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