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44 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
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PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.<br />
The towboat Defender, owned by the Monongahela<br />
River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co., was<br />
practically destroyed at Huntington, W. Va., on<br />
January 3 by a boiler explosion ascribed to "pit"<br />
due to the acidity and impurity of the river water<br />
for several months past. The Defender was moving<br />
up stream with a tow of empty barges, on<br />
her way to Pittsburgh. Nine of the crew lost<br />
tlieir lives in the accident and nearly all the remainder<br />
were more or less injured.<br />
According to the report of the government geological<br />
survey, Washington is the only one of the<br />
Pacific states producing true coal. All of the<br />
product from Oregon and California is lignitic in<br />
character. Some of the Washington coals have<br />
the characteristics of anthracite, some are true<br />
coking coals, and some natural coal has been produced.<br />
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is experimenting<br />
with fuel composed of soft and hard coal.<br />
The test is being made on the Schuylkill division.<br />
and a locomotive has been equipped specially for<br />
the purpose. Buckwheat anthracite is mixed with<br />
a small size of bituminous. The test has been<br />
successful so far.<br />
An action to recover $120,000 from the Green<br />
Ridge Coal Co. has been begun at Scranton, Pa..<br />
by the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Co., the<br />
claim being for coal alleged to have been unlawfully<br />
mined from lands belonging to the latter<br />
company.<br />
Operations have been resumed at all the coal<br />
mines along the Somerset and Cambria branch<br />
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, between Somerset<br />
and Rockwood, Pa. The Shamrock and Bando<br />
mines are running day and night.<br />
For locomotive purposes last year England consumed<br />
9,251.563 tons of coal. Scotland 1,790,758<br />
tons and Ireland 357.092 tons.<br />
MISSOURI <strong>COAL</strong> MINING REPORT.<br />
The sale of two tracts of coal lands near Uniontown,<br />
Pa., for $55,000 is announced. One tract<br />
contained 83 acres and the other 36 acres. They<br />
were owned by Congressman and Mrs. A. F.<br />
Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Lackey, Mr. and Mrs.<br />
W. A. Stone and Ge<strong>org</strong>e L. Hibbs, of Uniontown,<br />
and John C. Neff, of Masontown, and were sold<br />
to the Connellsville Central Coal & Coke Co.<br />
A company composed principally of British and<br />
German capitalists has been formed for the purpose<br />
of working a recently discoved coal field near<br />
Sabinas, in the state of Coahuila, Mexico. The<br />
principal vein is from seven to eight feet wide<br />
and underlies an area of 15,000 acres. The new<br />
coal field is about 7 ] The following statistics are taken from the last<br />
annual report of the state mine inspector of Missouri.<br />
The table shows the growth of the coal industry<br />
during the last 15 years. Practically the<br />
entire output is consumed locally.<br />
Tons. Price. Value.<br />
1889 2,223,477 "Jl.3.6 $3,030,414<br />
1890 2,437,399 ' 1.32 3,234,351<br />
1891 2.650.018 -1.31 3,480.867<br />
1892 3,017,285 -'1.27 3,825,828<br />
1893 3,190.442 1.25 3,999,681<br />
1894 2,383,322 • 1.26 3,013,075<br />
1895<br />
1896<br />
1897<br />
1898<br />
1899<br />
1900<br />
1901<br />
L. miles from the Mexican<br />
1902<br />
International railway.<br />
1903<br />
2,283,081<br />
2.420,147<br />
2,429,388<br />
2,838,152<br />
3.191,811<br />
2,995,022<br />
3,812,527<br />
4,063,572<br />
4,265,328<br />
' 1.17<br />
1.13<br />
1.10<br />
1.10<br />
1.12<br />
1.21<br />
1.24<br />
1.31<br />
1.58<br />
2.675,690<br />
2,741,711<br />
2,684,757<br />
3,148,862<br />
3.582,111<br />
3,643,975<br />
4,716,331<br />
5,325,832<br />
6,730,515<br />
44,201,971 $1.26 $55,834,000<br />
The coal industry of the state employed in and<br />
about mines during the winter season 10,517 men<br />
and during the summer season 7,837, or an average<br />
throughout the year of 9,177 men. There were<br />
348 mines operated, of which 165 were shaft openings,<br />
60 slope openings, 76 drift openings and 47<br />
strip pits. The power used was distributed as<br />
follows: Steam plants 102, horse power 119, hand<br />
power 79 and 10 electric plants. The mines were<br />
ventilated by 82 fans as against 100 furnaces and<br />
122 by natural means. The mines were operated<br />
under the l<strong>org</strong> wall system at 141 places and under<br />
the pillar and room at 164 places. There were<br />
123,562 kegs of powder consumed in the mines in<br />
extracting the coal, furnished at a cost of $246,-<br />
770.10.<br />
Big Coal Strike In Germany.<br />
A great coal strike has been inaugurated in the<br />
Rhenish provinces of Prussia. The strike may<br />
involve 200.000 miners, crippling the German coal<br />
industry. The men went out because of the refusal<br />
of the companies to grant them higher<br />
wages and shorter hours.
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