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argo by the roads running to the Hudson river
has been the long delay in getting cars returned.
To add to the difficulties in the New England
trade, the coastwise traffic has been interrupted
by storms. Quite a number of coal-loaded schooners
are reported wrecked or damaged. This is especially
the case with vessels bound for Cape Cod
and beyond. In Chicago and other Western territory
the demand has been improved by the cold
weather, but there is delay in shipments and deliveries
of coal, owing to short supply of cars, and
snow on the railroads. New York harbor trade
is steady, the only change being an increased demand
for steam sizes, which tends to improve the
market. Prices continue unchanged.
Hull, Blyth & Co., of London and Cardiff, report
that the tone of the market maintains a
steady position with the following quotations:
Best Welsh steam coal, $3.48; seconds, $3.30;
thirds, $3.12; dry coals, $3.18; best Monmouthshire,
$3.06; seconds, $3.00; best small steam coal,
$1.92; seconds. $1.80; other sorts, $1.68.
Andrew Carnegie, in his paper before the National
Civic Federation said, in discussing the
strike question: "I am told that a contractor
building a residence in New York employs men
from no less than 38 different trades unions. In
recent years one or more of these have been constantly
at war. Seldom are the 38 all enjoying
industrial peace. Saddest of all sights, it is often
against each otner, union against union, that war
is waged. Union fighting must surely give the
great fiend exhilarating rapture."
* * *
R. S. Dorough, a deputy sheriff stationed at
the Sloss-Sheffield Co.'s mines at Blossburg, Ala., at
which there has been a strike for several months,
was decoyed into an ambush and seriously
wounded, presumably by striking miners, who were
armed with shotguns. Both the company and the
state government have offered rewards for the
arrest and conviction of the perpetrators of the
outrage.
* * *
Sixty foreign miners have been sent from
Uniontown, Pa., to the Leiter mines at Ziegler,
111. It is said the men were given extra inducements
and promised steady work. Joseph Leiter
has announced that he has 300 men at work and
that he is having no trouble obtaining men as
fast as they are needed.
* • •
The strike of the miners at the Century Coal
plant at Tower Hill, 111., involving 300 men, has
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been settled by a committee consisting of state
officials, the United Mine Workers of America and
the coal company. The operators agreed to pay
the Pana scale.
* * *
The strike of the Tennessee union coal miners
and mine employes has continued over six months.
The employing companies involved have largely
resumed operations on the open-shop basis but the
strikers continue to hold out in the face of certain
defeat.
* * *
The last weekly report of M. B. Evans, who is
organizing the miners and coke workers of the
Connellsville field, shows that four locals have
been chartered and that the organization in the
coke fields now has a membership of 5,000.
* * *
Hundreds of miners are returning to Long Run
and Ramsey, in the lower part of Jefferson county,
O. The abandoned mines there are to be reopened
and fully 500 men will be employed during the rest
of the winter.
* * *
The one hundred and forty miners employed at
the mine of the Pultney Coal Co., at their mine
South of Bellaire, O.. struck because their employers
refused to admit a new check weighman to
the tipple.
* * *
Several of the coal mines of the Sharon Coal &
Limestone Co. at Leesburg and Slipery Rock, Pa.,
have resumed operations after a shutdown of
nearly a year.
SOO CANAL REPORT.
The total traffic through the Sault Ste. Marie
canal for the season of 1904 was 31,546.106 tons
as against 34,674,437 tons for 1903, 35,961,146 tons
for 1902, which was the highest on record, and
28,403,065 tons for 1901. The commerce of 1904,
therefore, shows a decrease of 3,128,331 tons as
compared with 1903 and 4,415,040 tons as compared
with 1902. It shows, however, an increase
of 3,103,041 tons as compared with 1901, which
distributed over the three years that have elapsed
since 1901, would mean an increase of 1,000,000
tons per annum. Considering the brevity of the
lake season of 1904, the showing is regarded as a
good one. The figures on coal passing through
the canal are as follows:
1902. 1903. 1904.
Anthracite, net tons. 309,948 1,149,005 991,228
Bituminous, net tons.4,502.530 5,7SS,628 5,463,641
Totals 4,812,478 6,937,633 6,454,869