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32 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
the people who participate in the Chicago meeting<br />
will not participate in the Indianapolis joint conference.<br />
Under these conditions, whicli the editor<br />
and those he has been quoting on tbe subject<br />
know to be true, how would it be possible for the<br />
Chicago meeting to issue iron-clad instructions that<br />
would be binding on anyone at the Indianapolis<br />
meeting? And speaking of iron-clad instructions,<br />
who has an opportunity to better understand the<br />
follies of sending delegates to a joint conference<br />
under instructions, than the men who called the<br />
Chicago meeting?<br />
"In conclusion I desire to state that the Chicago<br />
meeting was not called for the purpose of <strong>org</strong>anizing<br />
a fight on the United Mine Workers, nor for<br />
the purpose of demanding a reduction at the next<br />
joint conference to be held in Indianapolis, and<br />
while the promoters of the Chicago meeting would<br />
be very much pleased to see the operators of the<br />
Pittsburgh district and all other bituminous districts<br />
represented at said meeting, they recognize<br />
the right of any district to refuse to participate.<br />
But in justice to ourselves, we feel that when the<br />
operators of any district decide to refuse the<br />
invitation to attend, and feel called upon to assign<br />
a reason therefor, that they should assign the real<br />
reason and not cloud the issue by making it appear<br />
that said meeting is called for a purpose other<br />
than that stated in the call itself.<br />
"All this strike talk growing out of tiie proposed<br />
Chicago meeting reminds me of the dark<br />
ages a few years ago when it was the custom for<br />
the newspapers of the country to predict a miners'<br />
strike every time they heard of a miners' meeting<br />
being called. But at the present enlightened age<br />
I hardly expected a call for a meeting of<br />
operators who are already <strong>org</strong>anized into associations<br />
and working under trade agreements with<br />
the miners' union to cause such a commotion in<br />
the newspaper world as we have been treated to<br />
as a result of the call for the Chicago meeting.<br />
"Hoping the Chicago meeting will be judged by<br />
what it does and not by what people say about it,<br />
I remain,<br />
"Yours for a 'Square Deal,'<br />
"JOHN P. REESE."<br />
Additional big coal land deals involving valuable<br />
territory in the Pottsville, Pa., region have just<br />
been made. Twelve tracts have just passed from<br />
the Hazleton Coal Co. to the Lehigh Valley Coal<br />
Co. The Guinea Hill and York Farm tracts,<br />
bordering on Pottsville. are involved in tbe deals,<br />
together with tracts in Kline township, Schuylkill<br />
county; Hazle township, Luzerne county; Banks<br />
township, Carbon county; Mount Carmel township,<br />
Northumberland county; Conyngham township.<br />
Columbia county, and several other adjoining districts.<br />
ANTHRACITE <strong>COAL</strong> SHIPMENTS.<br />
Tiie shipments of anthracite coal by the various<br />
companies for the month of September were as<br />
follows:<br />
Companies. 1905.<br />
Philadelphia & Reading 1,067,916<br />
Lehigh Valley ' 861,916<br />
Jersey Central 709,700<br />
Delaware, Lackawanna & West. 772,506<br />
Delaware & Hudson 422,789<br />
Pennsylvania R. R 325,414<br />
Erie 568,799<br />
New York, Ontario & Western 218,980<br />
Delaware. Susq. & SchuylKill. 134,599<br />
1904.<br />
733,838<br />
649,092<br />
55^,740<br />
673,564<br />
290,609<br />
339,094<br />
405,915<br />
185,472<br />
137,276<br />
Totals 5,082,232 3,967,600<br />
The shipments of anthracite coal by months for<br />
four years have been as follows:<br />
Month. 1902.<br />
January, 4,538,138<br />
February, 3,741,253<br />
March, 3,818,767<br />
April, 4,924,830<br />
May. 1,708,892<br />
June. 92,203<br />
July. 259,079<br />
August, 321,774<br />
September, 445,883<br />
October, 1,276,257<br />
November 4,984,384<br />
December 5,099,451<br />
1903.<br />
5.964,950<br />
5.070,608<br />
5,211,540<br />
5,044,998<br />
5,156.449<br />
5,436,497<br />
5,377,495<br />
5,169,402<br />
4,6b4,444<br />
3,925,642<br />
4,091,147<br />
4,2o9,748<br />
1904.<br />
4,134,245<br />
4,326,269<br />
4,375,033<br />
5,407,786<br />
5,285,079<br />
5,728,795<br />
4,623,527<br />
4.331,854<br />
3,967,600<br />
5,131,542<br />
5,419,878<br />
5,063.144<br />
1905.<br />
4,408,578<br />
3,922,601<br />
5,258,567<br />
5,278,041<br />
6,005,158<br />
5,844,052<br />
4,546,000<br />
5,041,838<br />
5,082,232<br />
Total, 31,210,911 59,362,830 57,493,522 45.387,067<br />
Ton/nage for nine months: 1902, 19.855,819;<br />
1903. 47,086,293; 1904, 42.1S0.1J 1905, 45,387,067.<br />
Very Low Fares to San Francisco and Los Angeles<br />
and Return Via Pennsylvania Lines.<br />
October 16th to 20th. inclusive, excursion tickets<br />
to San Francisco and Los Angeles, account Women's<br />
Christian Temperance Union Convention,<br />
will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines from all ticket<br />
stations. For full information regarding fares,<br />
routes, time of trains, etc., apply to Local Ticket<br />
Agent of those lines, or to J. K. Dillon, District<br />
Passenger Agent, 515 Park building, Pittsburgh.<br />
The commission to establish miners' homes in<br />
Pennsylvania, at a meeting recently at the state<br />
department of mines at Harrisburg, Pa., formulated<br />
a plan by which it is expected at least two<br />
such homes can be established. The cost of erecting<br />
and maintaining these shall be borne jointly<br />
by the operators and miners and measures have<br />
been taken for the collection of money from each