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and handlers, coal heavers and trimmers and coalhoisting
engineers' unions will be represented
in it.
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The Pittsburgh Vein Coal Operators' Association,
of Ohio, has adopted the code of rules devised
by i Chief Mine Inspector George Harrison,
with a view to increasing the safety of the workmen
in the No. 8 seam in the mines in Jefferson,
Belmont and Harrison counties.
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Big Mountain colliery slope, after an idleness
of four years owing to the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal & Iron Co. (dosing down because the firemen,
then on strike, would not work to prevent the mine
from flooding, has been reopened. Two hundred
men and boys are employed.
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A strike by which 1.200 mine employes were
thrown idle for one day took place at mine No. 9
of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. near Pittston, Pa.
The shutdown was occasioned by the discharge of
two drivers, who, it is alleged, quit work before
the whistle was sounded.
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John Fahy, of Pottsville, president of District
No. 9, will be the choice of the anthracite mine
workers for national president if John Mitchell
steps out, as has been reported, to become the
head of a new Civic Federation.
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The 400 miners of the Wade and Morgan Run
mines near Coshocton, 0., have voted to accept
the proposition of President Dennis, of Cleveland,
for arbitration and will start to work. They have
been on strike since May.
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The strike of the coal carters of Havre, France,
which left the city without coal for two weeks.
has been settled by the authorities using a squadron
of cavalry to protect the carters who were
opposed to the strike.
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All the mines in the Coal creek district of the
Tennessee field have resumed operations on the
"open shop" basis. The normal output has not
yet been reached but the shipments are increasing
steadily.
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The Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co. has
arranged to give its employes a series of lectures
by mining, electrical, ventilating, pumping, lubricating
and medical experts.
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Work has been resumed at the plant of the Loyalhanna
Coal & Coke Co. at Latrobe. Pa. All of
the 300 ovens are being fired.
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The miners of the Cumberland & Georges Creek
Coal Co. are being put on full time.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. II
|*| NEW ENTERPRISES. Jj
The Pittsburgh & Wabash Coal Co. has been organized
with a capital of $200,000, by Monessen,
Charleroi and Donora men, who own nearly 2,000
acres on the line of the Wabash. The officers are:
President. Theodore J. Allen; secretary and treasurer,
R. L. Riddle; solicitor, D. M. McClosky.
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The Calder Brick and Coal Co.. Detroit; capital
stock. $100,000; treasurer, Alexander McVittie, Detroit,
Mich: directors, Alexander McVittie, Charles
B. Calder, Alvin F. Knoblich, Fred. H. Aldrich,
Detroit; William H. G. Walker, Eunice N. Walker,
Cameron.
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The Curogen Coal Co., of Paintsville, Ky.; capital,
$50,000; incorporators. E. S. Hitchins, Olive
Hill, Ky.; L. N. Davis. S. S. Willis, Ashland, Ky.;
John C. Mayo, Paintsville, Ky.; and Adam E.
Hitchins, Frostburg, Md.
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Thacker Fee Co., Elkhorn, W. Va.: capital. $50,-
000; incorporators, Howard H. Houston, Chester,
Pa.; Charles E. Pugh, Philadelphia; T. E. Houston,
Elkhorn; A. J. Duel. Harrisburg, Pa.: George
S. Graham, Philadelphia.
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The Wolf Tongue Mining Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.;
capital, $100,000: incorporators, A. G. McKennan,
Copeland, Pa.; Austin A. Wheelock, New York
City; C. V. Wheeler, J. W. Kinner, Eben B. Clock,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Mount Carmel Coal & Coke Co.. Mount Carmel.
W. Va.; capita], $100,000; incorporators, George E.
Burner, Joseph Gould, Frederick W. McGrady, Mt.
Carmel. Pa.; William N. Brown, of Charleston, W.
Va.
Curogen Coal Co., Paintville, K.; capital. $50.-
000; incorporators. E. S. Hitchens, Olive Hill, Ky.:
L. N. Davis, S. S. Willis, Ashland, Ky.; John C.
Mayo. Paintville, Ky.; and Adam E. Hitchens,
Frostburg, Md.
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The Jackson Mining Co.. Saoneboro, Pa.: capital,
$14,000; incorporators, E. S. Templeton, T. G.
Whiteman, S. J. Orr, Greenville; R. P. Gann,
Stoneboro; F. W. Powers, Youngstown, O.
Mohican Coal Co., Philadelphia; capital stock.
$15,000; treasurer. Francis S. Laws, Philadelphia;
directors, Francis C. Adler, Francis S. Laws, J.
Frank Staley, Philadelphia.
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Braidwood-Wilmington Coal & Manufacturing
Co., Braidwood, 111.; capital, $25,000; incorporators,
B. H. Higgins, Joseph Malek, James Barnes.