The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-04-21
MINING INDUSTRY
WILL Do IT'S SHARE
FOR VICTORY LOAN
Operators Representatives
Meeting Today to Make
Plans.
MEN WILL HELP ALSO
Summary of the Statistics
for Last Weeks
Work.
men WILL HELP ALSO.

Coal companies in the Fairmont re-
! gion are anxious to see the Victory
Loan go "over the top" and this morn
! ing meeting OF the representatives
OF the various mining interests was be.
/ ing held for the purpose of planning
[ to assist their government in this
drive. arrangements having been made
! at the session held at the office OF
John A. Clark in the Home Savings
Bank building.
| The coal companies as corporations
and the United Mine Workers have
stood back of every loan thus far. De
spite the fact that the working time
! has been somewhat limited in the re.
! gion recently 1t is expected that tho
men will generously respond and the
companies themselves will contribute
/ handsomely.
The Consolidation Coal company
was the first local operation to start
the ball rolling, the main office in
| Baltimore announcing that the con,
! Germ had subscribed to 100000 worth
of Liberty bonds.
Railroad Fuel.
Railroad fuel tonnage last week
loaded on the Monongah division OF
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to.
! tailed 1,17G cars. This is seven cars
short OF the total for the preceding
week, which was / .18S cars. hut 15d
! cars more than two weeks ago when
!. the total was l,02@
Last week the .consiSnments tetaled
as follows: B. & o., 525 cars; G. OF
j.. ~ cars; Cumberland Valley, nine
cars; Lehigh Valley, 76 cars: Maine
1 Central, 20 cars; New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford. 165 cars; New York
Central, 121 cars; P. & R., 206 cars: !:
Washington-Southern, 10 cars.
Comparison with the week before
shows that B. & o. ordered 11O cars
more than last week than the previous
week. New York, New Haven and
Hartford was As cars shy Of the preyl.
ous week, while New York Central
also dropped nine cars. P. & R. ad.
vanced but two cars last week OF tho
previous week.
Saturdays railroad fuel totaled 1876
cars, which was the lowest daily tom.
mage Of railroad fuel last week with
the exception of Wednesday when but
135 cars were loaded B. & o. was the
largest for the week with the excen.
tion of the banner one of Friday when
lis cars were loaded Saturdays TO-
tai was 101 cars for the B. & o. Cen.
trail of New Jersey, which ordered
seven cars on Friday dropped to fou,
cars Saturday.
Lehigh Valley was thirteen cars
This was about the average order that
Lehigh Valley ordered last week. Re
Gently the Lehigh Valley boosted its
order. The increased business only
recently came into the field. Just a
week or so the Lehigh Valley was
placing smaller orders. In the be
ginning Of the month the road did no,
place an order for single week. Las,
week it's orders were almost double
over that which was ordered earlier in
the month.
4 New York, New Haven & Hartford
was shy nine cars Of Fridays order
The Philadelphia and Reading railroad
ordered 40 cars on Saturday, six more
than on Friday.
Weekly Loading.
On the Monongah division of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad last week
there was loaded 1867 cars of coal
and coke. or this $3.50 cars were coal
and eight were coke.
The loading on the division on Sat
urday was 464 cars This was all coal
no coke having been loaded on Sat
urday. Three unconsigned cars were
added on Saturday. running the total
on the division today up to 916.
| The movement on Saturday con
sisted OF 40S cars of coal east and 80
west.
| Curtis Bay and Lakes.
!, Last week there were 325 cars sen,
to Curtis Bay while 2S6 cars were
shipped to the lakes. Other totals 10:
the week include the following: Mich
igan points, 72; Ohio, 30; miscellane-
Gus, 1876.
On Saturday Al cars were sent tc
Curtis Bay and II cars to the lakes
Seven cars went to Michigan points
six to Ohio points and 90 to miscel.
laneous points.
Il Working Conditions.
Today is Easter Monday, but gener
ally speaking the mines are working
Here and there some mines perhaps
may be closed down because of festivi
ties of miners, but as whole the min
ers want the work and are on the lob
Some mines are short on the numbe,
Of employees, however Today there
are $50 mines idle. This is the leas,
number idle since April Ii.
Last Monday 15s mines were down;
j Continued on pase faur.)