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42 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
per cent, over the wages fixed by the strike commission,<br />
in accordance with the sliding scale agreement.<br />
• • *<br />
The Mount Carmel colliery, owned by the Lehigh<br />
Valley Coal Co. and employing 600 men and boys,<br />
has suspended operations indefinitely because of a<br />
body of water in the mine being in danger of<br />
flooding the gangways.<br />
* * *<br />
The Mifflin Coal Co., of Duquesne, has booked<br />
from the Carnegie Coal Co. an order for its entire<br />
output the coming year. This will assure 300<br />
men steady work.<br />
* * «<br />
The anthracite miners are already planning to<br />
demand an eight hour day at nine hour pay when<br />
the present agreement with their employers expires.<br />
* * *<br />
The trouble in the Massillon district has been<br />
settled, the miners receiving advances of two to<br />
five cents per ton for drilling.<br />
* * *<br />
The strikers at Price, Utah, are beginning to<br />
leave the district, many going to Lafayette, Colo.<br />
Prussia Buying Coal Mines.<br />
The Prussian Diet devoted two days to an animated<br />
discussion on the bill appropriating $17,-<br />
500,000 to take over the shares of the Hibernian<br />
Coal Co. which the Dresden Bank bought on behalf<br />
of the Prussian government. The bill passed its<br />
first reading and was referred to a committee.<br />
Herr Moeller, minister of commerce and industry,<br />
was subjected to a sharp attack by Von Eynern,<br />
one of the national liberal leaders, who is a mem<br />
ber of the Hibernian Coal Co.'s directorate, for the<br />
secretive way in which the purchase of the stock<br />
was conducted.<br />
Threat To Extend Morris Run'Strike.<br />
A so-called ultimatum of the United Mine Work<br />
ers of America that in the event of the New York<br />
Central operators refusing to settle the strike<br />
at Morris Run all the men employed in the various<br />
operations controlled by the New York Central<br />
in the district will be called out, has been indirectly<br />
presented to the operators and its reception<br />
will determine the future course of the Mine Workers'<br />
<strong>org</strong>anization. The miners assert that the<br />
trouble at Morris Run is a direct attempt to crush<br />
their <strong>org</strong>anization in the Tioga county field. If<br />
the general strike is declared, it will involve about<br />
4,000 miners employed in Tioga, Clearfield, Cam<br />
bria and Jefferson counties, as well as hundreds<br />
of railroad employes.<br />
';'-'" <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE CASUALTIES. <br />
An explosion of gas on December 9 wrecked the<br />
shaft and demolished the upper works of the<br />
Eldorado (111. I Coal & Coke Co.'s mine and hopelessly<br />
entombed four miners. Four others were<br />
rescued at the imminent peril of his life by Mine<br />
Boss Patrick Reed.<br />
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After having been imprisoned for several hours<br />
in a burning shaft of the Woodside Coal Co., near<br />
Springfield, 111., 14 men were rescued. The mine's<br />
top works were totally destroyed, the flames<br />
spreading to the workings below.<br />
oooo<br />
The Sholl coal mine, near Peoria, 111., took flre<br />
last week and the indications are that it will be<br />
destroyed or badly damaged. The 100 men at<br />
work in the mine when the flre was discovered<br />
barely escaped with their lives.<br />
oooo<br />
As the result of an explosion of fire damp in a<br />
coal mine at Burnett, Wash., on December 7. eleven<br />
miners were killed and four fatally hurt.<br />
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The double-decked landing boat of the People's<br />
Coal Co. at Pittsburgh was burned on December 4.<br />
Mine Fire Burned For Twenty-three Years.<br />
The No. 9 colliery of the Lehigh Coal & Navi<br />
gation Co., which was flooded in 1881 in order to<br />
quench a fire which raged in one lift below the<br />
water level and which has been idle ever since,<br />
will shortly resume. A hole has been drilled into<br />
the slump below the old slope and water reached.<br />
A powerful set of engines have been installed to<br />
take care of the water which will be tapped, and<br />
it is expected that the company will in a short<br />
time ship the thousands of tons of loose coal stored<br />
there, giving employment to a small army of additional<br />
hands.<br />
The Maryland Coal Co. has declared a regular<br />
semi-annual dividend of 2% per cent, and an extra<br />
dividend of 2%. per cent, on preferred stock, pay<br />
able December 31. The dividends just declared<br />
make 8 1 - per cent, for the year 1904. In 1903, Sy2<br />
per cent, was paid; in 1902, 7; in 1901, 5y2; in<br />
1900, and 1899, 5; in 1898, 4%.; and in 1897, 4 per<br />
cent.<br />
A 12-foot vein of coal was struck at a depth of<br />
210 feet while drilling for oil near Glenwood, W.<br />
Va.