The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-09-19

OF the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to-
day number 1888 While the number
of cars ordered By the mines ere 3
m The placement 81 ,2256 Is spleIls
aid and today,s loading should be
heavy. Today cars are classified as
follows: Open, 1877; coke, II. Cars
left over from the previous day We're
All this week q 100 per cent. car sup
ply and placement was experienced on
the Monongahela Railway. Today the
early morning placement was 2S4.
There are 225 cars in sight today for
Saturdays loading. There will be a
100 per cent. run tomorrow.
Railroad Fuel.
There were 2S1 cars Of railroad fuel
loaded on the B. & o. on Thursday. B.
& o. shipments increased to 11S loads,
Bangor & Arostock took big jump to
As cars and Cumberland Valley went
to II cars after having been running
low for several days. New York Cen
trail jumped to SO cars while New York,
New Haven & Hartford and P. & r.
dropped.
Coal Movement.
East of Grafton on Thursday the B.
& o. railroad drew 1872 loads, which is
quite a drop from the daily average
this week.
Fifty cars were diverted by the way
Of the F., NJ, & P, and Connellsyille
lines.
In the Region.
. Major G, H. Diffenderfer, Philadel-
phia, OF the Blair-Parke Coal and Coke
company, was the guest of S. D. Brady
today.
United Mine Workers.
]. L. Ballard, international organi-
ger, is on trip today to Elkins and
Maibe.
John W. Brown, international or
ganizer, today is on trip to Davis
mine on Helen's Run.
Ira L. Marks, district Board mem
Der, and Nick Aiell, district board
member, are on trip to Ocean mines,
near Clarksburg.
Screened to Slack.
The Estella Coal Company recently
organized has begun operations at
Philippi, w. Va.
A coal inquiry will be conducted in
Missouri by the attorney general Of
that state.
Southern Ohio coal fields are shy
$50 coal cars a day.
Country coal dealers in Missouri are
grabbing all kinds of fuel in sight.
Operators Of the Standard district
OF the Southern Illinois coal field at
a meeting in Bellevue have appealed
to Governor Lowden for protection Of
their property,
w. A. Laurel of Blueheld, has pur-
chased go ton day operation at
Butler, Pa.
improvements will he made to, the
water front at Ashtabula, o.
Consular officers say American coal
will take the prize on the Italian
markets as soon as Italy can be con-
WINGED that American coal is good.
Spain has too much coal. 1t pro-
duced 1904 1853 tons last year. In 1914
the mines of that country produced
4,424 439 tons.
Anthracite shipments in August
were 6,144,144 gross tons.
Last week the steamer W. A. Nc
Gonagle took a cargo Of 1851 tons
of coal at the B. & o. docks from
Toledo to Gary.
The Minnesota Legislature will in
vestigate the coal prices which a re-
port states have increased from so to
100 per cent and coke prices have
raised 800 per cent.
Pittsburgh operators are raising a
howl on car shortage.
Anthracite operators believe that
there will be an over supply rather
than shortage of coal next winter.
The New Mexico supreme court has
decided the case of the deported Gal
1up miners in favor Of the miners.
They we're banished after the refusal
to work under non-union conditions,
the successors to the company that
recognized the union, having been an
nulled.
Spanish miners have had their wag-