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Edward Zollinger has engaged in the coal business
at Junction City, Kas.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 47
The Louisville & Nashville and Southern railway
H. F. Noyes has engaged in the lumber and coal
systems are figuring on constructing from ten to
business at Dresden, Kas.
twenty miles more extension into the coal fields
in Walker county, Ala., and the work is to be
Mrs. J. L. Seigneur has sold her coal business done within the next four or five months. Coal
at South Auburn, Neb.
companies are now preparing to develop on a
large scale, and others who have mines already
established or under way have promised to give
traffic which in time will pay for the construction
proposed.
The title of auditor of coal freight receipts has
been changed by the Pennsylvania lines West to
that of auditor of ore and coal freight receipts.
This office is held by Mr. A. P. Griest, and hereafter
he will be known officially under the new
title. This change is in line with the change
made about a year ago in the title of coal freight
agent to general ore and coal agent of the Pennsylvania
lines, which office is held by Mr. C. F.
Perkins. In addition to the change in the auditing
office, Mr. T. B. Stoaks has been appointed
assistant auditor of ore and coal freight receipts.
Mr. P. R. Odell. formerly auditor's traveling agent,
has been appointed chief clerk to Auditor Griest,
succeeding Mr. Stoakes. The changes became
effective April 1.
The advertising representatives of a large num­
ber of concerns engaged in the manufacture of
machinery and allied industries have formed an
organization to be known as the Technical Publicity
Association. The first annual meeting.
dinner and election of officers was held in the
rooms of the Hardware Club in the Postal Telegraph
building, New York City, on the evening
of April 27, at which an address was delivered by
Mr. E. T. Harris, well known as a broker of
trade and technical journals.
The Taylor Coal & Coke Co., of Uniontown, Pa.,
Mr. J. B. Porter, professor of mining engineer­ will build 150 coke ovens at its new plant, to be
ing at McGill University, Montreal, will take a located near Uniontown.
party of 15 students through the anthracite regions
of Pennsylvania, visiting coal mines in the
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neighborhood of Scranton and Bethlehem, and The Fairmont Coal Co. will spend $250,000 in
also a number of iron mines. The party left opening new mines and increasing the efficiency of
Montreal on April 25.
the old ones.
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Mr. Richard Devens who has for some years
been connected with the European office of the
Brown Hoisting Machinery Co., of Cleveland, has
been appointed manager of the company's New
York office, 26 Cortlandt street, to succeed Mr.
W. A. Stadelman who has resigned.
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Plans for the enlargement of the present facilities
of the Kanawha Fuel Co., at Milwaukee, involving
the expenditure of $300,000 for docks and
coal-handling machinery, have been ratified by
officers and stockholders. With the expenditure
of $300,000 the capacity of the company will be
increased 300,000 tons of coal a year, making the
contemplated handling capacity of the Milwaukee
branch of the company 450,000 tons.
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About $150,000 is to be invested by the Lehigh
Valley Coal Co. in an elaborate system of coal
docks, handling apparatus, and pockets on a tract
of about seven acres on the lake front at Milwaukee,
Wis.
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The George's Creek Coal & Coke Co., in addition
to other extensive improvements now well under
way, will build several hundred new coke ovens
next fall.
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The Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Co. is preparing
to open new mines near Ebensburg, Pa., and has
selected a town-site comprising several hundred
acres.
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The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. has decided to
build a coal storage house capable of holding 25,000
tons of coal.
Connellsville, Pa., is urging Andrew Carnegie
to establish a school at that place.