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46 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
B CONSTRUCTION and DEVELOPMENT. «
The Reading Coal Co. has acquired large coal
docks at Milwaukee and will install an improved
coal handling plant. It is announced that $500,-
O00 was the purchase price. The docks purchased
have been used by the company about
twenty years and are said, to be among the best
in the northwest. Within recent years the Reading
has greatly increased its business in that section,
and with its own docks a greater increase
will be sought.
The financing of the Washington County Coal
Co. and its underlying railroad company, known
as the Pittsburgh & Cross Creek, has been completed
and the work of developing the coal in the
11 farms in Jefferson and Cross Creek townships,
Washington county, will start in the near future.
The conipany has $250,000 capital stock.
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Preparations are being made by the Delaware &
Hudson Co. to increase the size of its coal storage
plant at Honesdale, Pa., which now holds a million
and a half tons of coal. The Erie Co. is said
to be seeking a location in that section where
a million to a million and a half tons can be
stored.
The Mend's Gap Coal & Coke Co., of Cumberland
county, Tenn., win develop a tract of 3,000
acres of coal land at Waldensia. H. L. Badham,
of Birmingham, Ala., is president of the conipany.
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.
contemplates the erection of a new coal storage
plant at New Bedford, Mass., to take the place of
the plant at present in use at that point.
The Rocks Coal & Coke Co., of Uniontown, Pa.,
has decided to add 30 ovens to its plant in Redstone
township, which now consists of 50 ovens. The promoters of the Miners' hospital at Spangler,
Pa., for which Governor Pennypacker vetoed
The Vesta Coal Co. proposes to erect a hospital an appropriation of $10,000, have decided to go
at its mines at California, Pa., to give early and
efficient aid to men injured in their employ.
James A. Shannon and Robert and Isaac Hunt
have bought a tract of coking coal near Uniontown,
Pa., and will erect 50 ovens at once.
The Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Co.. of Seattle,
Wash., is about to spend $200,000 in improving its The Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co. is sending out
different plants.
a rock drill leaflet auxiliary to its rock drill catalogue
No. 43. The leaflet presents brief descrip­
The Koala Mfg. Co. is about to begin the erection
of a $40,000 briquette fuel factory at Bellingham,
Wash.
The retail coal dealers at Champaign and Urbana,
111., recently formed an organization to be
known as the Champaign and Urbana Coal Dealers'
Association, with headquarters at Champaign.
The officers of the association are president, C. D.
Rourke, of Hunter & Rourke Lumber & Coal Co.,
Urbana; vice-president. John B. Weeks, manager
of the Alexander Lumber Co., Champaign; secretary
and treasurer, J. A. Reeves, Champaign.
The Cherokee Fuel Co. has been incorporated
at Kansas City, Mo., to market the product of six
of the large coal companies of the Cherokee district
of Kansas.
The Farmers Gin, Grain & Fuel Co. has been
incorporated at Sentinel, Okla., with a capital of
$10,000.
Walker Bros, have purchased the coal business
at Douglas, Neb., of the Hopkins-Goodell Co.
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M. I mm has purchased the lumber and coal
business of H. F. Noyes, at Dresden, Kas.
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Arnold & Sigler have sold their coal and wood
business at Leon, la., to Wright & Little.
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L. W. Gamble has purchased the coal business
of H. L. Auman at Nevada, Mo.
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S. B. Hamilton has sold his fuel business at
Clio, la., to C. P. Lathrop.
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C. B. Childs has engaged in the coal business
at Kansas City, Mo.
ahead with the erection of the building. The cost
will be met by the coal operators, the miners and
other residents of Spangler and vicinity. It is
estimated that the building will represent an outlay
of $15,000. The hospital will be located on
the outskirts of the town.
tions of the company's various drills and excavating
and quarrying machinery, together with
illustrations of their operation.