The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-12-13
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TEACH SAFETY
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Whils the car Is in the Fairmont
region It is planned to IN
strnct the students at the several
mFnfng extenton schools in first aid
8 mine rescue or both as the ar.
~angeuientB can be made. The
schools are located at Fairmont,
O1nrksburg. Mt. Glare, Shinnston.
ida May.carolina.
Weekly N. w. Va. Tonnage.
Mines OF Northern West Virginia
Est week loaded 258,250 tons Of coal
or 1880 cars less than the previous
week. The production by railroads
gas as follows: B. & o. system
b e o.-12T,750 tons; Charleston
dfvision, 1900 tons: Connellsville
division, $500 tons; Cumberland
division 10000 tons; Monongahe.
Ill, $3.50 tons: Morgantown and
wheeling, 22.350 tons; Western
MARYLAND Standardization and
Heien's Run, $3.50 tonsc Beling.
ton and Weaver, 1850 tons.
Personal Mention.
samuel D. Brady. OF the Brady
Coal Corporation, left last night for
New York.
William B. Taylor. general mana.
ger, and ]. S. Amend, auditor, jam
fson g, & G. Co.. returned to Greens.
burg, Pa, last night. c. Z. Cowan,
chief engineer, will probably return
to Greensburg today.
], 3. Gaskill, Southern Coal Cor.
~poration, will return today from
Pittsburgh.
Daily Shipments.
Five cars of coal were loaded TO
Curtis Bay off the Monongah dtvi-
sion, B. & o. R. R., on Monday
while IA cars were loaded east and
SO west, One car Of coke was load.
ed east and ono west.
Railroad fuel shipments were
stronger on Monday of the division
than for some days at 256 cars OF
which the B. & o. secured 1877 cars
and foreign carriers 10 cars. Fuel
going to railroads of tho Charles
ton division, B. & o. yesterday were
as ears OF which the B. & o. Sc
cured II cars.
Daily Movement.
Only eight trains were moved east
~ Grafton on the B. & o. r. Il.
yesterday. OF the 295 loads moved
IA were coal. Western coal ship
ments were 316 cars. At midnight
$50 loads OF freight were moved OF
which 450 cars were coal.
Monday Loading.
Coal loading in the FairInont re.
zion on Monday was 9O7 cars ana
AZ cars Of coke. Mines on the MO
nongah division loaded 512 cars OF
coal: those on tho Monongahela,
250 cars, and the operations on tho
western Maryland, 145 cars. West
ern Maryland production alone
shows improvement, the others re
naming about the same or a tritle
Operations on the Charleston dl.
vision. B. & O., loaded 4S tcars OF
coal and the plants along the MO-
,nonrahela in Pennsylvania 217 cars.
Mining Conditions.
Sfxty.tTo mines out Of 300 are
nj work in the Fairmont region to-
3day-44 on the 3. & o.; 4 on the
western Maryland and II on the
hfonongaheIa. On the Charleston
ldiyision. B. & O., today IL out OF
81 mines. are working and on tne
Monongahsla railway In Pennsyl.
yania there are II out OF LOU a.
work. More mines are working 70
day on the MonongaheIa in west
Virginia than for some days.
To-day there r 955 empties or
dered in the region az follows: b.
3& o.. 400; Monongahela, 3l9; west
arm Maryland, 1877. Operations along
The Charleston division, B. & O., or
deTed 80 emptjes while the mines
aiong the Monongahela In Pennsyt'
Yanfa ordered 212.
Work Is Uncertain.
Working conditions at the GRAM
Toym plant Of the New England
Fnel and Transportation, It is IN
derstood, will be affected constd'
srsbiy BY the holidays and extend
inf over in the New Year. 1t Is re-
ported that the company has been
OBLIGED to compete with non'union
comuetition in the east, and there
fore 10 sstisfy their customers they
SSili 20 on the market and buy non
inion coal at from 80 cents to a
dollar cheaper on the ton
Less TO Curtis Bay.
q BulpuSuLS uh SAS ~
nongah division. B. & o. r. R., last
week aggregated but 1856 cars OF
coal, which is a drop Of 277 cars
less than the previous week. Little !
if any Of this coal is really going
abroad, but appears to be shipped
coagt.wise to New England. Airing:
ton pier shipments last week OF
The division totaIed 25 cars.
Weekly r. r. Fuel.
Weekly railroad fuel loading on
the Monongah division, b. & O..
r, r., totaled 1905 cars or 50 cars
less than the previous week. As 8:
whole railroad fuel loading has
dropped about 200 car a week COM
pared to the weekly totals of Octo-
her. Railroads apparently have
lstored considerable coal. Last week
tie B, & o. r. R. Individually Sc
cured 56S carloads OF 20 cars more
than the previous week, but foreign
roads with a total Of GAO cars
ahowed a drop of III cars compared
To the previous week,
Movement Eases.
General freight movement on the
Monongah division, T. & o., and
through the Grafton gateway
showed an ease UP last week. 4
total of 4,447 freight loads or 1873