The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-21

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mainder will pour into the region
about O'Clock this Afternoon.
There are no dead loads along the
Western Maryland today.
Elected Director.
At meeting of the stockholders
OF the Abrams Creek Coal and
Coke company yesterday Samuel
D. Brady, Jr., was eelctcd a direc-
tor OF that concern.
Going TO Cuba.
Attorney Charles E. Hawker,
woh has been connected with a
number Of coal transactions in this
section Of the state, will leave on
Sunday for Washington, D. c.,
from which point he will go to
Florida by rail over the Atlantic
Coast Lien and East Florida route.
From Key West he will go by obat
to Cuba. He will be accompanied
by Mrs. Hawker and they will visit
various isles of the West Indies.
He will return to t'ailmont in the
spring.
H. G& ~ NAOgCIuCI1L~
East Of Grafton on Monday the
B. G. o. moved rs trains which
LIS loads were drawn, of which
927 loads were coal. West OF the
NIonongah division there were 4l8
loads moved yesterday. This morn
ing there were 1900 aest bound
loads on the division.
etoT-4iur. N1,enInevG
Three openings for the develop
ment OF the 1000 acre tract of
Pittsburgh coal of the Connells-
vile B-Product Coal company were
started last Friday along SCOTS
Run, near Barker. Monongalia
county, West Virginia. Two of
these are slopes and one is a small
shaft. Coal will start to be loaded
at the new mine aobut March 1.
Daily Shipmctns.
Shipments off the Monongah
division OF the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad on Monday we're as fol-
lows: Curtis Bay, 1862 cars; St.
Georges, 12 cars; Michigan points.
81 cars; Ohio points, 81 cars; mis-
cellaneous western shipments, 50
cars.
Railroad Fuel.
The heaviest daily railroad fuel
loading Of the year was observed
off the Monongah division of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad on
Monday, when 522 cars of this type
of business went out Of the region.
The daily record for railroad fuel
loading was established on Decem-
Der ~, 1919, at 628 carloads. The
bituminous strike was then on in
all sections of the country except
the Fairmont region.
Yesterdays loading consisted of
278 cars of foreign fuel and 244
cars Of D. &. o. guel. Now that
coal is cheap the railroads appear
to be the chief bueyrs in this re-
Eion. The B. & o. loaded up heavy
yesterday. The short arrival of
the Christmas holidays has proba-
bly, stimulated shipments some
what.
Consignments OF the division
were as follows: B. G. o., 244 cars;
Bangor and Arostock, nine cars;
C. of N. j., "a cars; Lehigh Valley,
20 cars; New York, New Haven
and Hartford, So cars; P. & R., 62
cars; Boston and Maine, 20 cars;
Maine Central, Sc cars; Maryland
Pennsylvani,a one car; Erie, four
cars; West Shore, 16 cars; Central
of New England, 10 cars.
Daily Loading.
Fairmont region on Monday
loaded 1873 cars of coal and coke
-1,651 cars of coal and 90 cars
of coke.
Operations along the MonOngah
division of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad on Monday loaded 1884
cars of coal and coke-1,2 61 cars
Of coal and % cars of coke. The
coal was loaded / ,073 cars east and
l39 cars west. Coke loading was
IL cars east and IL cars west. One
olne car. Of coal was loaded by
wagon mine yesterday.
A total Of 232 cars Of coal was
loaded on the Monongahela rail-
way in West Virginia on Monday.
Mines in the Pennsylvania district
on Monday loaded 3S4 cars OF coal
on Monday.
Along the Helen's Run and Wy
att-Bingamon branches of the
Western Maryland railway on Mon
day there were 108 cars of coal
loaded-63 cars of coal on the
Helen's Run branch and 4 5 cars
on the Wyatt Bingamon branch.
Mines along the Charleston
division OF the Baltimore and Ohio