The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-12-11
.alR SUPPLY Was
'IE.lR VANISHING
.Bl..IINT HERE TODAY.
.BraznelIs to Operate a
New Mine in Pres
ton County

IS . finale to rather depress.
ING week in local coal circles the
cprl supply took another bad turn
kcday IN the region, it being the
worst day IN a long time in THIS
respect. The market price Tor
pools 81 and Al remained about
The same as the last few days.
There were 14S mines down in the
region.
There were 1870 cars ordered
tcdSy. but the number OF cars in
s th6Yfesion numbered but 538 with
placements $50, including Ga coke
Easements, AZ B. M. l. KS, 20 for
the.3M. v. T. and 66 cars remaining
over from Friday. This Is such
loR figure that It is hardly sufh-
eient to care for the regular as
!, signments Of railroad fuel, Wnile
commercial car service is reduced
10 4 rock bottom minimum.
Yesterdays Loading.
The total loading in the region
vAsthrday was COL, with the coke
loading "a, or 577 for coal. The
eagtern coal shipments were 556
and 81 for western shipment. Coke
VoinE to the east was and west
am 4apments Is. Wagon loading
was L:
Curtis Bay received 43 loads and
st. Georges, 10. There were no
siiipments to Michigan poitks,
while Ohio points received II and
miscellaneous shipments were ~.
Railroad Fuel.
Railroad fuel yesterday totaled
404, the Baltimore and Ohio getting
III: Bangor and Arostock, 10;
] CentrM OF New Jersey, 10; Le-
hiEh Valley, 80; New York, New
Haven and Hartford, 20: Phila
delphla and Reading so: Maryland
and Pennsylvania, l; Erie, Z; Bos-
ton and Maine, 26; Maine Central
So; Central New England, %, ana
the P. r. r., L
on the Charleston division, the
loading yesterday was 166, and
railroad fuel SIS Of which the Balti-
more and Ohio got 10. The cars on
Lhe division ordered today we're
40. with only 95 In the region all
placed.
The Western Maryland loading
vas "a yesterday with about q 81
ser cent. supply or rs empties on
lap for today.
on the Monongahels road yes
.erday the loading in West Viz
Stniai district was 395 and In Penn
IyIyania 419. Placements today IN
Pennsylvania were 399 and in
west Virginia 25s, with 81 assign
I'D cars.
s. D. Brady, local coal operator
,k prominence, returned this morn
tnE from business trip TO the east.
], w. Howard OF the A. r. Ham
llton interests, will leave for the
sast this evening for a week end
Big Coal Deal.
The Morgantown New Dominion
announces q coal deal by which
David B. Roger, ]. X. Buchanan,
Louis Core, and Carl Roger, of this
eity, Roy Roger, Of Charleston, w.
va, and ]. B. Chevront, OF Camp
belisyfIle, KY, have leased to Carl
~ and r. A. Braznell, OF Pitts
burgh, Pa, so acres of Upper Free
mort coal located on Little Laurel
Run, two miles south OF Corinth,
Preston county. The royalty OF
he lease is announced as 10 cents
per ton.
The Braznells are well known
operators OF Western Pennsylva-
= SI.1a. r,-1Jn1 r,Inoa In tho vi.
Unity OF Brownsville and also on
Peters Creek, west OF Pittsburgh.
it Is, their intention, the lessons
lay, to sing a 100-toot shaft on the
property and build a large mining
plnnt with electric power equip
11ent the cost OF which will prob.
ably exceed 100000.
According to David B. Roger.
Who carefully Investigated the field
before the owners made their pur-
chase q few years ago, the coal in
he LAUREL Run valley Is exception
lIly low In sulphur and well suited
FOR usa in by.product ovens or me.
ohanical stokers, It's sulphur con-
tent being about OTIS per cent. and
It's British thermal unit content
Development in the Laurel Run
Held has been very rapid in the
last few years, there being several
plants withina radius Of two or
three miles Of the Preston railroad
which serves the various com.
pln1es.
stThe valley can best be describ-
sd asa second SCOTS Run" said
Er. Roger, in discussing the terri
Tory.