The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-10
Region May Run 800 Cars
Short-W. M. Alone
Gains
.LANBIE COMING HERE
Mechanical Mining Start
les Mining Institute
Session

Coal loading in the FaIrmont re-
giou this week will fall of 700 TO
500 cars aor more. On the three
railroads including Friday there
were 1894 cars OF coal loaded
against 5.22O cars for all Of last
week.
This is a difference OF 1896 cars
and barely 500 cars viii be loaded
today. Totals for the five days are
; as follows: Monongah division, d.
! & o., 2,2T0 cars of coal and Is cars
of coke: Monongahela in West Vlr.
ginla, 1,19S cars; Western Mary
| laud, 356 cars. Loading on the Mo
nongahela In Pennsylvania for the
| first five days Of this week is 1859
cars while that on the Charleston
division. y. & O., is 253 cars.
The Western Maryland will gain
100 cars. the Charleston division, B.
Ia o. will show slight gain, but
both districts of the M0nongahela
railway and the Monongah division,
B. & o. will show loss.
Lambie is Coming.
R. NJ. LambIe, Charleston. chief
Of the department of mines OF West
Virginia, will come TO Fairmont on
official business on Thursday. Of
next week. according to informa-
tlon received by W. B. Riggleman,
Fairmont, mining inspector OF this
district.
State Mining Institute.
Sessions Of the West Virginia
Mining Institute, which were con
cluded in Charleston "Wednesday
Afternoon were very interesting, nc.
cording to Joseph Reed, director OF
safety work, Consolidation Coal
company, who has just returned
40 doubt the most startling paper
read at the institute was that OF
Carl Scholtz, Charleston, vice presi-
dent and general manager Of the
raleigh Wyoming Coal company.
who strives for new type OF min
ing which would revolutionize the
present system. Mr.. Scholtz faTors
entry driving by machine for quick
development, slabhinS Of the entire
room and loading out by machin-
cry duTinga period when the de-
mand is great and prices are high.
Instead OF stocking coal outside
Of the mine which would detertor
ate tho plan would be to hold 1t
within but be in position to load
It with haste when the demand was
on
An interesting paper was read by
r. NJ. L.amble. Charleston, chief of
the department Of mines, who said
men trained for rescue work should
know more about mine gases. ventt-
latlon and the knowledge to read
blue prints. He fayors thirty.dNy
course for mine rescue work In
stead of five days. Mr.. Lambie was
! in mine where g fire was on and
not a man In there could read Il
blue print. He wondered what
might of happened to the other men
Z II he had been oyertaken.
The institute elected these oifl-
GERS:
President, E. D. Knight, Of Kay
ford; secrctary.trcasurer. Il. e.
Sherwood, of Charleston; first vice
president, ]. w. Reid, OF FairmOnt;
second vice president, II. F. Carson,
Of Huntington; third vice prosI.
dent, w. +. Fohl, of Pittsburgh.
Pa: fourth vice president. r. NJ.
Lambie. of Charleston; fifth vice
president. Elwood E. Jones, OF
StOtesbury.
Executive board. W. Bischofr,
Of Elkins: Frank Haas. of Fair.
mont: Carl Scholtz, OF Charleston;
Josiah Keely, OF Kayford.
Coal men from Northern West
Virginia present included Joseph
! Reed, Fairmont: F. K. Day. Clarks.
burg, representing C. II. Tarletton,
general manager o fthe West Vlr-
ginla district, Consolidation Coal
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