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Through the consolidation of the Ingersoll-Sergeant
and Rand Drill companies, Mr. C. Bollinger,
Jr.. who for the past four years has been the
Pittsburgh manager of the Ingersoll-Sergeant Co.,
becomes manager of the Pittsburgh branch of the
Ingersoll-Rand Co. For 15 years Mr, Bollinger
was associated with the Ingersoll-Sergeant Co.
in New York in important capacities. His management
is bound to maice the reorganized company
a more important factor in the coal trade.
Mr. F. C. Weber, who has been Pittsburgh manager
of the Rand Drill Co., has gone to the New
York offices of the new company. Mr. A. S. Uhler
and others of Mr. Weber's staff remain here and
the office also carries Mr. Bollinger's former associates,
including Mr. A. L. Dixon, who is well
known in the commercial territory of this office
as its coal mine engineer.
President John E. Shaw, of uie Lake Erie and
Ohio River Ship Canal Co.. is preparing to make
a trip to Erie, accompanied by the directors of the
< ompany, to repay the visit of prominent business
men of Erie, who desire that their city lie made
the lake terminus of the proposed canal. Recently
additional surveyors have been at work on
the route of the proposed canal and it is hoped
to complete the survey before the coid weather
sets in.
Mr. W. W. Ferguson, superintendent tor the
Fairmont Coal Co. at Beechwood. W. va., will go
to Berryburg October 1 to take charge of the
new property of fhe Consolidated Coal uo. there.
He will move his family there shortly. Mr. Ferguson
is one of the most popular and experienced
superintendents in that region.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 45
CIellan Co. has its headquarters at Wyoming, and
engineers from that place making a survey of the
Evans property.
Rev. J. W. Gorrell has resigned the pastorate of
the First Christian church in Lisbon, 0., to devote
his attention to some coal lands in Jefferson
and Belmont counties and in West Virginia. He
assumed his pastorate April 1.
Mr. Thomas H. Wells, a pioneer coal and iron
operator at Youngstown, O., is dead. He was a
member of the engineering corps which was in
charge of the first section of the Pennsylvania
railroad.
Mr. Austin King, superintendent of the Calumet
plant of the H. C. Frick Coke Co., has been
given charge of the two Hecla plants also. The
Heclas are now operated by the H. C. Frick Coke
Co.
Mr. J. C. Sproull of Leechburg, Pa., was in
Pittsburgh recently on business in relation to an
important coal development project in Western
Pennsylvania in which he is interested.
Mr. Tracy W. Guthrie, general manager of the
Continental Coal Co., Columbus, O., before its
absorption by the Sunday Creek Coal Co., will
shortly re-enter the coal business.
Mr. Andrew P. Swanstrom has accepted the position
of city agent for the Ohio Coal Co., in St.
Paul.
The report of the chief inspector of mines of
India for 1904 states that at present coal cutting
Mr. Robert W. Haseltine, state mine inspector machines are used at only two collieries in India.
of Ohio from 18SS to 1900, died suddenly Septem- Nearly all the coal is won by the bord-and-pillar
ber 6 at a hotel in Yellowstone Park, where he system (that is, by cutting the seams into pillars
had gone in the hope of recuperating his health. by driving galleries). The pillars are seldom ex­
He was about 60 years old. After his retirement tracted. The cheapness of Indian labor, com­
from official life, Mr. Haseltine followed the propared with European and American, has probably
fession of mining engineer.
prevented enterprise in the use of machines being
shown in India. However, when the efficiency
Mr. William H. Hugus has tendered his resig­ of the Indian miner is considered in comparison
nation to the H. C. Frick Coke Co. as superintend­ with that of the English miner, there would apent
of the Davidson works, one of the largest pear to be scope for the use of machines. The na­
plants in the world. The resignation is to take tive miners have shown themselves capable of
effect Febuary 1, 1906. Mr. Hugus has been with managing the machines; if a doubt remains as to
the H. C. Frick Coke Co. for many years.
a reduction in the cost per ton of machine-cut coal,
there can be no question (as regards the great
Mr. Charles Merrick, of Avoca, Pa., will be the economy of time) in favor of the machines. With
superintendent for the McCIellan Coal Co., at the those now in use, a gallery could be driven at
old Evans colliery near Hazleton, Pa. The Mc­ least twice as far in a given time as by hand.