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28 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
THE CUMBERLAND <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE.<br />
The annual report of the Cumberland coal trade,<br />
which includes the Ge<strong>org</strong>e's Creek and Upper Potomac<br />
regions for the year 1904 has just been<br />
issued. During the year 5,905,388 tons were mined<br />
and shipped, a decrease of 126,788 tons compared<br />
with 1903 and a decrease of 383,479 tons compared<br />
with 1902. the banner year of the Cumberland<br />
trade when 6,288.867 tons were shipped. The Bal<br />
timore & Ohio railroad carried 3.923,036 tons of<br />
coal mined in the two fields during the year, the<br />
Pennsylvania carried LOSS.934 tons, the Chesa<br />
peake & Ohio canal carried 205,964 tons and 767,-<br />
454 tons were shipped to local points, converted<br />
into coke or included in the surplus. The Cum<br />
berland & Pennsylvania railroad, the main feeder<br />
of the Ge<strong>org</strong>e's Creek region, carried during the<br />
year 3.232.92S tons, of which 2.591.009 tons were<br />
delivered to the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, 234.-<br />
502 tons were delivered to the Pennsylvania<br />
branch here and 205,964 tons were turned over to<br />
the Chesapeake & Ohio canal for shipment to Williamsport<br />
and Ge<strong>org</strong>etown, while 201,453 tors were<br />
used locally or included in the surplus. The ton<br />
nage of the Ge<strong>org</strong>e s Creek and Cumberland railroad<br />
during the season was 675.173, of which 552,-<br />
993 tons were delivered to the Pennsylvania here,<br />
92,738 tons to the Baltimore & Ohio and 29,442<br />
tons were distributed locally or included in the sur<br />
plus.<br />
During 1904, the West Virginia Central and<br />
Pittsburgh railway carried 1.997.287 tons of which<br />
1,239,289 tons were delivered to the Baltimore &<br />
Ohio, 221,439 tons were delivered to the Pennsylvania<br />
and 530,559. were converted into coke, used<br />
locally, or included in the surplus. The coke output<br />
amounted to 263.311 tons, made from 364,966<br />
tons of coal and was delivered as follows: To<br />
Baltimore & Ohio railroad. 246.335 tons. Pennsylvania,<br />
16,553 tons, and 433 tons used locally.<br />
The entire output of the Ge<strong>org</strong>e's Creek region<br />
was 3,908.101 tons, a decrease of 69,029 tons compared<br />
with 1903. 'I'he output of the West Virginia<br />
Central shows a decrease of 57,759 tons compared<br />
with the preceding year.<br />
Since the opening of the Ge<strong>org</strong>e's Creek region<br />
in 1842 when 1,708 tons of coal were mined, the<br />
output has been 106,525,685 tons. The output by<br />
individual companies during the year 1904 was<br />
as follows: Consolidation Coal Co., 1,832,269 tons.<br />
increase of 77,350 tons over preceding year; Black,<br />
Sheridan, Wilson Co., 740,487 tons, decrease of<br />
83,329 tons; Maryland Coal Co., 322,080 tons, increase<br />
13,611; American Coal Co., 237,670 tons, de<br />
crease 56,274 tons; Ge<strong>org</strong>e's Creek Coal & Iron Co..<br />
222,053 tons, increase 80,285 tons; New Central<br />
Coal Co.. 122.253 tons, decrease 9,274 tons; Pied<br />
mont and Ge<strong>org</strong>e's Creek Coal Co., 183,481 tons,<br />
increase 44,924 tons. Other shippers were: Lonaconing<br />
Coal Co., 11.123 tons, decrease 23,515; H. &<br />
W. A. Hitchins, 25,000 tons, decrease 18,407; Midland<br />
Mining Co., 43,172 tons, decrease of 454; Piedmont<br />
Mining Co., 44,321 tons, increase 12,245;<br />
Piedmont-Cumberland Coal Co., 16,494 tons, decrease<br />
34,338; Frostburg Coal Mining Co., 5,933<br />
tons, decrease 10.559 tons; Cumberland-Ge<strong>org</strong>e's<br />
Creek Coal Co., 11,146 tons, decrease 1,120; Phoenix<br />
Mining Co., 43.S41 tons, increase 5,264; Chapman<br />
Coal Mining Co.. 25,676 tons, increase 9,424; Mos<br />
cow-Ge<strong>org</strong>e's Creek Mining Co., 6,009 tons, de<br />
crease 8,104; Cumberland Basin Coal Co., 6,244<br />
tons, decrease 8,712.<br />
The following were the shipments of new opera<br />
tions during the year: Rock Vein Coal Co., 4,289<br />
tons; Ge<strong>org</strong>e's Creek Bald Knob Coal Co., 1,981<br />
tons; McMullen Bros., 359 tons; Bowery Coal Co.,<br />
2,200 tons. The shipments from the Franklin<br />
mine of the Davis Coal & Coke Co. in the Ge<strong>org</strong>e's<br />
Creek region amounted to only 9,888 tons, a de<br />
crease of 211,593 tons.<br />
The heaviest producers of the North Potomac<br />
basin (West Virginia Central region) were: Davis<br />
Coal & Coke Co. (Thomas mines) 429,437 tons, decrease<br />
100,928; (Coketon) 324,644 tons, decrease<br />
16,474; (Elk Garden) 30S.816 tons, increase 26,900;<br />
(Franklin) 180,708 tons, increase 180,708 tons;<br />
(Henry) 100,365 tons, increase 47.741 tons; Cumberland<br />
Coal Co. (Douglas mine) 151,770 tons,<br />
decrease 25,312; Harding, 66,999, decrease 35,068;<br />
Junior mine. 36,473 tons, decrease 33,435; Bayard<br />
mine, 31,047. increase 29,249 tons; Dodson mine,<br />
40.830 tons, increase 16.000. The Masteller Coal<br />
Co. at \\ indom, a new operation, produced 39,360<br />
tons.<br />
Milwaukee Coal Stocks Depleted.<br />
With few exceptions all the vessels chartered to<br />
load coal cargoes at Milwaukee during the winter<br />
have been unloaded. Coal is moving freely into<br />
the interior towns and indications are that the<br />
stock at Milwaukee will he pretty well cleaned up<br />
by the opening of navigation. A. E. Uhdig, president<br />
of the Milwaukee Western Co., says that at<br />
the close of navigation last year there were ap<br />
proximately 2,200,000 tons of hard and soft coal<br />
on the docks at Milwaukee. When stock was<br />
taken January 1 last, something over 1,000,000 tons<br />
remained.<br />
Practical tests have shown that Transvaal coal<br />
can be used for steamship firing in combination<br />
with Cardiff or other high-grade coal, but that<br />
when used alone it entails so much extra work<br />
upon firemen that there is a question as to whether<br />
it is profitable.