The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-19

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foreign railroads got any tonnage
for n change.
Eastern Movement.
! Freight movement through the
| Grafton gateway was averaging
approximately 600 loads during
/ the past few days and coal move
ment was averaging a trifie over
400 loads a day.
On Sunday there were nineteen
trains drawn east of Grafton in
which GIG freight loads were
drawn and OF that number AL cars
were coal. To the west there were
223 loads. At midnight 333 loads
Of freight were bound for the east
Of which 1852 cars were coal.
With seventeen trains over the
mountains on Saturday there were
565 freight loads moved of which
80 cars were coal. West off the
IIonongah division there were 29S
Dads moved.
Sixteen trains east of Grafton
on Friday drew 654 loads of
freight of which 459 cars were
'oal. To the west were 345 loads
/ Of freight drawn.
Saturdays Loading.
Coal loading in the Fairmont re-
gion hit another low mark on Sat
nrday and no doubt among the
weakest of the year-411 cars. on
The three railroads. Production on
the MononRah division, B. G. 0. r.
R., dropped down to 1852 cars,
which wa sid cars less than last
Thursdays low mark-276 cars.
Along the Western Maryland rail
way there was no coal loaded on
Saturday. Loading on the Mon
Ongahela railway in West Virginia,
took a slump also on Saturday,
dropping down to 149 cars, one of
the poorest daily loadings for a
long time, and about the weakest
showing of the year, other than on
holidays.
Sixteen cars Of coal were loaded
on the Charleston division, B. & o.
on Saturday. Even the non-union
mines along the Monongahela rail
way in Pennsylvania loaded but
1854 cars of coal on Saturday.
Business conditions generally are
Shot" but the trade is hoping
that the youngster, 1922, might
have something in the making.
Reports are current that the steel
Industry is slowly getting back on
its feet, but generally speaking it
has not hit clip to reflect very
much in the coal industry.
This week starts off with fifty
seven mines in operation on the
three railroads out of a possible
300. This is a decided improve
ment over the latter part Of last
week, but three less mines work
/ ing than on Monday of last week.
Of the 81 mines at work today
there are &c active on the Monon-
gah division and II on the Monon-
gahela in West Virginia, Every
bne of the 10 mines on the West
rrn Maryland are down fiat today.
On the Charleston division, B. &
o., today there are 10 mines at
work out of 81. Nineteen out of
100 mines are working today on
The Monongahela railway in
Pennsylvania.
A total OF 1895 empties are or
dered today on the three railroads.
A total OF 1923 empties are ordered
by mines on the Monongah divis-
ion, B. 4 o. md 212 on the Mon
ongahela In West Virginia. No
ompties are ordered on the West
.ern Maryland today.
Oerations on the Charleston d.
vision B. & o. today ordered 60
empties while on the Monongaheln
in Pennsylvania the mines ordered
1873 empties,
United Mine Worners
Frank Mccartney, district board
member, and James McClesEy, dis
trIct organizer, and E. S. McCul.
Tough. labor commissioner, North
err West Virginia Coal Operators
Association, were at Viropa and
Hutchinson this morning and the
three will take up a case at the
Fairmont Shaft Mine this alter
noon.