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THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
tion in the land. Children brought up in this
atmosphere of reverence and patriotism will forget
the land of their father's birth and become
thorough Americans, and join with all patriotic
citizens in the proud acclaim, "Breathes there a
man with soul so dead who never to himself hath
said. This is my own, my native land." This is
the duty we owe to coming generations, but the
duties of the present are upon us also.
Let us do our duty as citizens by filling the
executive offices of tne government, our legisla-
BACK AGAIN.
Mr. W. Iv. Field, vioe president and treasurer of the New-
Pittsburgh Coal Co., has been up northwest where frostbites
are in sight, and incidentally gathered in some good
round contracts. When he got back to Columbus headquarters
it is said that the first thing he did was to get
into a conference with Mr. II. R. Beeson, the secretary
and auditor of the company, and Cartoonist Ireland, with
the above result. Back again ! Co'se. and we're all
suttenly glad to meet you wunst mo', ohl sport.
tive bodies and the courts with our ablest and
most patriotic men, and then give them our
hearty suport. Let us criticise less and praise
more. A patriot cannot be an oppressor, whether
he be a capitalist or a laborer.
Let us cultivate civic, state and national pride.
We have reason to be very proud of our beloved
country. Let us show it in our acts, words and
deeds.
CONTRACTS PLACED IN CONNECTION
WITH IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT.
The W. G. Wilkins Co., civil and mining engineers,
Pittsburgh, has just placed contracts, covering
some important development enterprises in
West Virginia and Pennsylvania. For a 200 coke
oven plant at the mines of the Cascade Coal &
Coke Co., at Tyler, Clearfield county, Pa., the contract
was awarded to John R. Bennett of Fairmont.
W. Va.. and a contract for 1.000,000 coke
oven brick to be used at the same plant was given
to the Reese-Hammond Co. of Bolivar, Pa. The
coal washing plant for the Cascade Co., with capacity
of 750 tons a day, will be installed by Heyl &
Patterson Co., Pittsburgh. The Wilkins Co. has
also awarded contracts for 60 miners' houses for
the i\ew River & Pocahontas Consolidated Coal &
Coke Co. to be erected at the latter's new property,
Dry Fork, McDonald county, W. Va., by
Stevenson & Adams of Pittsburgh. Reagen &
Reagen of Uniontown were awarded the contract
for 160 coke ovens to be erected at the new works
of the Struthers Coal & Coke Co. near New Salem,
Pa. The above contracts aggregate aoout ^z95,-
000. The operations of the Strutners company
are to be of the most modern and economical
character, mine equipment and coking plant combined
involving an expenditure of upwards of
$300,000.
Consul Mahin, of Nottingham, reports the discovery
in England of new coal deposits. He says
that recent discoveries in that neighborhood have
added materially to the known quantity of coal
underlying British soil. Experimental sinking
operations have added another colliery to the
large number now being worked in that county.
The new deposit, reached at a depth of 544 yards,
now employs 240 men and is expected ere long
to yield 4,000 tons a day. In the near-by county
of Stafford, after several years of expensive and
apparently useless prospecting, a rich deposit has
been discovered and is now being developed which,
it is calculated, will yield about 4,000,000 tons of
good coal. The discovery is sufficiently important
to promise great possibilities for that district
and has led to railway extensions into localities
where transportation facilities were very meager.
There are indications that a valuable field of
ironstone lies at a greater depth than the coal
seam. Expert estimates that British coal supplies
will not be exhausted for several hundred
years appear to be fully sustained by deposits in
those parts.
The Reading's coal tonnage for September is
estimated at 5,000,000.