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New Coal Mines For Somerset County.
Engineers of the Pennsylvania railroad have
commenced the survey for a branch from the Ber­
wind-White coal operations at Foustwell to Bos­
well and the new fields being opened in Jenner,
Stony Creek and Quemahoning townships in Som­
erset county. The road will be in operation by
next spring. Contractors for the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad have also begun work on an exten­
sion from the Somerset and Cambria branch at
the junction of the Stony Creek river and Quemahoning
creek to the mines being opened by the
Quemahoning Coal Co. near Holsopple.
New Competitor For Soft Coal Trade.
When tiie Western Maryland railroad is com­
pleted and linked up with the West Virginia Central
and Pittsburgh railway, it is likely to become
a strong competitor of the Baltimore & Ohio and
the Pennsylvania railroads in the soft coal market.
As owners of the Davis Coal & Coke Co. mines and
ovens in West Virginia, it will compete for the
New York and New England trade now so largely
supplied by the Baltimore & Ohio. In prepara­
tion for this business the Western Maryland is
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having several sea-going tugs and barges built, and
it is said will run them to points above Cape Cod,
with the usual schooner fleet that come to Baltimore
for coal.
Lackawanna Co. Departure.
The Lackawanna Co. will try the experiment at
an early day of operating its Truesdale colliery
with water power. A tunnel will be constructed
from the breaker to the Susquehanna river. It
is said the operation of the colliery by water will
reduce the running expenses 90 per cent.
The statistics relating to the manufacture of
coke in by-product ovens show that the total num­
her of ovens completed and in blast increased from
1,663 in 1902 to 1,956 in 1903, and that the pro­
duction of by-product coke increased from 1,403,-
588 short tons to 1.S82.394 short tons, a gain of
478,806 tons, although the total coke production
fell off 139,370 tons. There were under construc­
tion at the close of 1903. 1,335 new by-product
ovens, which number constituted more than 20
per cent, of the total new ovens building at that
time.
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