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i <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE CASUALTIES.<br />
Fire, caused by sparks from an engine, destroyed<br />
the coal tipple adjoining the roundhouse<br />
of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh railroad, near East<br />
Liverpool, 0., on February 17. Several cars were<br />
also destroyed; loss, $25,000. i<br />
—x—<br />
By an explosion in shaft No. 1, of the United<br />
States Coal & Coke Co., near Bluefield, W. Va.,<br />
on February 26, twenty-three miners lost their<br />
lives, and the mine property was badly damaged.<br />
The cause of the explosion has not been determined.<br />
—x—<br />
Heavy damage has been caused by fire in the<br />
Sumpter mines of the Tennessee Coal, Iron &<br />
Railroad Co., in the Blue Creek region near Blocton,<br />
Ala. All efforts to extinguish the flames have<br />
so far been ineffectual.<br />
—x—<br />
The Erie coal pocket and sandhouse, at Port<br />
Jervis, N. Y., together with 500 bushels of coal<br />
and a number of cars, were destroyed by fire recently,<br />
involving a loss of $100,000.<br />
—x—<br />
Five men were killed and considerable damage<br />
done to mining property by a boiler explosion at<br />
the plant of the Providence Coal Co., near St.<br />
Clairsville. O., on February 20.<br />
—x—<br />
Fire, supposedly of incendiary origin, destroyed<br />
the company store of the Pittsburgh & Baltimore<br />
Coal Co., at its Edna No. 1 plant; loss is $8,000.<br />
—x—<br />
The steamer Big Kanawha was sunk and the<br />
steamer Tacoma badly damaged by ice in the<br />
Ohio river at Maysville, Ky., on Febuary 24.<br />
Nationalization of The Prussian Mines.<br />
The movement in Prussia to nationalize the<br />
business of coal mining in Rhenish Westphalia<br />
and Silesia is interesting as the first step in this<br />
direction. The government has been assured that<br />
to capitalize the mines on which Prussia depends<br />
and make them government property would present<br />
no financial difficulties, and that the $250,-<br />
000,000, more or less, which may be needed for<br />
this purpose can be had at once at very low interest,<br />
since the security underlying bonds of this<br />
character would be the best known. Whether the<br />
government has any serious purpose of taking<br />
over the coal mines or is merely putting itself<br />
in a position to show the mine owners and the<br />
miners what it could do if the necessity for action<br />
in the public interest should arise, probably will<br />
not be known until it acts.<br />
THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN. 39<br />
Holland has set a fine example of fidelity to<br />
treaty obligations. Instead of waiting for the<br />
Japs or the Russians to pounce on the contraband<br />
coal the ships under Dutch registration are carrying,<br />
it is employing its own naval vessels to<br />
run them down after which the coal is confiscated<br />
for use in the Dutch East Indies.<br />
— o —<br />
The Russian news censors evidently had an<br />
inning with the preliminary report of the finding<br />
of the North sea commission, inasmuch as they<br />
declared the Russian position to have been sustained.<br />
But like the Eastern war news, when<br />
the real facts got out, the result proved just the<br />
opposite of the first announcement.<br />
—o—<br />
The failures of the killing amendments to the<br />
rivers and harbors bill, offered in the House of<br />
Representatives by the enemies of the measure,<br />
were by such decisive margins that the resistance<br />
did not rise to the dignity of opposition.<br />
— o —<br />
A British commission on availahle coal supply<br />
finds that the tight little island has several hundred<br />
million tons more in sight than the reports<br />
show that it had a quarter of a century ago.<br />
The Blue Creek Properties.<br />
Former Mine Inspector Roderick has completed<br />
a report of the properties of the Blue Creek Coal<br />
& Land Co. in West Virginia, which is controlled<br />
by Scranton capitalists. The company owns 3,507<br />
acres in fee simple, 11,589 in coal rights, and 2,071<br />
in mineral rights. There are five veins of coal,<br />
estimated to contain over 500,000,000 tons of coal.<br />
It is not proposed by the company owning these<br />
interests to operate its own coal lands, but to<br />
lease its rights. For this purpose several companies<br />
are being <strong>org</strong>anized at Scranton which will<br />
secure leases from the owners and will sink shafts<br />
as soon as arrangements can be made. There is<br />
room, it is stated, for 40 leaseholds, each producing<br />
an average of 500 tons a day, and applications<br />
have been made for leases for the majority<br />
of these.<br />
A new coal road to connect with the Pennsylvania<br />
railroad will be built at once from Altoona<br />
to Ormsbury, the latter place in Cambria county.<br />
The new road is to be known as the Kittanning<br />
Run railroad, and is capitalized at $100,000, the<br />
stock being owned by Altoona capitalists. The<br />
road will be 15 miles long and will tap new coal<br />
territory. The connection with the Pennsylvania<br />
will be at Altoona.