The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-08-31
PernanaI Mentlen.

Vine IS, has bssn Transferred to
Mas ~, Gypgss
Personal Mention,
Howard W. shoWaltaT, Diamond
Ceal ecmpsuy, has returned from
e BUSINESS TIP TO Pittsburgh.
Y 3 Hayes, Pittsburgh, Of tia
salss department., Janison 6. q 9,
CO.. returned 70 Pittsburgh iRsI
aistt
]. salzer. general manager Of
the Southern Coal Corporation, was
- weston yesterday. He 10 re
cstSer Of the Stone Coal Co., and
VS. 70 have offered the property
soL that concern ct receivers sale,
but the court postponed the sale nm.
" Tuesday September 81, at 1880
O'clock
Everett Drenner, Eikins, presi.
dent Of the West Virginia Coal and
Coke Co. was Ia Fairmont this
week
A. Is knowles, New York, coal
man, was n the, region early this
Using New TIppis,
The new upple Of the No. mine
Of the West Virginia Coal and Coke
company az Norton, near Elkins,
was put 10 commission about the
Middle Of tho month when the first
coal was loaded over this tlpple.
Owing TO the fact that business mas
been rather slack no effort was
rade BY the company to rush work
IN thiB ipple, IL having been IN.
les construction for the last slz
months, This structure II equipped
With facilities for screening coal
and when the occasion requires as
much as 5000 tons a day can be
dnnped over the tippls and han.
A Coal Movement
ssyerteen trains on the B. & o,
r r drew 500 loads OF freight
east Of Grafton on Tuesday OF
which ta4 cars were coal. West off
the Morengah division there were
32s loads OF freight moved OF
whtca 100 cars were coal. This
morning there were 637 east-bound
loads on the division OF which $50
Fefe coal.
Tuesdays Shipments
Not q single ca Of coal was ship.
ped % the lakes, Curtis Bay or St.
Georges of the Monongsh division
40. r. R. on Tuesday.
There were 400 cars ofcoal load
ed east and % cars west.
Dali n. II. Fuel
RaIlrotN fuel proved TO be the
biz and OF the business on the
MonongaA division, B. & o. r. R,
Yesterday. Forty-efght per cent Of
the coal loaded on Tuesday on the
division went to the carriers
There we're 1877 cars OF coal receiv.
edsby, the lB. & o. R. R., which
appears to be securing more coal
recently Foreign carriers secur.
edo cars Of coal.
Tuesdays Loading
With 81 cars OF coal loaded
ruesday the production in the
Bslrmont region was about the
sBest II has been for almost two
weeks. excepting Saturdays, which
always run low.
= Mines along the Monongah dlvi.
ntpn, 3, e o. R. R. loaded 431
esrssosleoai. while those on the
Mcnongahela in West Virginia
Needed $40 cars. Not a single car
q coal was loaded yesterday on the
western Maryland railway. Opera.
lions along the Charleston division
y g orr. R., on Tuesday loaded
cars Of coal against "a on Mon.
say. a total OF a0i cars Of were
loaded on the Monongahela railway
IN PennsylyaniR.
Mining Conditions
Mining conditions are falling te
4 Improve. Il anything conditions
are q slight bit worse. Today there
are 2s1 mines Idle in the region
whlea leaves but forty-three al
work, For mld-weex the mine
Z idleness today is usually unfayor.
ebie. IN fact this Is the most acute
nine tdlspess on record with the
exceptions OF Saturdays during the
\ preeent depression In the coal In.
= dtstry.
TIE Menongah division, 3. & O.
4. q. showed further signs Of die.
treas With 2oe mines down today
sgainst 200 yesterday. On the
4 MonenglhelE railway In West vir.
ginil there are IS operations dowr
fiat while on the Western Mary.
h land not ono Of th1 mines Is work,
y ing today. ThtrtS-four mines are
atwork today on the Monongah d.
Vision 3. q o. r. R.; nine on thu
MononEahell In West Virginia ant
none on the Western Maryland
Outside Of the Fairmout region
working conditions are not I'm
: proving IN West Virginia fields
there being "a mines down on the
Charleston division. B. & o. R. R
ori2 Of work while on the Monon,
g6hell railway In Pennsylvania
there are rs operations idle or q
working,
Mines In the region today order,
"a $50 emptiss Of which sol are
s1r the Monongah division. 3. 4
= o. r. RI 2ss on the Monongahela
railway IN West Virginia, but the
western Maryland mines have moi
- requested any cars.
uneonsigned Apads IN the Fair.
mont region today total 4Ss Of
which 33i are On tie B. & Q. r
Z OF which II are coke; 81 or