The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-02
HAS
AGAIN MT REGION.
EB9IN,ALE ANGLES
B. & o. all Monongahela
Lines Are Both seri-
Ously 4 Ffected.

Ne Isteater portid of last month q
ortage appears 70 have hit the Mo-
f4d yah division of the Baltimore and
o. railroad as well as the Monon-
| gaht Railway. On the B. Z o. rail-
road aay the total cars have been
reduced 1926 while the placement
dropped 300. Twenty eight mines
are down beca8ise of car shortage.
There is bUt a ty, per cent car sup
ply on the MonoNs hallway to-
day with only prospetG !
cent. supply on Friday. White tie car
shortage will naturally cut down pro-
duction 1t perhaps is the best thing
for the region in some ways especially
as to market conditions which will
have chance to improve somewhat.
Export coal has been the salvation OF
the Fairmont region because as high
as a third of the coal went to piers
daily and in some instances even q
larger percentage. With Curtis Bay
shipments tied up tight the region is
handicapped. At times some lake Goa.
has been sent, but with prospects Of
sympathy strike and labor troubles
generally along the lake front no bright
hopes are held out in that direction.
Mines along the 3. & o. today Or
dered ,410 cars, The cars on the d.
vision today are classified as follows:
Open, S21; coke, 5. Cars left over
from the previous day number 1S4.
Along the Monongahela Railway to-
dav there IA an early morning place.
ment of 22S. There are 200 cars in
sight today for Fridays loading No
mines are.idle because OF car shortage,
but the mines naturally could use more
cars than were furnished today.
Wednesdays Production. z
Production on Wednesday was
: slaughtered naturally because of car
shortage and the total loading of Goa.
and coke on the B. e o. railroad drop
ped to 1919 cars. OF this five cars
we're coke.
Mines along the Monongahela Rail-
way on Wednesday loaded S26 cars,
which appears to have been the heavi-
est loading experienced in the West
Virginia district of the road for per-
iod of many months. This was due to
the fact that not only was 100 per
0 cent. car supply on yesterday, but the
placement at 31S was most ideal.
Regional production yesterday was
1,l37 cars of coal and coke, ,1S2 cars
Of coal and five cars of coke.
Coal loaded east on the B. & o. yes
terday was 729 cars while that loaded
: west was so cars. The five cars OF
8 coke went west.
q Wednesdays Shipments.
Nothing was unusual about We'd
u nesday's shipments except that they
6 were especially low to various points
g because of the car shortage. They
a were as follows: Curtis Bay, 80 cars;
st. Georges, IS cars; Lakes, Is cars;
Michigan points, 10 cars; Ohio points,
!. 81! miscellaneous points, "a cars.
9 Today there are nine unconsigned
cars on the division. Eleven of the
. twenty on the division Wednesday
s. morning have been moved and the
IS nine cars will no doubt soon disappear
n Railroad Fuel.
Railroad fuel loaded on the B. & o.
;. yesterday totaled 1893 cars. P, & R.
= shipments went up to 55 cars yester-
U day, the heaviest since Monday. 9th
9 er railroad shipments were slanted
: downward
nj Freight Movement.
q Movement of freight east Of Graf
: ton in September totaled 31,265 loads
g according to B. & o. railroad figures
This is an average of 1,042 loads daily
9 This includes coal and coke and all
h kinds of freight.
The daily average Of eastern coal
g loads via Grafton on twenty-five day
s basis from the mines was 919 loads
: The mines of the Monongah division
y loaded 22,9S4 cars eastward during
h September. Comparatively few east
n ern m loads were diverted by cSnnells-
y vile last month.
5 In September, 1918, the B. & o.
]. moved total Of 19,1O1 coal loads east
of Grafton. This is an average of but
764 carloads a day, computing 1t on a
twenty-five working day basis as was
the case in September, 1913, also.
This means that the B. & o. last
month averaged 1856 more car loads
east than over September, 1918. Coal
: operators are frank in many cases Of
n handing it to the B. & o, in rendering
greater efficiency last month than q
: year ago. That the railroad company
o has more locomotive power now than
d a year ago is an established fast. Last
o year, however, the railroad was some-
: what handicapped by troop movement
= and general war rush orders.
Wednesdays Movement
j, The B. & o. railroad drew $50 loads
: east of Grafton on Wednesday. This
is drop, which is largely due to the
Y lack Of eastern loads due to car short
k age. There were no diversions over
Q the F., M. & P. and ConnellsYille lines
d United Mine Workers.
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