The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-15
REPRESENTATIVE
Of M'ADOO IS
COMING HERE
Operators Believe Some Re
lief Will Follow Inves-
gator; s. Region.
JAMISQN MEN BUY BONDS
Operators Executive Com
nittee Holding Meeting
in City Today
JANIS0N MEN BUY BONDS

LIS 8GGSfQOOA the executive SOhQ-
mite Of the Central West Virginia
Coal Operators Association IS hold
lng session and some Of the more
important operators are meeting with
the members. The car supply, as usu-
n, Will be the matter talked OF.
The word was passed around this
morning that the Baltimore and Ohio
agreement with Vice President Geo.
T. Watson and officers OF the Cousoli-
Gation to keep :nis region adequately
supplied with cars and take 500 loads
east eack day would go into effect
Today. It was TO have gone into effect
Immediately after Il was made. but
Judging by the car supply statistics
the cars which ought to have come
here went to the mines along the rir-
er in Ohio.
As an Offset to the report that the b
& o. means to be good for a while IS
che notice that 200 cars are all that
san be handled through the Shippens-
burG gateway.
There are 1.e65 cars in the region
today but at, sore mines +hey were
not placed until after the men mad
left fo- the day to work on the farms
There was one bright spot on the
horizon, however. That consisted OF
4 telegram to President {: 3. jenkins
Of the Operators Association from
Carl Gray. former president OF the
Western Maryland railway now an
assistant to Director General McAdoo
to the effect that a special represen-
tatfve OF the railway administration
will be in the region, maybe tomorrow
TO look the situation over. The opera
tors have been begging that this very
thing be done for the past month and
they feel that as soon as the man who
comes realizes how bad the situation
Is something will be done.
From all over the region come re-
ports that the miners have at last
given up hope of there ever being an
Improvem ent in the car situation and
are leaving the mines. Saturday was
pay day and this morning the reports
Of losses are especially numerous
Coal Notes.
Dau Z. Lawson. Fairmont district
represent alive OF tbs Fuel adnin:stra-
t!oa, got back from Washington this
morning
clyde 1:urn:e! Of the Fuel admin
Istr2tioE'S office in this city is at his
home in Grafton taking gooG care o!
q case OF grip.
0, Tom .4rnctt has returned from
business trip to eastern points.
The GiIuer & PittsbUrg Goa! Com
0aoy. witici: its main Office at IVES toG
Ind its mine in elmer coT3tr. shipped
IS first LOAF OF coal last week through
Mex Watson OF Fairmont. The niue
expects To be loading five cars a
lay ere long. A bridge costing 5000
vas erected across the Little Kama
Nra river n order TO 5narke: The coal:
The Tirginian railway will be eXs
Hy9 FaCnftE
.oraty through YES: Virginia ard
ohio to the Great Lakes !. p .57---57irr
u Director General Mc.EG0o 90 BE-
,ecur&d. The TTirSi.;an rail7:a- = pax
iouS to reach & 1900 acre .2ct -:
coal and timber in RG'eigh ,5orr:y.
janaison k:frers 7at:;eti:-
Jamison No. miners got into tie
houd brying ga:ae Saturday and be
Eore they stopped they bad subscrib-
cd for $500 wo-:h CT them. The
uen at this mine have been goo5 buy
arg OF the War Savings stamps also.
No specia! effort has yet been made to
interes: any OF the JaTnisor zen in
the bonds Issue but some bonds have
been taken at all Of the mines
SononqateIa Mines Td:e Welt
The car sSpa!y on the Mocca Eabsla
>aiIroad. the line from Brownsville.
Pa. TO F2i:uont. which s. jointly
1T.ed by the New YORK Central and
he Pennsylvania has been ninety per
cent for the las: few weeks. which IS
astonishing as compared TO the car
supply on the MononSah division o.
the Baltimore and Ohio. About fifty
per cent OF the coal shipped out OF
the FaiTnont district mines on the
Monongahela recently has been rail-
road fuel and the rest comnercIai coaI.