The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-22
FEWER MINES WORK
Approach of Christmas
Season Sees Empty
Orders Lessen

Will US EeH1y LOT January OF r GU
ruary delivery. The Duouesne
Coal Company. Avella, Pa, located
along the Wabash railroad. about
fifteen miles northwest Of Pitts
burGA, has ordered a new shaker
screen equipment, including pick
Ing tables and loading booms.
The opperman Coal Company,
! Blair, W. Va, which has It's opera
tion on the Coal river branch Of
the C. & o. r. R., has connected
for a three track shaker screen
outfit. including picking tables and
loading booms.
Work Decreasing
Only forty mines on the three
railroads in the region were at
work today and some Of those on
partial time. AS was expected the
shut-downs at the mines would in
crease with the close approach Of
Christmas. Thlrty-one of tue
mines at work are on the Monon-
gah division, B. & o. while the
other mines are on the Mononga-
hela railway in West Virginia. Not
a single mine on tho Western
Maryland railway was working to-
day.
Ten operations on tho Charles
ton division had men in the pits
today, but only Is mines are active
on the Monongahela railway in
Pennsylvania.
I Orders for empties at the mines
were sliced down to 945 today on
| the three railroads! The Monon-
gah division, B. & o., ordered 435,
| the least of the present week-a
drop OF 17S from Wednesdays
order. While there was also a re-
trenchment on the Monon gahela
today il was not as pronounced as
on the D. & o. The operations on
the Monongahela ordered 210 emp
! ties or SO less than yesterday.
There has been general shading
Of empty orders on tho Morgan
town & Wheeling railway this
! week as there were but so empties
requested today-a drop OF 25
cars of yesterdays order. Not a
single empty was ordered today on
the Western Maryland railway.
| Forty empties today were or
dered by the mines along the
Charleston division.
3. & o. r. r. non.unIon mines,
! which operate along the MononEa-
Aela railway in West Virginia to-
| day ordered 231 empties.
| Freight Movement
Freight movement through the
Grafton gateway to the east over
! the d. & o. system has been aver
aging approximately $50 loads
| during the past few days with coal
movement running just n trifie
| better than 300 loads a day.
On Wednesday there were SOS
I loads OF freight moved in the
! seventeen trains over the noun
tains OF which $50 cars we're coal.
West Of the Monongah division. b.
/ & o., 274 cars of coal we're moved.
At midnight 672 east-bound
freight loads were unmOyed and of
that total $50 cars were coal.
Sixteen trains carried 54l
freight loads of which 800 were
! coal to the east on Tuesday while
western freight movement was 2O4
cars.
Pier Shipments Easing
Forty cars of coal were shipped
to Curtis Bay of the MonongAh
/ division, B. & .. on Wednesday.
Shipments on Tuesday and Wed
nesay showed general retrench-
/ ment compared to Monday b
strong total-1O4 cars. Eastern
coal loading was All cars while
that to the west was IS loads.
Wednesday Prediction
Coal loading in the Fairmont
region on Wednesday aggregated
S3s cars. At 455 cars the daily
loading on the Mono1fah division,
B. & o. proved to be the poorest
of the present week, but this waL
reversed in the case OF the Monoh.
caaeIa railway, which at 297 cars
proved 10 have the heaviest coal
| loading OF the present week. Along
tho Western Maryland railway
yesterday there were 86 cars OF
coal loaded. Fifty-six cars of coal
were loaded on the Charleston
division, B. & o., on Wednesday,
which was 27 cars more than the
/ Tuesday loading, but 10 cars less
J than Monday. Operations along
the Monongahela railway on We'd
nesday loaded 163 cars.
Two cars of coke we're loaded
on the Monongah division, B. &
O., on Wednesday but none of 1t
| was shipped out Of the region.
Coke production has been way of
for some months and little indtca-
tIons OF Improvement Thus far
Continued on 7ar' 'iEhA