The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-11-14
CAR SUPPLY HAS
AGAIN S[UMPED
At COAL MINES
Only About Forty Per Cent
Today and 1t Was Bad
Yesterday.

Owing to congestion Of loaded coal
cars which resulted from the good
car supply recently there was fall.
ing of in the car supply this week,
which is discouraging to those who
hoped that the shortage of cars in the
tairmont-C larksburg region had been
solved. Today the car supply is esti-
mated at only forty per cent. of what
1t should be and yesterday was an of
day instead Of the big supply which
recent Tuesdays have recorded.
d. r. Lawson, secretary of the Cen
tIal West Virginia Coal Operators AS
sociation, returned this morning from
o business trip to Baltimore and Wash
ington.
A coal deal of considerable magni-
tude was disclosed by the filing Of a
deed for record Tuesday in the office
Of the county clerk Of Harrison coun-
ty. 1t transfers from the Pitcairn Coal
company to the Fairmont Big Vein
Coal company tract aggregating 475,-
564 acres of coal along the West Fork
river and certain Of its tributaries near
:ilarksburg for consideration of $780,
$50, or approximately $500 an acre.
Coal vitality Important.
The employment relationship de-
partment of the Consolidation Coal
company was established about year
ego and the work being done is certain
to exert wide influence in the long
run il ii is not already in evidence.
This department is in line with the &C.
ton Of leading industries throughout
the country which have come to realize
taat esprit de corps is an important
factor in the operation OF a big con.
Germ, as essential in fact as team work
in baseball team or military preci.
sion in the waging of war.
The employment relationship de-
rartment of the Consolidation is issu-
ing folders every now and then which
direct the attention Of the miners and
mine laborers to the urgent need OF
coal and the responsibility which lies
upon their shoulders to provide as
much fuel as possible at a time when
the future Of the world depends more
largely on coal than upon any other
single factor.
West Virginia people, and especially
those residing in the Fairmont. Clarks.
burg coal region, have grown so used
to coal; so accustomed to its exist
ence in this region in great quantities,
that 1t has become ordinary. Folks
vino handle the coal and those whose
prosperity depend to great extent on
its production, little realize how i'm.
portant 1t is in the world at this time
and how essential 1t is in the operation
Of affairs in time OF peace.
The employment relationship depart.
ment of the Consolidation makes the
POINT that there would be no war with.
cut coal to manufacture the munitions,
no railroads, ships, traction systems
nor any means Of transportation out.
side of the horse were 1t not for coal
and wagons would have to be wooden.
trimmed and harness fixed together by
thongs were it not for coal to prepare
the metal now used. There could be
no steel mills without coal for fuel for
coal Is the basis industry of them all.
as illustrated on the front page of the
latest folder issued by statue of Eff.
cheney and Loyalty, which stands on a
pedestal Industries, supported by an.
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