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46 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Plans were laid at a largely-attended meeting in
Louisville on July 24 to organize the Kentucky
and Tennessee Retail Coal Dealers' Association.
Delegates representing almost every retail coal
organization in the two states attended the meet
ing. A temporary organization was effected and
committees appointed to arrange the details for a
permanent organization.
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The Tabor Coal & Supply Co. has been incorporated
at Chicago with a capital of $22,500, to do
a general fuel contracting business.
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The Lewiston Fuel & Ice Co. has been succeeded
in business in Lewiston, Ida., by the Lewiston
Fuel & Transfer Co.
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The Richmond Coal Co., of Richmond, Mo., was
declared exempt from the receivership of the
Devlin estate.
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H. Nesbit, of Atchison, Kas., has been made
secretary of the Mid-State Coal Dealers' Association.
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Henry W. Krone has sold his coal, brick and
lumber business at Stockton, la., to Bannick &
Wilson.
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Z. Waterman has been succeeded in business at
Crete, Neb., by the Waterman Lumber & Coal Co.
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Frank McWilliams has sold his coal business at
Humeston, la., to the Hawkeye Lumber Co.
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The Grand View Coal Co. has been incorporated
at Palisade, Colo., with a capital of $30,000.
The Canon City Fuel Co. has been incorporated
at Pueblo, Colo., with a capital of $5,000.
The South and West system, a reorganization of
the old "Three C" line, which was started about
15 years ago with the intention of affording a
system, which would connect the cities of Chicago,
Cincinnati and Charleston, has been placed in the
hands of a new company for the purpose of affording
an outlet for the coal and other resources of
southwest Virginia and east Tennessee to the Atlantic
ocean. So far the road has been constructed
and in operation a distance of about 68
miles southwest of Johnson City.
A new coal field in the Indian Creek region near
Connellsville, Pa., is about to be opened. The
drilling is being done in fulfillment of promises
by C. H. Brooks, A. G. C. Sherbondy and George
W. Campbell, who have under option 25,000 acres,
and should the tests result as they hope a standard
railroad will be built up Indian creek from
the B. & O, which crosses the creek at its junction
with the Youghiogheny.
E. W. Parker of the United States geological
survey, with assistants J. W. Grove and W. J.
Von Borries, is preparing to collect samples of
coal from the Ohio fields for testing purposes in
the geological survey coal testing plant on the
grounds of the Louisiana Purchase exposition
grounds at St. L,ouis. Messrs. Grove and Von
Borries are now in Jackson county and trom there
will go to the Perry and Jefferson county coal
fields.
Sakhalin, the Russian island recently taken
possession of by the Japanese, has long been used
by Russia as a penal colony. Its population is
about 40,000, of which more than half are convicts
and about one-tenth aborigines. It produces
a little coal but could be made to yield much
more as the deposits are known to be of considerable
extent.
William Griffiths, of West Pittston, Pa., one of
the best known mining engineers in the country,
is on his way to Southwest Alaska, where he will
explore the Matanuska coal fields, preliminary to
their being developed by a number of eastern capitalists
who have acquired the territory. It is
said that the Matanuska coal fields comprise an
extensive bed of bituminous coal of. which little
is known.
It is authoritatively stated in London that the
reported purchase of Welsh coal fields exclusively
by a German syndicate is inaccurate. It is announced
that negotiations are in progress for the
purchase of the extensive Whitworth estate in
South Wales, but the purchasing company, it is
stated, will be an international one, in which probably
some Germans will be interested.
A Holstein bull owned by F. D. Willerton of
Washington county. Pa., fell through the ground
into an abandoned coal mine, and for 48 days
had no food, but lived on the water in a small
stream in the mine. The bull weighed 1,800
pounds prior to its disappearance, and upon being
weighed after its rescue it had lost 900 pounds.
The Animal will live.
The Pocahontas Collieries Co. has declared the
regular quarterly dividend of 1% per cent, on the
preferred stock.