The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-08

cars misceIIaneous western points,
80 cars. q 4 4
Railroad Fuel.
Railroad fuel loaded on the Bait
moro and Ohio railroad on Monday 10.
taisl 2Il cars. OF this the B. & o.
railroad secured SO cars; Bangor &
AT9stock, 25 cars; G. of n. J., 20 cars /;
lrchtgh Valley, 80 cars: New York
Central 90 cars; Z. e. R., AZ cars; Bos.
ton & Maine. 20 cars.
United Mine Workers.
-. +. keeney, Charleston, president
81 district II, and Nick Ateilo, district
hoard member, are at Ida May today.
joan Custalac and Davis Ware, dis.
t:Ict board members, are at the Davis
nice at Morgautown today.
Edward Matthew'S secretary of dis.
tflct II, 4. A. Scott, international
board member. and Z. S. Mccullough,
labor commissioner OF the Northern
West Virginia Coal Operators Asso-
citation, are in the Clarksburg field
William Petry, vice president of dis.
triGt IL has returned to Charleston.
w. F. Ray, district board member,
rs expected TO return from Charleston
on Wednesday.
Secures Equipment.
It is the opinion Of ]. Clark Evans,
salesmanager Of the Tairmont Min.
ing Machinery company, that despite
the price OF materials In the business
world these days there>is DISPOSE.
ton to extend mining operations,
This has been noticed at the local fac.
cory, which is busy turning out min.
ing equipment.
Recently the Fairmont Mining Ma.
cnlnery company received number
OF orders for mining equipment. The
Pine Run Coal company, New Beth.
lehem, Pa. has ordered two equip
ments. These include weighing,
screening and loading equipment o..
20 tons an hour capacity. One of these
machines is constructed so as to han
Ole Two different seams OF coal. This
equipment Is for the companys mines
at New Bethlehem, Pa.
Get River Equipment.
The Richland Coal company, Wheel.
ing, w. Va, has ordered from the
Fatrmont Mining Machinery company,
a river loading equipment which they
WIN put into operation at their mines
along the Ohio river at Wheeling. By
TINS equipment barges can be loaded.
me equipment consists ora conveyor
and loading boom with a DISTRIBUTING
chute and barge shifter.
Secure Mine Cars.
FIFTY mine cars have been ordered
by The Gilbert Coal COMPANY, Tim.
bin, Pa. from The FairmonL Mining
machinery company. Some weeks ago
TINS concern ordered conveyer from
the local company.
Off on Trip.
). clark Evans, sales manager of
The Fairmont Mining Machinery com.
pany, left this afternoon for a bust.
ness trip to the Logan and Kanawna
tlelds, where he expects to land some
contracts for The Fairmont Mining
Machinery company.
Curtis Bay Tonnage.
curtis Bay shipments on the Balti-
tailed 1,076 car loads, or 572 loads
less than the previous week, but l29
Ioads short of two weeks. There was
a slight gain in lake tonnage last
week-the heaviest since the week
ending April IT. ~
Other shipments off the B. & O.
railroad last week were as follows:
81: Georges, 107 cars; lakes, So cars:
Michigan points, As cars; Ohio points.
lO5 cars; miscellaneous western
points, 222 cars. -
The Fairmont region last week pro-
duced 5,4l4 cars of coal and coke
266,0O0 tons of coal and So cars of
coke. VI
Operations along the Mononrab
division of the Baltimore and Ohio
Ohio railroad last week produced
4.Ol9 cars (200,950 tons) OF coal and
81 cars of coke. This is S15 cars of
coal and coke less than the first week
OF June, 1919, although the observ-
ance of Memorial Day fell last week
whtel 1t was not included in the cor,
responding week of last year. Last
weeks coke production at So cars
was far in excess of the same week
last year, when it was but seven cars.
Last week there were 1902 cars Of
coal loaded east and 416 cars west.
with 81 cars of coke being loaded east
and Fl cars west. Wagon mines last
week loaded 40 cars OF coal.
Last week the mines along the Mo-
nongahela railway in the West Vir-
gtnia district loaded 1914 cars of coal.
while operations in the Pennsylvania
district loaded 1.006 car loads.
Mines along the Helen's Run and
Wyatt-Bingamon branches of the
western Maryland railroad loaded
SIG car loads.
-------1 7---------=---