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46 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
• ••«! PERSONAL. ft I
Mr. J. T. M. Stoneroad, recretary and treasurer
of the Carnegie Copl Co., Carnegie, Pa., is away
for a month's hunting in Montana.
Dr. R. W. Ells, of the geological survey department
of Canada, has returned from Graham island.
of the Queen Charlotte gioup. where he went last
spring to examine and report on the coal measures
of that island. before going back to Ottawa be
Mr. B. S. Abbott of Weir City, Kas.. has purchased
a tract of coal land lying just north of
Pittsburg. Kas.
will again visit the Quilchena and Nicola districts,
where he last year examined the coal measures,
and proceed thence to the Tulameen, Similkameen
and Okanagan districts of British Colum­
Mr. John E. Berwind, of the Berwind
bia, in each of which coal is already being prospected,
or indications of its occurrence have been
found.
: White Coal
Mining Co., is back after spending the summer
abroad.
Mr. John W. Peale of Peale. Peacock & Kerr,
New York, is in Maine on a business and vacation
trip.
Mr. John J. Coyne, formerly with W. K. Niver
& Co., at Baltimore, has accepted a position with
Haddock. Blanchard & Co., New York, as assistant
to G. W. Seiler, sales agent. Mr. Coyne has been
identified with the coal trade for the past five
years, serving first for three years with the Continental
Coal Co. of Baltimore, and then with W. K.
Niver & Co. as salesman in the Maryland and
southern Pennsylvania trade.
Capt. John W. Mahan, prominently connected
with coal mining aT Charleston, W. Va., died recently
in that city after an illness of several weeks.
He was at the head of the Mahan Lumber Co. and
the Hickory Camp Coal Co. on Paint Creek, near
Charleston. He formerly lived in Washington,
D. C.
Mr. Alexander Cunninghame. president of the
Luhrig Coal Co.. Cincinnati, 0.. and general manager
of the Arkansas Anthracite Coal Co.. landed
in New York after his European trip a week ago.
After a short stay in the east he returned to his
headquarters.
Mr. W. A. Swan has purchased the property of
the Mohawk Coal Co., of Pittsburg, Kas.
Mr. D. C. Botting has passed the examination for
state coal mine inspector of the state of Washington.
Crab Orchard Improvement Co., Charleston, W.
Va.; capital, $1,000,000; to develop coal on the
Piney Creek branch of the C. & O. R. R.; incorporators,
Charles J. Wittenburg of New York; S.
Mr. Joseph Bailey of DuBois. Pa., has been appointed
by the governor delegate for Pennsylvania
M. Miller of Philipsburg, Pa.; and George E.
to the next annual convention of the American
Price, R. P. Flournoy and J. Edmund Price of
Mining Congress to be held at El Paso, Tex., No­
Charleston. W. Va.
vember 14-18th. Mr. Bailey is general superin­
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tendent of the Erie Eailroad Co.'s bituminous coal Mannington Coal & Coke Co., Cumberland, Md.;
interests in Pennsylvania and Ohio, with head­ to operate in Kentucky; capital, $100,000; incorquarters
at DuBois.
porators, William B. Redgrave, Andrew Hogg, John
B. Williams, William G. Hiller. Harry L. Beverly,
Mr. George B. Hardesty, who for several years
Mortimer C. Robinson, Robert Duncan. Developed
has been superintendent of the Honey Brook divi­
lands in Kentucky.
sion of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Co., of
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Wilkesbarre, Pa., has tendered his resignation and
Federal Coal & Iron Co., Denver, Colo.; capital,
will become identified with the Philadelphia &
$500,000; officers and directors, James A. Harris,
Reading Coal & Iron Co. as superintendent of the
Joseph R. Banks, Henry E. Long, J. W. Johnson,
Pottsville division, with headquarters at Pottsville.
Clarence E. Stephens, John P. Steele, Solomon
Schwader, H. W. Tobridge and Henry V. Johnson.
Queen City Coal Co., Cincinnati, O.; authorized
capital, $50,000; incorporators, Melvin E. Lynn,
James A. Reilly. T. Newton Jones, William B.
Bassett and John R. Griffiths.
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Birch Run Coal & Coke Co., New York; capital,
$100,000; directors, George W. Turley and Edgar
W. Turley of Irvona, Pa.; Isaac Myers and Alfred
Jacobs of New York.
Southern Dispatch Coal Co., Uniontown, Ky.;
capital, $50,000; incorporators, George S. Parker,
Thomas L. Dehorty, Samuel Harred. John Thorn,
James L. Gavin.
Midland Valley Coal Co.. Ft. Smith, Ark.; capi-