The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-29
Many Mines are Reported
Idle Throughout The
Region
LOADS Accumulate
Railroads Continue T o
Take Large Amount
of Fuel

A period OF easing up continues
at the mining operations in the
Fairmont region today. Operators
are not working their plants be.
cause the price of coal has fallen
below the cost Of production. Con.
Germs that are working their mines
are loading contracted coal, includ-
ing goodly proportion Of assign
ed cars.
Today there are 81 mines idle in
the region. OF that number there
are rs idle along the. Monongah di-
vision OF the B. & o. R. r. Ten
operations are idle today along the
Helen's Run and Wyatt-Blngamon
| branches while six mines are closed
down because OF the lack Of or
ders along the Monongah railway.
The Consolidation Hutchinson and
Jamison Coal companies had all of
their operations working today.
The Robinson interests, S. D. Bra
dy interests and the Clark inter-
I.ests were among the big companies
that had some OF their mines down.
j, Dead loads on the Monongah di.
vision OF the B. & o. R. R. this
morning were reported to be 81
cars. Along the Monongshela rail-.
way to- daY$no "a lQsd are Ersi
p6Fteda 5Repor rts were current tos
day that some Of the coal COM
panies had let out salaried people,
but this Is not true in the cases OF
the larger organizations In the In
dustry.
Orders are few and far between
in the market and in fact there is
not sufficient business just at this
time to establish q market. The
stoppage OF work at many mines
will cut the production greatly and
this will have a tendency to eltmt'
nate surplus coal providing this
plan is more generally followed by
mines not loading on contracts.
Tuesdays Loading.
Considering the limited demand
coal appears to be moving along
fairly we'll when a comparison or
, the production and the dead loads
is made. Naturally the east fur
nishes the general outlet Of bust.
ness, fully 90 per cent. OF the coal
going in that direction.
Operations in the Fairmont re-
gion on Tuesday aggregated 1854
cars OF coal and Coke-1,S25 cars
or $500 tons Of coal and 29 cars
OF coke.
OF the total 1854 cars of coal
and coke produced in the region
the mines along the MonOngah di'
vision of the 3. &s o. r. Il. on Tues
day loaded 1,076 cars OF 1t. This
consisted Of 1,047 cars or 62,35O
tons of coal and 20 cars Of coke.
The coal loading was 976 cars east
and IL cars west. Coke loading
continues to hold up well, there
having been 13 cars loaded east
! and 16 cars west. One car OF coai
was loaded by wagon mine.
Mines along the Monongahela
railway In West Virginia on Tues
I day loaded 206 cars Of coal Oper.
ations in the Pennsylvania end
produced 300 cars Of coal.
Along the Helen's Run and
Wyatt t-Bingamon branches OF the
Western Maryland railway on
Tuesday the operations loaded u
cars Of coal-40 cars on the Helen's
Run branch and 2S cars on the
Wyatt -Bingamon branch.
A total Of 135 cars Of coal were
loaded by the mines along the
Charleston division OF the B. & 0.
R. R. Fifty.five cars OF railroad
fuel were loaded yesterday. or
that 80 cars were taken by the B.
& o.
Daily Car Supply
Emptles continue to pour Into
the region in far greater numbers
than the majority Of the operators
desire them.
On the Monongah division OF the
B. & o. r. R. today there are 2.3s6
emptIes OF which 1890 were placed
by Z o'clock this morning. The
mines ordered 1,17S empties OF
which 70 were ordered for coke
loading. Empties are classified as
follows today: Open, 1856; coke,
~: B. NJ. /. K, 316; NJ. v. T.. 43.
Cars left over from the previous
day we're S27.
Along the Monongahela railway
today there are 232 empties placed
Of which 1O9 empties are assigned
for railroad fuel. There are Is
empties along the MOrgantown and
Wheeling railway today. In the
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