The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-09-29
Three Frick Mines Resume
Full Time Basis More
/ Steel Trade
.PHILLY IMPROVING
More Ernpties Ordered
and Unconsigned Loads
Lessen

! Here and there evidences are at
hand to indicate that the soft coal
business is on the mtAd. True the
| recovery is gradual and too slew
/ for the tradesmen OF Northern
West Virginia especially as to price
levels.
Three mines of the n. c. Frick
Coke Company resumed operation
on the Monongahela division Of the
Pennsylvania railroad near Union
! town, Pa. Monday these being
Continental /, Trotter and York
Run mines. Tho mines are run
ming full capacity and there are
straws that the steel business is
also on the mend.
Business is on the mend in the
east says Major Samuel D. Brady,
of the Brady Coal Corporation af-
ter returning this morning from o
trip to philadelphia. The genial
major admits that the recovery, Is
not as great as he would like to
see It but says there Is slight Inn
proYement. He says the non o.
union operations hnTe the edge=on
1.-THE sitfsffun but firnlS teYes;
thSf stness toe the Fairs
/ mont region in the east before
long.
There Is a slight Improvement in
freight business over the 4 Balti-
more &sOhio system according to
j. M, Scott. Wheeling, general
superintendent Of the West Virgin
Ia division. who is stopping. over
In Fairmont today. The increase
has not been great but nevertheless
! It is a step In the right direction.
Mr.. Scott's says that the No. 8
Ohio fields are continuing to send
quite a little coal to the lakes pro
| badly close to 500 cars day.
More empties are being ordered
today on the Monongahela railway
in Pennsylvania today than there
has been for long time. The
mines requested 335 cars;s which
were placed.
/ More empties are ordered today
in the Fairmont region than any
! mid-Week day for considerable
time. There are 1l70 empties or
dered by the operations along the
three railroads in the region as
follows: Monongah division, B. 8;
TO-. 76s; Monongakela 319 and
Western Maryland s3. The emp
ties ordered on the B. & o. was
the largest number requested since
Monday. which ran but 102 cars
more with one exception, Tues
day. today's' empty order on the
Monongaheia was the best this
week. Mines on the Western
Maryland ordered more empties. to-
day than any day this week with
! the possible exception OF Tuesday.
which was 116. Fifty-three empties
are ordered on the Charleston diYi-
sion. b. g. o. r. r.
Unconsigned loads are on the
wane today in the Fairmont re-
gion. There are fIfty-five fewer
than there were on Wednesday.
The total today Is 1874 CT which
169 are on the B. & o.; 8 On. the
Monongahela and 10 on the West
ern Maryland4the latter getting. rid
Of 60 yesterday. On, the Charles
ton division, b.. & o. r. R. there
are 3S unconsigned loads while
on the Monongahela in PennsylvR-
MIA there are 74tunconslgned loads
and unconslgned coke loads.
ThesEens Coal Fields.
Commenting upon the coal. situa-
tion in France and Germany a pub
location prints the following:
'In the Lens coal mining region
about. 80 per cent. OF the mines had
been destroyed by explosions or put
out of working order by flooding:
Some Of these mines never Will DO
worked again as the cost OF clear
Ing up thegshRfts and tunnels or
pumping them dry would equal the
estimated value OF the coal that
they could produce. American min.
ling engineers have offered o soln-
tion for this later problem, how.
ever, for several OF the flooded
mines; by suggesting that tun-
lneIbe driven under. 9 series OF them
and the flooded portions drained by
means Of It.
aIsWhere condit lions were favor
able mines have been opened up
| land are nowSprod oducingi but on the
whole very little work has been
done, the prohibitiye cost Of ma
chinery, at, this time, slonelprayent-
l1hg it. France Is now getting a
Ilarge quantity OF coal from Ger:
many and, with the output Of the
ls6ibpce and Lorraine basins, has q