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34 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
JUTTE INTERESTS TO ENTER
THE MEDITERRANEAN TRADE.
C. Jutte & Co. and their allied interests, including
the Marine Coal Co. of Pittsburgh, are
arranging to broaden their foreign markets beyond
those already held in South America and to
include the countries skirting the Mediterranean.
These interests have already taken an important
South American trade from the English and German
producers. The modern wharfage facilities
of these Pittsburgh interests at New Orleans were
completed within the past week. The devices
have a loading capacity of 5,000 tons in 20 hours,
or sufficient to load the heaviest carrier which
docks there within 36 hours.
Mr. B. S. Hammill, general sales manager of
the Marine Coal Co., had as his guests in Pittsburgh
July 6, Mr. John Harrison of Harrison, Tidswell
& Co., 66 Mark Lane, London, and Mr. J. C.
Jung of Jung & Sons Co., New Orleans, the latter
being the foreign, coastwise and planters' agents
along the gulf for the Pittsburgh concern. The
conference dealt with the development of the
southern and foreign trade. The visitors went
through the modern Pike mine at Uniontown. At
this mine there is a straight-away entry stretch
of two miles of double track, laid with 60-pound
steel rails. Four-ton Jeffrey electric locomotives
are used, drawing upward of SO three-ton pit cars.
A new double steel tipple is being erected at the
plant.
NEW SCREEN LAW IN ARKANSAS.
The Arkansas legislature recently passed a bill
providing that all coal mined must be weighed
before it is screened. The following is the text
of the law:
"Section 1. It shall be unlawful tor any mine
owner, lessee or operator of coal mines in the
state, employing miners at bushel or ton rates, or
other quantity, to pass the output of coal mined
by said miners over any screen or any other device
which shall take any part of the value thereof
before the same shall have been weighed and duly
credited to the employe sending the same to the
surface, and accounted for at the legal rate of
weights as fixed by the laws of Arkansas; and no
employe within the meaning of this article shall
be deemed to have waived any right accruing to
him under this section by any contract he may
make contrary to the provisions thereof. And
any provision, contract or agreement between mine
owners, lessees or operators thereof, and the miners
employed therein, whereby the provisions of
this article are waived, modified or annulled, shall
be void and of no effect, and the coal sent to the
surface shall be accepted or rejected; and if ac­
cepted, shall be weighed in accordance with the
provisions of this article, and right of action shall
not be invalidated by reason of any contract or
agreement; and any owner, agent, lessee or operator
of any coal mine in this state who shall knowingly
violate any of the provisions of this section
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of
not less than $200 nor more than $500 for each
offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail for
a period of not less than sixty days nor more than
six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment;
proceedings to be instituted in any court
having competent jurisdiction, each day's operation
of any mine in violation of this act to constitute
a separate and distinct offense.
"Sec. 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed. This act to take
effect and be in force from and after April 1, 1906."
LAKE PORT QUOTATIONS.
The coal companies handling coal for the lake
trade have issued a list of contract prices under
which business will be accepted at present for the
remainder of the mining year which ends April 1,
1906. These contract prices call for an advance
September 1 of 15 to 25 cents a ton over those
prevailing at present on domestic coals. The new
circular prices are as follows:
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