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46 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
Alabama Consolidated Coal CBt, Iron Co.<br />
Following is a statement regarding the affairs<br />
of the Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron Co.,<br />
which has just passed from Eouthern to Northern<br />
control:<br />
The company was incorporated under the laws<br />
of New Jersey in 1899, and owns and operates<br />
several iron and coal properties in the neighborhood<br />
of Birmingham. Ala. The company's output<br />
per annum is from 150,000 to 180,000 tons, its output<br />
of coke from 250.000 to 275,000 tons and its<br />
output of coal from 600,000 to 650,000 tons. The<br />
acreage of the company's properties is as follows:<br />
Ore lands 10,460 acres; coal lands 35,950 acres and<br />
timber lands 15.749 acres.<br />
Since its <strong>org</strong>anization the conipany has spent<br />
$1,400,000 for improvements designed to increase<br />
the capacity of its plants and reduce the cost of its<br />
products. Of this expenditure. $500,000 was supplied<br />
by a bond issue, and the balance was taken<br />
out of earnings. The development policy of the<br />
company has resulted in the following changes in<br />
the four years since it was <strong>org</strong>anized:<br />
Output. When <strong>org</strong>anized. Now.<br />
Iron tons 65,000 150,000<br />
Coke, tons 85.000 250,000<br />
Coal, tons 200,000 700,000<br />
Home-Seekers' Excursions.<br />
West, Northwest and Southwest via<br />
Pennsylvania Lines.<br />
Excursion tickets will be sold via Pennsylvania<br />
Lines to points West, Northwest and Southwest,<br />
account Home-Seekers' Excursions, during Decem<br />
STRIKES IN FRANCE DURING 1903.<br />
There were 567 strikes in France in 1903 against<br />
512 in 1902. In 416 cases in 1903 the strikers were<br />
<strong>org</strong>anized. Ten unions were <strong>org</strong>anized during<br />
strikes, and three were dissolved in consequence<br />
of strikes. The strikers were successful in 122<br />
cases, involving 12,526 men; 222 strikes were settled<br />
by adjustment, involving 89,736 men; 223<br />
strikes, involving 20.889 men. failed; 10 strikes<br />
lasted more than one hundred days.<br />
In 231 cases of strikes occasioned by demands<br />
for increased wages. 28.508 men lost 531,318 days<br />
of labor, or wages to the amount of $355,626, equal<br />
to $12.47 per capita. After three hundred days of<br />
work, the gross profit accruing to these strikers<br />
would be $418,613, or a net profit of $2.21 for each<br />
striker.<br />
Connellsville Coke Field Purchase.<br />
What is said to be the last strip of Connellsville<br />
coking coal has been taken over by the H. C. Frick<br />
Coal & Coke Co. It embraces 1,000 acres near<br />
Uniontown, North and South Union and Ge<strong>org</strong>e<br />
townships. These holdings belonged to J. V.<br />
Thompson, of Uniontown. Another strip of coal<br />
land containing 83 acres, located in the Klondike<br />
region, and the undivided interest in the Sharon<br />
Coke Co., also held by Mr. Thompson, were purchased<br />
by the Frick company. Included in the<br />
deal were 100 coke ovens. The purchase price<br />
was approximately $900,000. The H. C. Frick<br />
Coal & Coke Co. now holds 42,000 acres of unworked<br />
purely Connellsville coking coal. Besides<br />
this the company owns nearly 25,000 acres<br />
of coal land in the Klondike region.<br />
ber, January, February, March and April. For<br />
full particulars regarding fares, routes, etc., call<br />
on J. K. Dillon, District Passenger Agent, 515 Park Coal has been discovered in the vicinity of Lake<br />
Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.<br />
Baikal, Russia.<br />
£-... Colo At a bargain—Coal property shaft<br />
I UI OdlO. opening, fully equipped with<br />
power and machinery for mining by electricity,<br />
miners houses, railroad switch, excellent shipping<br />
facilities, capacity 500 tons daily, close market for<br />
output, water the entire year. For particulars.<br />
Address, P O Box 245,<br />
•Wellsburg, W. Va.<br />
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The owner of 7,000 acres of coal lands, containing<br />
52-inch out-cropping seam, "wishes to associate<br />
himself with others to buy and develop an additional<br />
22,000 acres of adjoining lands, which also<br />
contain timber, oil, etc., and can be purchased very<br />
cheap. Q.. L. PRESCOTT,<br />
421 W. Oak Street, Louisville, Ky.<br />
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