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30 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
United States Consul E. H. Plumacher, Maracaibo,<br />
reports that the government of Venezuela<br />
has decided to give no titles to coal mines in the<br />
future, but to exploit all such mines under its<br />
own supervision and ownership. If there is any<br />
government in the world that is carrying the idea<br />
of government ownership to extremes it is that of<br />
Venezuela. It has taken unto itself recently<br />
asphalt, guano and some half dozen other things<br />
and is still continuing to reach out. Unfortunately<br />
its methods of absorption and conservation do not<br />
always come up to the modern idea of common<br />
honesty.<br />
— o —<br />
It is suggested, in view of the earnest efforts<br />
being made in Philadelphia to obtain government<br />
appropriation for deepening the Delaware from<br />
its present 30-foot channel to 35 feet, that the<br />
congressmen from Eastern Pennsylvania combine<br />
with those of the Western end of the state in a<br />
strong and determined effort to get the much<br />
desired and needed depth in both the Delaware<br />
and the Ohio. In union there is strength but it<br />
is not to be f<strong>org</strong>otten that combined attacks sometimes<br />
result in the annihilation of one force.<br />
while the other is successful and reaps all the<br />
benefits of the united efforts.<br />
—o—<br />
The fact that there will be no wage conference<br />
or joint interstate agreement between mine workers<br />
and operators next spring and a whole year is<br />
ahead, free from the contentions and arguments<br />
between miners and their employers, should give<br />
reasonable assurance of an unusually long era of<br />
peace to the trade. Its results may determine<br />
the wisdom of biennial agreements in the future<br />
instead of annual settlements.<br />
— o —<br />
The one feature of coal mining that was really<br />
lacking in the fine exhibits seen at the St. Louis<br />
Fair was the historic and ever-present mine mule.<br />
The masses of people who saw the beautiful models<br />
of mines, tipples and mine villages went away<br />
without the first inkling of this very conspicuous<br />
character in coal mining.<br />
—o—<br />
Two thousand coal heavers in Vienna. Austria,<br />
have struck for a 13-hour work day and a weekly<br />
wage of $5 flat. Here is food for thought for<br />
those who are eternally expressing their dissatisfaction<br />
at American conditions and wages and who<br />
cite the easy and contented life the foreign workman<br />
leads.<br />
—o—<br />
Recent developments in the coke regions, where<br />
thousands of ovens were forced to suspend opera<br />
tions for lack of water, show a new element in the<br />
difficulties of coke making that might in a large<br />
measure be overcome, since the operators are now<br />
fully aware of its presence.<br />
—o—<br />
The coal man at Lowell, Mass., who shows that<br />
his failure was due to the fact that he sold coal<br />
to the poor during the strike two years ago, might<br />
recoup his fortunes by making a tour of the country<br />
and charging an admission fee.<br />
— o —<br />
Japan is buying Welsh coal now. The correspondence<br />
between buyer and seller must be a<br />
philological curiosity.<br />
BRITISH EXPORTS FOR TEN MONTHS.<br />
The exports of fuel from Great Britain for the<br />
ten months ending October 31 were as follows, in<br />
long tons:<br />
1903. 1904. Increase.<br />
Coal 37,595.109 38,559,640 I. 964,531<br />
Coke 567.736 611.782 I. 44,046<br />
Briquettes 802,494 1,059,992 I. 257,498<br />
Totals 38.965,339 40,231,414 1.1,266,075<br />
In addition to the above exports 14,394,308 tons<br />
of coal were sent abroad for the use of steamships<br />
engaged in the foreign trade.<br />
A Mammoth Coal Storage Plant.<br />
President Baer of the Philadelphia & Reading<br />
Coal & Iron Co., has awarded to the Link Belt<br />
Engineering Co., of Peekskill, N. Y., the contract<br />
for the construction of the largest eoal storage<br />
plant in the world. The plant, which will have<br />
a capacity of more than half a million tons of<br />
coal, will be located at Abrams, on the main line<br />
of the Reading Railway, near Bridgeport, Pa., and<br />
will have railroad frontage of' fully a mile. The<br />
plant will consist of eight piles, with a capacity<br />
of 60,000 tons each. It will have a guaranteed<br />
receiving capacity of 14.000 tons in ten hours,<br />
and a discharging capacity of 10,000 tons in the<br />
same time.<br />
Receiver Asked For Coal Company.<br />
A petition in involuntary bankruptcy has been<br />
filed against Eli M. Upton and Thomas R. Levis<br />
of Rochester, N. Y., individually and as co-partners<br />
in the firm of E. M. Upton & Co. and E. M. Upton<br />
Coal Co. It is alleged Eli M. Upton executed a<br />
general assignment to Alvi T. Baldwin of about<br />
$300,000 worth of property belonging to the copartnership.