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32 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
Oregon 91.144 111,540 I. 20,396 and visual evidence that was overwhelming.<br />
fenna. (bitu-<br />
Chairman Burton, in an address, stated that if the<br />
minous 103,117,178 97,916,733 D.5,200,445 people of the Ohio valley went properly to work<br />
Tennessee 4,798,004 4,782,302 D. 15,702 they would be able to obtain from the government<br />
Texas<br />
926,759 1,072,194 I. 145,435 any amount needed to complete the work, even if<br />
Utah<br />
1,681,409 1,491,607 D. 189,802 the sum were to aggregate $60,000,000. Acting on<br />
Virginia<br />
3,451,307 3,576,092 I. 124,785 this suggestion a conference was held between the<br />
Washington .. 3,193,273 3,135,757 D. 57,516 members of the committee and the officers of the<br />
West Virginia . 29,337,241 32,332,385 1.2,995,144 Ohio Valley Improvement Association, who accom<br />
Wyoming 4,635,293 5,177,381 I. 542,088 panied the party, and the following resolution was<br />
adopted: "That, for the purpose of inducing the<br />
Total bitum's.282,749,348 278,040,244 a4,709,104 government to adopt a more liberal policy for the<br />
Penna. anth'te 74,607,068 73,156,709 ol,450,359 improvement of the waterways of the country, the<br />
Ohio Valley Improvement Association be requested<br />
Grand total. . .357,356,416 351,196,953 a6,159,463 to invite, within 30 days, one representative from<br />
every waterway improvement association in the<br />
a Net decrease.<br />
country and such other persons as it may deem<br />
The growth of the coal mining industry during<br />
the last 25 years is shown in the following table:<br />
proper to a conference at Cincinnati for the purpose<br />
of devising and carrying out a plan for holding<br />
a national waterway convention during the<br />
Year. Quantity—Short tons. Value. early part of the next session of congress."<br />
76,157,945<br />
$ 95,640.396 On June 7, the board of United States engineers<br />
85,881.030<br />
124,349,380 appointed to investigate the increase of the Ohio<br />
103,285,789<br />
146,632,581 river to a nine-foot stage, will meet in Cincinnati.<br />
115,212,125<br />
159,494,855 The members of the engineering board are Lieu<br />
119,735,051<br />
143,768,578 tenant Colonel Daniel W. Lockwood, Lieutenant<br />
111,159,795<br />
159,019,596 Colonel Ernest H. Ruffner. Lieutenant Colonel<br />
113,680,027<br />
Clinton B. Sears, Major Ge<strong>org</strong>e A. Zinn and Major<br />
130,650,211<br />
William L. Sibert, engineer in charge of local<br />
improvement and the junior member of the board<br />
appointed to investigate the matter. The board<br />
will report on the cost of constructing a six-foot<br />
as well as a nine-foot stage, as well as the cost of<br />
maintenance, and the amount<br />
present and prospective.<br />
of commerce at<br />
1880<br />
1881<br />
1882<br />
1883<br />
1884<br />
1885<br />
1886<br />
1887<br />
1888<br />
1889<br />
1890<br />
1891<br />
1892<br />
1893<br />
1894<br />
1895<br />
1896<br />
1897<br />
1898<br />
1899<br />
1900<br />
1901<br />
1902<br />
1903<br />
1904<br />
148,659,407<br />
141,229,613<br />
157,770,963<br />
168,566,669<br />
179,329,071<br />
182.352,774<br />
170,741,526<br />
193,117,530<br />
, .. . 191,986,357<br />
200,229,199<br />
219,976,267<br />
253,741,192<br />
269,684,027<br />
293,299,816<br />
301,590,439<br />
357,356,416<br />
351,196,953<br />
THE OHIO RIVER INSPECTION.<br />
154,600,176<br />
182,498,737<br />
190,881,012<br />
160,226,323<br />
176,804,573<br />
191,133,135<br />
207,566,381<br />
208,438,696<br />
186,141,564<br />
197,799,043<br />
196,640,166<br />
198,897,178<br />
208,023,250<br />
256,094,234<br />
306,688,164<br />
348,926,069<br />
367,032,069<br />
503,724 381<br />
445,643,528<br />
The tour of inspection made by the members<br />
of the rivers and harbors committee of congress,<br />
from Pittsburgh to Cairo, on the steamer Queen<br />
City, ended officially at the latter place on May<br />
18, with the members of the conimittee practically<br />
a unit in the opinion that the desired improvements<br />
in the Ohio should be made with the least<br />
possible delay. This was admitted long before<br />
the end of the trip was reached as the committee<br />
was met at every stopping place with statistical<br />
WAGE AGREEMENTS ADJUSTED.<br />
Wage agreements for the Harwick mine and the<br />
mine of the Butts Cannel Coal Co., in the Pittsburgh<br />
district of the Western Pennsylvania bituminous<br />
field have been adjusted. A new system<br />
of mining adopted resulted in a special scale<br />
being made for the Harwick mine. For run-ofmine<br />
the machine operators will receive 15.5 cents<br />
per ton. For cutting narrow passages the company<br />
will pay 9.5 cents per yard extra. Loaders<br />
will get 28.5 cents per ton for run-of-mine, and<br />
48.78 cents per ton for loading from narrows. The<br />
Pittsburgh district scale will be effective with the<br />
exception of the above changes. In the Butts<br />
cannel coal mine the diggers will get $1 per ton<br />
for run-of-mine; $1.65 for entry driving, when dry,<br />
and $1.94 for wet entry driving. For break<br />
through the men win get 66 cents, and for removing<br />
slate 25 cents per yard. For air courses 45<br />
cents will be paid.<br />
All the scales for the Pittsburgh district are now<br />
signed.
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