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UNION PACIFIC COAL COMPANY.
A saving in railroad haul of 100 miles, an increase
in coal output of at least 50 per cent, and
an additional employment of thousands of coal
miners is to be the result of this year's Union
Pacific improvements in its great Southwestern
Wyoming coal fields. The coal operating supply
of the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific railroads
is henceforth to chiefly come from the Wyoming
fields of the Inion Pacific Coal Co. and production
of the Wyoming mines of the company,
and their transportation equipments and facilities
are to be increased accordingly. Features of this
increased development are the abandoning of the
present practically worked-out coal deposit at
Spring Valley and the full exploiting of new coal
fields lying between Spring Valley and Timberland.
In addition to the above, the Union Pacific will
take hold of the now practically idle coal fields at
Alma, near Evanston. These fields, once operated
heavily by the Southern Pacific, are now controlled
by the Rocky Mountain Coal & Iron Co.,
from which company the Union Pacific will either
lease or purchase. Connecting lines of railroad
will be built to shorten the Southern haul and
employment will be furnished to 5,000 more men.
COMMENDATION FOR COAL MEN.
Complimentary notices of the doings of coal
men are so rare in the daily press that the following,
written by an Albany editor, seems worthy
of reproduction, even if only as a literary curiosity:
"That 'there is a trick in every trade' is as true
as that there are honest men in every trade to
catch the trickster, or vice-versa. The establishment
of the public weighing scales in this city at
the request of the Coal Merchants' Association of
Albany may, perhaps, be treated lightly by the
ready paragrapher. His brother of the comicweekly
has considered the coal dealer and the ice
man legitimate prey when the winter and summer
seasons, respectively, require ready jests and appropriate
humor. We are now in the midst of
the season when the backing of the coal cart to
our cellar door is a most welcome sight, for
while an old friend of ours fooled the coalman by
heating the house with steam, his scheme has not
been taken up very extensively.
"The action of the honest dealers of the city in
urging the mayor to designate the public scales
is worthy of the commendation of every householder.
Albany dealers are among the few of the
first and second-class cities that have insisted
upon the protection of the purchaser. Under the
present system of buying from the coal mining and
carrying companies, each and every dealer has
about the same opportunity as regards price. In
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selling one cannot undersell another to any extent
unless he is content with a very low margin
of profit. The provisions of the law show its fairness
and the disinterested stand of the dealers.
The only benefit to them is that it prevents unfair
competition. They are willing and anxious to
be subjected to delay in delivering of coal in order
that they and their customers shall hav^ proper
protection against the dishonest man who makes
a false price and delivers a short ton to make up
the difference. The Coal Merchants' Association
of Albany is to be complimented upon the stand
it has taken."
•••« PERSONAL. *•"«(
Mr. Alexander Cuninghame has resigned as general
manager of the Luhrig Coal Co., of Cincinnati,
and will take an active part in the management
of the Consolidated Coal Co., of Spadra, Ark.,
having recently been elected vice-president of that
corporation. He will retain the presidency of the
Luhrig company, but his nephew, Mr. John Cuninghame,
who succeeded him as general manager,
will direct the company's affairs.
Air. H. B. Voorhees, who was for some time
identified with the Baltimore & Ohio interests at
Pittsburgh and wdio several months ago was made
assistant to the general superintendent of transportation,
has been made superintendent and general
agent of the Philadelphia division of the
B. & O. Mr. Voorhees is a son of First Vice-President
Theodore Voorhees of the Reading.
Mr. W. J. Mollison, inspector of the Eleventh
bituminous district of Pennsylvania, has resigned
to accept a position as inspector of mines for the
H. C. Frick Coke Co. He has been assigned to
the Yough region division of the company's mines
which is one of the most important districts in
the Connellsville region.
Messrs. Miles White and William A. Moale have
been elected directors of the George's Creek Coal
& Iron Co., the former succeeding his father, the
late Francis White, and Mr. Moale taking the place
of the late Samuel P. Townsend.
It is announced that Mr. R. R. Hammond, who
recently resigned the second vice-presidency of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad to become an
official of the new Dering Coal Co., is to become
the president and general manager of the latter
company.
Mr. E. Kelly Rothstein has succeeded Mr. George
P. Spates as the Baltimore manager of the Davis
Coal & Coke Co.