The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-06-07
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cars on the division. This is the same
number as yesterday. All of yester-
days loading was omved.
Personal Mention.
n. B. Clark, of the Harry B. Coal
comapny, is in Philadelphia.
John W. Wavidson, who had been
connected with the office of the
Northern West Virginia Coal Opera
tors association, btu now travelling
salesman for a Pittsburgh notion
house, was in Fairmont yesterday.
Daily Car Supply.
Empties on the division today were
2,258. Cars left over from the previ-
Gus day were 707. Today's cars are
classified as follows: Coal, 2.093; sur
plus n. e. C. x, rs; surplus M. v. T.,
14O. The placement at o'clock this
morning was 1,016.
Railroad Fuel.
Railroad fuel loading on the Mo-
nongah division yesterday totaled ESQ
loads. This is about the general run
of daily railroad fuel loading on the
division.
United Mine Workers.
H. E. Peters, district organizer, and
Sanford Snyder, international organ
izer, are in Elkins today.
John Custalac. district organizer, is
at Laura Lee today.
Joe Angelic, international organ
izer, is at Hepzibah today.
]. W. Brown, international organ
izer, spoke at Mossey, Fayette county,
on Thursday night. Mr.. Brown is
still in the Kanawha fields.
C, F. Keeney, Charleston, president
of District No. IL, United Mine Work
ers, has charge of the desk in the
Fairmont office of the United Mine
Workers today.
On Sunday afternoon at / o'clock
United Mine Workers will hold meet
ings at Red Rock, near Weston, and
Lorentz,
Small Coal Sale.
A tract of 3S acres of coal has been
purchased by the Cambria Coal COM
pany from the Lumberport Coal COM
pany. The tract is located near Lum-
berport and the approximate price
paid was $4,000.
Want New Cars.
Effort is being made by the coal
operators of Southern West Virginia
and Eastern Kentucky to press into
service 10000 new coal cars which
were constructed under government
orders last year. They have been
standing idle on side tracks since last
year. They cost the government
$4,000 each. A number of cars were
accepted by the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad, but other roads turned the
offer down.
Lake situation.
Coal shipments at the lakes were
heavy last week, according to the in
formation received from Cleveland.
This was true despite the fact thtb
Friday of last week was a holiday.
During the week the feet took $685.
92S tons of cargo and 39,137 tons of
! fuel. Coal is arriving at the lakes
freely and the railroads on Wednes-
day had 1876 cars at the lake front
and 1858 cars in transit.
The docks dumped 1859 cars on
Tuesday and 1t was estimated $500
cars on Wednesday. The Erie dock
at Cleveland started to load coal on
Wednesday.
University Short Course.
Judging by the number Of miners
who have already enrolled for the
Short Course in Coal Mining to be
held at West Virginia University. at
Morgantown, from June 16 to July
26, the attendance will break all rec
ords.
In order to enable the registration
cards to be filed out accurately and
avoid a waiting line 1t has been de-
cided to urge men to register in per
son at Room 121, Mechanical Han, on
Saturday, June IA. This will hermit
the school work to begin promptly on
Monday morning, although the regis
tration officers will be on duty early
Monday morning to accommodate the
late arrivals.
There are no charges for instruc-
ton or books. Board and room can
be obtained for about $500 a week.
and arrangements will be made in
advancefor those who request 1t. In
coming students will be met at TT
train II r. 2. Virgin is notified.
It is expected that at le2at fifty
students will be on hand at the START
of the Short Course, and arrange
ments have been made to take care
of double this number n necessary.
Full Information about the Short
Course can be had by writing to r. z.
Virgin, assistant Director, Mining En-