The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-11-01
E.E.VA I9NNAGE
SHOWS STRENGTH
DURING THIS WEEK
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ftR Coal e Iron Co., Pittsburgh
was IN Morgantown on Monday.
8. f. Elkins, Of the E1hns Fuel
CO., has returned from a business
trtp 10 Cleveland.
Samuel PursegloYe, OF the Cleve
land & Morgantown Coal Co., re-
turned to his homo in Cleveland
after spending a week at the com
pany operation along scott's run,
Monongalia county.
The Preston County Coke Co. has
: put 80 OF its 1856 coke ovens into
bIast at Cascade, ". Va. Several
cars Of coke q day are being load
ed there.
It Is reported that the operations
of the Bethlehem Mines Corpora
ton at Richard, w. Va, arc being
cleaned up preparatory to resum
ing operation, but the date for re-
newed activity has not been an
s nounced as yet.
Ohio Rate Case
Today's issue of the Pittsburgh
8 Gazette Times prints the following
in regard to the Ohio rate case:
in mo indication was given at the
conclusion of the hearing at Allan
dc City today before Chief Exam
liner Robert e. Quirk of the Inter
State Commerce Commission whe-
ther Henry Ford's railroad, the
: Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, will
be permitted to reduce freight
crates on coal by % per cent.
1.-THE road requested the reduc-
tion but It has been held in abey-
anee until the full body Of the In
ter-State Commerce Commission
scan hear all the testimony. An ef-
fort yesterday OF the forces pro-
testing the reduction to have
Henry Ford subpenaed to testify
was bslked by Mr.. Quirk's refusal
Ito call him. on tho ground that
nothing the automobile manufac-
fturer and railroader could say
would add materially to the solu-
t,tion OF the problem.
81 yesterday afternoon the hear
ing took up the question Of freight
rates on coal in Ohio, West Vir-
sefnia, parts of Pennsylvania and
other nearby states. The New
York Central, the Pennsylvania,
the Baltimore and Ohio and the
chesapeake and Ohio RAILROADS are
represented by counsel.
''6afore the hearing adjourHs
the Question of whether or not the
Ohio State Utilities Commission
has the right to hold up freight
reductions will come up"
Personal Mention
Harry b.. Clark OF the Clark
coal interests is In Baltimore,
where his sor. Harry, will undergo
an operation at Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
Howard w. Showalter, OF the
Diamond Coal Co., Is home from
Pittsburgh.
Plans are being made to open
mine of the New England Fuel
& Transportation Co., at Arnetts'
Vile, Monongalia county, W. Va.
This will be developed into a large
operation.
Seventeen trains were moved on
the B. & %. R. r. east Of Grafton
yesterday wehe GIG loads were
drawn. OF the total there were
474 loads Of coal West off tie
Monongah division there were 391
loads Of freight moved.
At midnight there were
east-bound loads Of coal on tho
Monongah Division Of which $50
cars were coal.
Daily Shipments
Fifty cars Of coal we're loaded to
Curtis Bay off the Monongah divl.
sion, B. & o. R. II. on Monday.
One car Of coal was shipped to the
There we're $40 cars of coal
loaded to the east and "A cars to
Daily n. II. Fuel
Railroad fuel loading Off the
Monongah division, D. C o. OF
Monday aggregated S73 carloads.
The B. 6 o. R. R. secured ISL
cars of coal while foreign carriers
received 92 cars Of fuel.
Mondays Loading
Coal loading in the Fairmont
region on Monday totaled 9S1 cars.
Not since October 3rd did the daily
loading in the region run that
low on a Monday. Mines alonR
the B. & b. loaded 564 cars OF
coal while the operations on the
Monongahela loaded AIT cars of
Soal. No coal was loaded on the
Western Maryland railway yester.
day.
Plants along the Charleston divi-
sion, B. & o. r. r. on Monday
loaded 6S cars OF coal while those
on the Monongahela in Pennsyl>
vania district loaded 351 cars.
All Saints Day
Because of the observance Of All
Saints Day in the Roman Catho-
Lie church there are large num-
Der Of miners out OF tho pits today
in the region. Production will
slump some because OF the obsery
anc4 OF the day. Although tho
empty order today was but 142
shy of Mondays.
Today there are 1040 empties
ordered by the mines located on
the three railroads OF the region.
OF that total there arc 637 on the
Monongah division, B. & o. and
402 ON the Monongahela in West
Virginia but none are ordered on
the Western Maryland railway to-
dR7, this having been the second
blank drawn there this week. In
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