The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-06-28
BRADY MERGER.
WAS PUT into.
EFFECT MONDAY
Fairmont Region Loaded
1,192 Cars Of Coal
Yesterday

Detailed arrangements were
made to merge three coal com.
panies into the Brady Coal Cor
poration and increase the capital
stock from 100000 to $4,000, 900
as meeting Of the directors OF the
corporation, which was concluded
Monday evening at z o'clock. For.
mer Governor John ]. Cornwell,
w. Va, was retained as chief coun.
sci Of the corporation.
The Brady Coal Corporation alb.
sorbed the Abrams Greek Coal &
Coke company, the Usage Coal com.
pany and the Monongalia Coal com.
pany, thereby forming one of the
largest bituminous coal companies
in the state. With the merger in
effect the Brady Coal Corporation
will control 5000 acres OF Pitts
burgh, Sewickley. Redstone,
NNayneshurg, Bakerstown, Upper
Freeport, Upper kittannIng and
Lower Kittanning. The trade
names Of the coal will be retained
by the corporatlon-Monon coal;
Usage coal and Abrams Creek coal,
witch has been on the market
twenty yesrs and naturally the
Abrams Creek coal is especially
well known to the eastern trade.
BY the merger the Brady Coal
Corporation assumes charge Of six
mines. two at Usage, Monongalia
county; three at. Monon, Mononga.
liza county, and one at oakmont,
Mineral county. The first five men.
toned are on the Mononga ahela rail.
way and @oakm0nt is ON The West-
|ern Maryland railway. The Pitts.
burgh vein, Fairmont gas coal, and
the Sewickley vein; Fairmoht steam
coal, are both being. worked lat the
Usage and Monon mines while at
oaxmont the low volatile, smoke.
less coal is mined.
Some time ago the corporation
was formed when these officers
were elected: President, Major
Samuel D. Brady: vice president,
A. P. Brady: secretary and treas.
urer, S. Dunlap Brady, Jr.; assist.
ant to the president, James Close;
board OF directors, ]. Zell Brady,
Fairmont: DR.. 2. T. Kalbaugh,
Piedmont, W. Va; Charles Moore,
Brownsville. Pa; David c. Reay,
Morgantown; Charles A. Goodwin,
Morgantown.
The Brady Coal Corporation re-
Gently opened an eastern sales OF.
flee in Philadelphia with J. D. Hud.
dell general manager OF sales in
charge, the office being located at
1882 Commercial Trust building.
N. W. Va. Weekly Loading.
Mines in Northern West Vir.
glnia last week loaded S30,S00 tons
OF coal. This is the best loading
that hr been experienced since the
week ending May 2Sth, when 1t was
36S $50 tons.
The tonnage lined up as follows
last week: Monongah division, B.
& O., 20O,5O tons; Charleston d.
vision, 1880 tons; Connellsville
division, $3.50 tons; Cumberland
division, e,S50 tons: Monongahela
railway, 6S,600 tons;. Morgantown
& Wheeling, 16,750 tons; Western
Maryland = Bingamon & Helen's
Run branch, 1S,050 tons, Weaver
& Belington, $3.50 tons.
Production on the Morgantown
and Wheeling railway has been slip
ping back some recently as is the
Weayer.Belington branch OF the
Western MARYLAND railway.
Daily Railroad Fuel
Railroad fuel loading Monday
was a slight bit heavier than it has
been recently. A total of 1913 cars
Of coal were secured by the car
riers. The Baltimore and Ohio
railroad secured 109 cars of this.
This is the heaviest shipment of
fuel that the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad secured since May %
when It was 127 cars.
Daily Loading
Not since May 13 was there as
heavy coal loading in the Fair
mont region as Monday when the
total aggregated 1892 cars. The
tota lon May 18th was 1887 cars.
Heavy export shipments swelled
the tonnage considerable.
Mines along the Mcuongah d.
vision. Baltimore and Ohio rail-
roa don Monday loaded ss7 cars
of coal, which was the best show
ing made on the division since May
13 when the production was s33
cars.
Operations along the Mononga-
hea railway in West Virginia on
Monday loaded 202 cars OF coal,
which compared rather favorable
with the average daily loading OF
last week. In the Pennsylvania dis
trict there were 2e4 cars of coal
loaded. Twice within the past few
days the Pennsylvania end loaded
more coal than the West Virginia
end, although the general mine
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