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40 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
ANTHRACITE MINERS WILL BE
RE-EXAMINED FOR CERTIFICATES.
The miners of the anthracite field of Pennsylvania
are to be re-examined and new certificates
issued. This action has been decided upon by
Chief James Roderick, because of the increase in
number of fatal and non-fatal accidents about the
mines, and because he believes that miners are
holding certificates illegally, and without having
the necessary qualification's. The first notice of
Chief Roderick's stand in the matter was given to
the examining board of the First district. He
directed that the board call in the 5.000 certificates
held by the miners of the First district and hold
new examinations. in accordance with instructions
the members of the First district board met
at Carbondale and decided to begin the re-examination
on July 1. The first sitting of the board
will be at Carbondale. and the other sittings will
be held at central points. The examinations will
be particularly rigid. The questions will number
fourteen instead of ten, and will be more exacting
than formerly. Furthermore, the miners
will have to get an average of 90 per cent, to pass,
while an average of 70 is now sufficient to secure
a certificate. It is expected that the new questions
will be particularly severe on the miners of
Carbondale and vicinity, as they have to deal with
mine gases, with which the miners of that end of
the anthracite field are not familiar, owing to the
fact that there are no gaseous mines in that section.
Chief Roderick's order means the calling
in of 40.000 certificates and re-examining of that
number of miners.
NEW SOUTHERN COAL AND IRON
MERGER PROJECT IS PLANNED.
It was announced in New York on March 31 that
definite form had been given to the negotiations
for the merger of Southern iron companies through
the intervention in the project of the banking
houses of Blair & Co. and Ladenburg, Thalman
& Co. The banking houses have not made public
the progress which the transaction has made but
have said that some arrangements through them
for the consolidation might be reached. Besides
the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co., the Sloss-Sheffield
and the Alabama Consolidated, it is expected that
the Pioneer plant of the Republic Iron & Steel Co.
and possibly one or two smaller concerns will be
included in the merger. The capitalization and
liabilities of these properties is in the neighborhood
of $125,000,000.
An eleven-foot vein of coal was struck on the
property of the Amalgamated Copper Co. at Storrs,
near Anaconda. Mont., at a depth of 2,300 feet.
The City Coal Co. has been incorporated at
Richmond, Va., with a capital of $50,000 to do a
retail fuel business.
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The Orient Fuel & Supply Co. has been incorporated
at Kansas City, Kas., with a capital stock
of $5,000.
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The Municipal Gas & Fuel Co. has been incorated
at Kansas City, Mo., with a capital of $10,000.
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The Gooch Hardware Co. has purchased the
stock of coal, etc., of Bates & Co., at Granite, Okla.
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The Kansas Fuel Co. has been incorporated at
Columbus, Kas., with a capital stock of $20,000.
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F. E. Lloyd has sold his coal and lumber business
at Fairmont, Neb., to the Rogers Lumber Co.
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O. W. Hutchinson has succeeded to the coal business
of Hutchinson & Bird, at Billings, Mont.
The Oregon Timber & Coal Co. has been organized,
with its main office at Portland, Ore.
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Schweitzer Bros, have succeeded D. Schweitzer
in the coal business at Raymond, Neb.
H. T. Henderson is about to engage in the coal
and lumber business at Osceola, Neb.
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J. T. Callender has sold his coal and wood business
at Clinton, Mo., to J. F. Adcock.
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Aspegren & Strand have sold out their coal and
lumber business at Oxford, Neb.
H. H. Nusser has sold his coal business at
Olathe, Kas., to Stewart Bros.
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E. M. Goodrich has sold out his coal business
at Boise City, Ida.
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Robert Gibson & Sons have discontinued their
coal business at Rolfe, Ia.
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L. C. Baker has sold out his coal and lumber
business at Solomon, Kas.
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Aspegren & Strand have sold their coal business
at Oxford, Neb.
The Inter-State Coal Co. has been incorporated
at Schulter, I. T.