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4S THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
« CONSTRUCTION and DEVELOPMENT. K
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton and Pere
Marquette system is announced by President Zimmerman
to have plans complete for a through line.
Chicago to Charleston, S. C. with a fleet on the
Great Lakes linking with its lines in the northwest.
Work has been undertaken on the construction
of a bridge from Ashland to Ironton. A railroad
125 miles long into Kentucky, where they
have acquired 35(1,000 acres of coal lands, will be
built and coke ovens and other development work
carried out. The output of these mines is to
be from two and a half to three million tons a
year. Work on improving the coal and ore docks
at Toledo is under way and the company is building
a fleet for carrying coal and ore on the Great
Lakes.
Retail coal dealers from business centers in the
United States and Canada will meet in Buffalo
September 21 and 22, in a joint convention held
for the purpose of amalgamating the present
National Council of Coal Dealers and the National
Anthracite Merchants' Association. The convention
is planned to have an important effect on
the retail coal trade. The formation of an information
bureau taking in all retail dealers is
proposed and will be acted on. The new organization
promoters claim it will not enterfere with existing
state or independent associations.
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Frank H. Johnston, an officer in the People's
Coal & Wood Co. at New Britain, Conn., has
brought suit for appointment of a receiver for
the company. The plaintiff opposed the action of
All the mines of the Ohio & Pennsylvania Coal the other stockholders in selling out the business
Co. in Ohio are to be fitted with electrical arrange­ to a creditor, who other stockholders state agreed
ments. Sixteen new coal pockets are to be
erected at the mines of the conipany at Saline­
to settle all legitimate claims against the conipany.
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ville. Facilities are to be afforded for the storage The McAlester Fuel Co.. of South McAlester. I.
of coal for twenty additional engines at Saline­ T., has absorbed the Midland Valley Coal Co., of
ville.
Fort Smith, Ark. The offices will be kept in
South McAlester and J. G. Puterbaugh will be
After President Sturgess of Scranton, and other general sales agent.
officers of the Pine Hill Coal Co. visited the scene
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of the recent $150,000 fire at the Pine Hill colliery. The merchants of Burton, Kas., are demanding
near Pottsville. a few days ago. it was announced the same rate on Wyoming coal that is made to
that the conipany will build a new modern breaker Wichita, Kas. Wichita is 30 miles further from
and make other improvements, which will entail Wyoming and gets a rate of $4, while Burton pays
a cost of a half million dollars.
$4.50.
The Joseph Walton Coal Co. will shortly adverAllen
& Barrett, dealers at Plymouth, Mich., have
tise for bids on a coal float, which will be the first dissolved partnership. The Michigan Mfg. &
of its kind at Louisville, Ky.. and one of the largest Lumber Co., of Holley, will continue the business,
ever built for river service there. The proposed Mr. Barrett representing that concern.
float will be more than twenty-six feet wide and
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150 feet long and will have a hopper near one end. The West Kentucky Coal Co.. Paducah, Ky., recently'
was awarded the contract for supplying
The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie railroad interests coal for the city lighting plant. This company
are understood to be nearly ready with the plans will supply coal at $1.15 per ton.
on which contracts will be awarded for extension
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of the company's lines into the valuable unde­ J. D. Hale and John Scheiman. of Decatur, Ind.,
veloped coal property of Greene county. Pa. have purchased the coal yards at that point belonging
to the City Trucking Co. The yards will be
The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., it stocked for the winter demand.
is said, is preparing to erect a new breaker at the
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Bear Valley colliery at Shamokin, Pa. There are A meeting of the coal dealers in the vicinity of
two shafts at the colliery and the breaker now in New Ulm, Minn., was recently held at Mankato,
use is too small to handle the output.
Minn., for the purpose of discussing the demurrage
laws and freight rates.
Bids are being taken by the W. G. Wilkins Co.
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for 60 houses for the Pocahontas & New River C. C. Jordan, a coal dealer of St. Louis, Mo., was
Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. at Dryford Creek. recently fined $50 for delivering two shortweight
W. Va.
loads of coal to a customer.