston. are refused
any kind Of side tracls Of facilities
for shipping coal until after lengthy
litigation, AID then after those com.
panies had been put to extraordinary
expense by being required TO purchase
a number Of standard guage railroad
cars. The Burning Springs Coal com
pany was treated in like manner, and
Johnson Bros, of Columbus, Ohio,
were treated likewise, having been re-
fused side tracks at their new mine
for something over a year after they
we're ready to ship coal, and lid not
get the track until at the end Il pro.
tracted and expensive litigation.
The NJ. A, Hanna Coal company Of
Boomer, W. Va, on the Kanawha AMI
Michigan railway, found it necessary
to purchase five hundred $500 cars
Of its own before 1t could do business
with any satisfaction.
One large Independent cool CONCERN
on the Kanasha and Michigan railway
offered to furnish that company It's
fuel coal for less than seventy.aye
(75) cents ton, when 1t was al the
same times paying the Kanawha AMI
Hooking one dollar and five cents
($1O5l per ton, but the officers Of the
road refused TO purchase Its fuel coal
from any company except its own
Kanawha and Hooking company, the
same gentleman at the time president
Of the Kanawha and Michigan railway
and of the Kanawha anil Hooking
Coal company, the same gentleman
purchasing agent and the same audi.
tor. All Of which shows concluslvely
that the coal company is absolutely
controlled and owned by the railroad
and is being operated with an open in.
tcntion and alowal Of crushing ont
the Independent operators.
All of these and similar other facts
can be ascertained by sulumontns The
following Witnesses:
Thomas Johnson, Of johnson Bros,
Columbus, Ohio; j. B. Lewis, Mont.
gomery W, Va; s. H. Montgomery,
Montgomery, W. Va; V. S llIlck, Co,
Iuinbus, Ohio, sos Factory street; j..
w. Moore, Roe, w. Va. Arthur Robin.
son coalburg W. Va, u. j, Hickey
Transportation Co., covington Va;
George W. Bright, Columbus, Ohio;
>, S. Stone, Columbus, Ohio; Charles
Willis Ward, Queens, Long island, N.
VI J. w. Dawson, Charleston, w, Va;
FIN. staunton, Charleston. W. Va.