The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-01-30

His Part Of Fuel Admins
tration Work Come to
End Today.

EIlu 1Oudys
After tomorrow the inspection de,
partment OF the district representa-
tive's office OF the United States Fuel
administration ceases to function. This
has been rather an important division
because It was responsible for cleaner
coal being shipped out OF the region.
Most OF the bigger operations have al.
ways furnished clean coal, but some OF
the mushroom" business which
sprung up during the war was not 50
much inclined that way.
This department went into effect on
May and was busy ever since that
time. Charles F. Ice, OF the Consoll-
dalton Coal company, was the chief
inspector, and he has been on the job
seeing that a clean product is pro,
duced. Mr.. Ice will lreturn to his for
mer position as general inspector OF
all divisions Of the installation Coal
company, commencing Saturday. The
five inspectors in the division are q,
F. Poster, Morgantown; G. w. Fer,
guson, Buckhannon; F.. F. Robey
Shinnston; Edmund Hugill; Clarksbure
and A. G. Ice, Morgantown.
Mr.. Ices division consisted Of the
376 tipple and 800 wagon mines in the
region. the latter having been inactive
after the signing Of the armistice.
Mr.. Posten has secured position
in the Morgantown region and Mr.. Ro
hey will return to the Consolidation
Coal company at mines at Shinnston
as soon as the work Is completed to-
morrow. The other inspectors will
also be placed withina short time.
Soon to Close.
Affairs Of the Office OF the district
representative Of the United States
Fuel administration will be wound up
on Saturday. The department ceases
to function on Saturday, but the re,
port Of the mines for Saturday will be
collected because 1t Is necessary to
tabulate the reports by weeks.
Today r. B. Isner, district represen.
tatiye. is issuing q letter to the oper,
ators stating that commencing on
Monday and thereafter similar reports
should be sent to =. ]. Patton, secre'
tary OF the West Virginia Coal Opera
tors association, who is DESTROYS Of
keeping up the collection Of the rec
oris.
In order to tabulate all Of the re-
ports 1t will be necessary to keep the
office force ON until about February
is and perhaps one or two Of the force
until March 1, by which time all OF the
reports will be completed and ready to
be sent to Washington, d. O.
Some "spot" sales.
While most Of the coal leaving the
Fairmont region at this time is on con
tract 1t is encouraging to note that
number Of spot" sales have been
made during the past few days at the
government price. The sales are Q
few carloads at q time but the trend
Is to cling to the government price.
Hines Conference.
Today is the time set for the sub
committee of the National Coal asso
citation to hold a conference with
Walker d. Hines, director general oil
railroads at Washington, D. c., in re
kard to railroad fuel. According to re
ports receive dhere Mr.. Hines was III
! in Washington yesterday and It might
be that the conference may not be
held today.
Mr.. Isner Returns.
r. B. Isner, district representative
OF the United States Fuel administra
ton, arrived home last evening from
Pittsburgh after having been onsa sew
eral days business trip to New York
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Pitts
burgh.
Last Saturday night in New York
city Mr.. 1sner attended the dinner OF
1.-THE Pennsylvania society at which
Governor Sproul was the guest Of hon
or. AT the table where Mr.. Isner was
seated there were two members Of the
special fuel commission which was
sent to France to investigate condt
ltlons Of the French mines, which have
been practically all demolished by the
Germans.
More Reports Are In.
The morning mail today brought
more reports to the trade bureau o.
the Northern West Virginia Coal Oper
iSators' association. These reports viii
be tabulated today and report will be
ready on them by tomorrow. Some Of
1.-THE blanks have not yet been mailed
out 80 1t may require few days be
fore all Of the reports are received.
Blue Book Sketch.
In the recent edition Of Harris
Blue Book Of the state Of West Wiz
gtnia q sketch Of the state fuel admin
istration activities are reviewed al
some length. An excellent likeness Of
]. Waiter Barnes, state fuel admins
TRAITOR, is included IN the form Of q cut
Today's Cars.
There are $3.50 cars in the region
! today. They are classified as follows:
Coal, 3,0Ss; coke, 80; wagon, /. The
placement at 2 o'clock this morning
was 1869.
Yesterdays Loading.
The loading yesterday totalled 81
cars, which included 16 unconsignet
cars. Eastward the traffic totalled
514 cars while westward It was 81, oi
which 546 was coal and two were coke
Today's Work.
There are 158 mines down today or
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