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50 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
WESTERN <strong>COAL</strong> DEALERS OBTAIN<br />
CONCESSIONS FROM RAILROADS.<br />
The Iowa-Nebraska Coal Dealers' Association has<br />
come to an agreement with the railroads with<br />
which it has been negotiating for several months.<br />
Two important concessions have been made by the<br />
roads, and President C. H. Chisam, speaking for<br />
the members of the association, announces that<br />
they are satisfactory. He says there will be no<br />
effort by the dealers to secure legislation on reciprocal<br />
demurrage, present arrangements being entirely<br />
satisfactory. One of the points conceded<br />
by the railroad companies is a reduction in the<br />
weighing fee at destination of coal shipments from<br />
$2 to $1 a car, together with the acceptance of<br />
weights at delivery as the basis of freight charges.<br />
The other victory won by the coal men has reference<br />
to demurrage charges for cargoes which they<br />
fail to unload within 24 hours after delivery. In<br />
future, whenever the demurrage is questioned for<br />
any reason, a board of arbitration will pass upon<br />
it before payment is made.<br />
Heretofore the dealers have always paid demurrage<br />
charges first, and then, if there was cause<br />
for complaint, would file a claim for the return of<br />
the money paid. Hereafter they will not be required<br />
to pay until the board of arbitration decides<br />
that the charge is just. This board will comprise<br />
the manager of the Western Car Service Association,<br />
acting for the railroads, and a man chosen<br />
by the coal dealers. Its conclusions will be mutually<br />
binding. Lumber men are included in this<br />
arrangement. The advantage to coal dealers in<br />
basing freight charges on the weight of a cargo<br />
at its destination is that it does not compel them<br />
to pay transportation rates on what may be lost<br />
in shipment. It often happens that a car of coal<br />
loaded at the mine will tip the scales at 83,000 or<br />
84,000 pounds, but when it is billed the weight<br />
will have shrunk to 80,000 pounds or less. The<br />
old practice was to charge freight on the mine<br />
weight, regardless of the well known fact that coal<br />
cargoes frequently lose in transit from theft and<br />
other causes. Under the new plan the weight of<br />
a carload at the end of its shipment will be taken<br />
as prima facie evidence of the amount of coal it<br />
contains, and the dealer will pay freight in accordance<br />
with it. The only unsettled matter is the<br />
value of the shrinkage in transit. The dealer must<br />
pay for all the coal that leaves the mine, and the<br />
railroads are held responsible for Iailure to deliver<br />
full weights. It will be an easy matter to determine<br />
claims under the system agreed upon, and it<br />
is believed the roads will handle coal more carefully<br />
than before. Where the benefit of the new<br />
demurrage rule conies in is in forcing the railroad<br />
companies to make deliveries regularly or losing<br />
the use of cars till they can be unloaded conveniently<br />
to the dealer. Should one car a day be ship<br />
ped for a week, and they be held up en route so<br />
that all reach the consignee at the same time, he<br />
will not be called on to unload all within 24 hours<br />
or pay for the cars held, but will be allowed extra<br />
time, according to the number of cars.<br />
RECENT <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE PATENTS.<br />
The following recently granted patents of interest<br />
to the coal trade, are reported expressly for<br />
THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN b.v J. M. Nesbit, patent<br />
attorney. Park building, Pittsburgh, Pa., from<br />
whom printed copies may be procured for 15 cents<br />
each:<br />
Mine water car, W. J. Richards. Rockwood,<br />
Tenn.; 787,112.<br />
Miner's dumping car, Julia Kerst, Springfield,<br />
111.; 789,189.<br />
Mine-curtain raiser, G. W. Manlove, Cleveland;<br />
787,200.<br />
Chain and cutter-carrying device for mining<br />
machines, T. G. Aultman. Fairmont, W. Va., assignor<br />
to Joseph Jeffrey, Columbus, Ohio; 787,551.<br />
Car-haul, A. M. Acklin. Pittsburgh, assignor to<br />
Heyl & Patterson, Inc., same place; 787,605.<br />
Miner's lamp, Ferdinand Kich, West Hazleton,<br />
Pa.; 787,678.<br />
Process of producing compressed coke, A. D.<br />
Shrewsbury, Washington, D. C; 788,558.<br />
Mining drill, F. W. Olcott, U. S. Navy, assignor<br />
to H, F. Olcott. Kingston, N. Y.; 788,593.<br />
Miner's pick, W. W. Hoover, Penfield, Pa.; Y88,-<br />
719.<br />
Cable-haul, J. L. Wagner, Fairmont, W. Va.;<br />
788,861.<br />
Cribbing, F. H. Brenton and John Struthers,<br />
Pittston, Pa., 789,140. Cribbing, same; 789,183.<br />
Device for cleaning coal breakers, J. L. Miller,<br />
Pittsburgh, assignor to Heyl & Patterson, Inc.,<br />
same place; 789,167.<br />
Coal chute. D. S. Post, Painesville, Ohio, assignor<br />
to H. A. Post, same place; 789,381.<br />
Sunday in Wheeling.<br />
Leave Pittsburgh in the morning; return in the<br />
evening, over Pennsylvania Lines. 8.20 a. m. train<br />
Central time from Pittsburgh Union Station has<br />
parlor car. Returning parlor car train leaves<br />
Wheeling 2.55 p. m.. arrives Pittsburgh 5.05 p. m.<br />
Homeseekers Excursions<br />
Via the Missouri Pacific Ry. to points in Missouri,<br />
Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Old and New<br />
Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Colorado and Utah, at<br />
very low rates. Tickets sold on first and third<br />
Tuesdays of each month. For information address<br />
John R. James, Centra] Passenger Agent, 315<br />
Bessemer building, Pittsburgh, Pa.