The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-11-09

I mas y peAtEa oAAAG4esAAl y T. r.
there were 1g2 loads sen
fast week on the Monougah AZ 9lssli
l6e the B, e o. n r.
\ Lake Situation.
4 Coal Is being dumped more re-
idlv than 1t Is being brought Tor ~
nj the lake front according 70 re
ports received here. Boats aFess
more plentiful than cHrgoes ana
some OF the regular traders VIII
have to go up light The rRilroaoss
had 9.4Sl cars at tho lake front
Friday morning and only 2,SS6 cars
I'm transit The docks dumped sss
/ 726 cars Thursday and receipts
were .s45 cars. Loading for Fri
day was estimated !; ESQ cars.
Weekly r. r. Fuel.
Railroad fuel loading along the
Monongah division OF the B. & R.
X r. fell of 325 loads when CON
pared with the previous week, but
las, week OF coures the lull tncf
dent to the election also affected
railroad fuel loading The total.
Tor last week was 1906 carloads
u. & O, tonnage has fallen on
greatly and that system is now re,
sorting 10 coniisCating fifty cars OF
lQGl 4 Gay 1T tut hlIiCS' 1AS
nation OF this practice Is about the
only good thing that ever could pe
said In favor OF the injurious
TEN Of assigned cars.
COnsgnmcnls TO the various cur.
rirrs last week were as follows' %
4 o.. $40 cars; Bangor and ATos'
toCk, SO cars; G. OF \. u, 10 carsi
! G. OF n. j., 81 cars; L. VI. 81 cars
I n. v. y. H. & H., los cars; Z. 9
r.. 327 cars; Boston and Maine,
81 cars; Maine Central, 1AS cars
Erie. IL cars. West shore, 171
cars. Boston and Maine and New
York. New Haven and HARTFORD
showed tendency to increase
f, their tonnage over the previous
week.
! The Wagon Mines.
+, Wagon mine operations along the
Monongah division OF the y, g Q.
! K. r. last week produced but q
carloads of coal. The best week
! for heavy production for some time
was that ending October %, when
the aggregate was 80 carloads.
/, With the price OF coal on the de-
| cline IL is evident that this class
OF coal production will continue 70
be on the decrease within the spext
few weeks II not for a longer%psrs
Iod OF time.
Western shipments last week
took boost on the Monongah dls
vision OF the B. & 0. X. r. Iut fact \,
they proved 10 be stronger tdhR
! they had been for more than two
months. Miscellaneous western
shipments last week we're los car
loads stronger than the previous
week. Michigan points were heays
! Ter last week, aggregaung 81 cars
heavier than the previous week
while Ohio point shipments ct l35 :
! carloads we're 43 cars stronger
! than the previous week.
Holding Conference.
AT the University OF Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, on Friday and Saturt
! day, November 26 and ~, the blu;
reau OF education of the United
] States Department of the Interior
and the subject for discussion Will
/ be the special needs Of, mining
towns. A number Of mining peu'
pie from Maryland, West Virginia
and western Pennsylvania WIZ hf
In attendance.
Among the speakers will
NJ. P. Shawkey, state superintt
ent OF free schools Of West vi
ginia; Prof Robert Q. Virgin. teen.
meal editor of The Coal Trade But II
letir, and assistant director OF coal
mining at Carnegie School Of Tech;
nology, Pittsburgh, who was for
merly connected with the mining
department OF West Virginia Uni.
versity. Morgantown, ". Va, and Z
Miss Clare Fishpaugh, Kayford, w.
Va.
| A dispatch from Washington
Pa, says: zone OF severaI coal y
land deals reported here IN the past
week, which has caused consider I
able interest, was the sale 70 30;
siah v. Thompson Of UnioptoWnli
Pa, by Inghram Cummings, Of
acres Of Whitley and Frankly
township land for consideration
STG,95O The sale brought 82S an
acre. The greater part OF the bur
/ chases in the deals reported WAS
made by the Greene Improvements s
company and the WHITLEY Coal
company, both Pittsburgh con,
Germs. Deeds were filed for record
at the office Of the Greene county
recorder yesterday for the tranl.
fer OF sixty-seven acres from ~.
Zimmerman, Of WHITLEY towuahtp
and twenty-five acres from Mrs.
James Mooney OF the same towns
ship to the Whitley coal concern
Johnstown Meeting.
! A Fair Practices committee has
been formed by the PenusylYapta
Coal Operators Association, at
cording to a dispatch sent out frqtf
Johnstown, Pa, and its first meet
| ing will he held this week, last
week there was decided improve.
ment in the car supply in Cambria
| and Somerset counties, Pa.