The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-31
Coal Commission Award to
be Settlement Basis is
Belief.
BUYERS IN THIS FIELD.
Export Business Continues
to Show Strength in
Fairmont Region.

Indications point to the conference
between the scale committee of the
bituminous coal operators of the cen
tral competitive field and the commit
| tee of the United Nine Workers of
America coming TO a close today.
This information was received today
/ in the Fairmont region. in the form of
wire from New York city. The set
tlement will be in accord with she
award of the coal commission, the
; wire states.
! According to an Associated Press
report from New York city, the wage
increase will mean an advance in coal
of from '65 cents to $1.25 ton.
Operators are quoted as saying that
they will make an effort to keep the
price down in order to avoid specu-
lation. Illinois is cited as the only
state where the minimum increases
( would apply, which is due TO certain
local conditions which lessons the
cost of production.
I Since the removal of bituminous
coal restrictions by the president, the
I dispatch says, large quantities Of coal
has been sold for April delivery at
$3.50 to 81 ton. In some fields as
much as S4.T5 a ton was received for
the coal
! Locally mines are working at full
] tilt while the negotiations have been
on. Prices have scared considerably
more than the government price.
+ There appears to be a tendency on
the part of the big coal companies to
prevent runaway market tomorrow
April 1-if they can get away with
/ it, but the little man is out to get the
limit. The larger companies realize
/ that high priced coal may mean re-
turn to price regulation something
equally as obnoxious to the coal in
dustry.
There are plenty of buyers in the
region today. In fact there is mark
cd activity in trading prior to April /.
Export Businss.
Export business appears to be pick
ing up. On Tuesday there were 206
car loads of coal shipped to Curtis
Bay. So far this week this is 5S1
car loads, which is heavier than the
shipments made in some weeks dur
ing March.
From what can be learned no
wholesale confiscations of export coal
! have been made, although it will re-
Quire several weeks to determine this.
Daily Car Supply.
Coal car placement this morning
at I o'clock was 26 per cent and the
! coal car run today was 81 per cent on
the Monongah division Of the Balt-
1 p
on the division total 552 and the ear
ily morning placement was 452. The
cars are classified as follows: Open.
$50; coke. %; n. e. c. K, three; M.
V. T., seven. Cars left over from the
! previous day are 26. Mines idle due
to car shortage are ~.
On the Monongahela railroad in
West Virginia this morning there
.lwere 145 cars placed and in the Penn
sylvania district there were 217 cars
placed,
j There is a full run of cars today on
the Helen's Run and Wyatt-Bingamon
branches of the Western Maryland
railroad. There are 130 empties. On
Tuesday there was short supply ex-
Iperienced.
Daily Loading.
Fairmont region on Tuesday load
ed 971 cars of coal and coke-955
cars Of coal and Is cars OF coke.
Mines along the Monongah division
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
on Tuesday loaded 725 cars of coal
and coke-709 cars OF coal and, 16
cars Of coke. There were 624 cars of
coal loaded east and S5 cars ofkcoal
loaded west. Six cars of coal were
loaded by wagon mines.
Operations along the Monongahela
railroad in the West Virginia district
on Tuesday loaded 246 acrs of coal.
On Tuesday the mines along these
Western Maryland spurs loaded SO
cars Of coal.
East of Grafton.
On Tuesday there were twenty-four
trains over the mountains east of
Grafton, which drew j ,162 loads.
Daily Consignments.
These daily consignments were
made on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road on Tuesday: Michigan points,
lnine cars; Ohio points, 80 cars; mis-
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