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42 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
COKE PRODUCTION FOR FIRST HALF OF 1911.
The production of coke in the Connellsville re­
gion for the first half of 1911, according to figures
compiled from the Connellsville Courier reports,
was 7,750,634 tons, as compared with 10,954,949
tons for the same period in 1910. The statistics
for the six months were:
Week
Ovens in
Ending. Ovens. Blast.
Jan. 7. . . . 39,336 22,540
Jan. 14 39,474 22,630
Jan. 21 39,423 22,633
Jan. 2S. . . . 39,431 23,832
Feb. 4. . . . 39,605 24,741
Feb. 11 39,617 25,873
Feb.
26,231
Feb. 25 . . 39,617 26,160
Mar. 4. . . . 39,617 26,541
Mar. 11 . . . . 39,617 27,148
Mar. 18. . . . 39,617 28,115
Mar. 25. . . . 39,617 28,337
April 1 39,617 28,385
April s. . . . 39,399 28,514
April 15... . . 39,399 28,427
April 22 . . 39,399 20,297
April 29. . . . 39,399 26,13(1
May i; 39,399 25,180
May 13 39,399 24,612
May
39,399 24,332
May 27. . . . 39,399 24,214
June
39,399 24,080
June 10 39,399 23,754
June 17 39,399 23,604
June 24 39,399 23,616
Ovens
Idle.
16,796
16,842
16,760
15,509
14,864
13,744
13,386
13,457
13,076
12,469
11,502
11,280
11,232
10,885
10.972
13,102
13,269
14.219
14,787
15,067
15,185
15,319
15.645
15,795
15,783
Tons.
281,885
280,320
287,475
291.705
302,275
323,333
322,756
339,388
352,077
357,471
364,596
371,255
368,029
362,769
349,475
312,942
300,540
280,367
278,037
273.108
270,749
269.256
266,646
271,088
273,422
ENGINEER OFFICERS MAKES
FAVORABLE REPORT ON CANAL.
That the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal
will cost $60,000,000 instead of $50,000,000 is the
opinion of Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Newcomer,
United States Army Engineer Officer at Pittsburgh,
expressed in a special report upon this
project, recently made at the request of the Xational
Waterways Commission. ISut, despite this
estimate of increased cost, Colonel Newcomer declares
the project feasible; says the tonnage is
in existence to make it a paying proposition;
approves the idea of government engineers supervising
its construction, and even suggests that
the government might go further and provide
part of the funds for construction and maintenance,
for, says Colonel Newcomer, "there can be
no doubt that the work would lie of national im­
portance."
As to the tonnage that awaits a ship canal,
the officer says: "There is no other route in the
country where the existing commerce is so fav­
orable for the development of a heavy canal
traffic."
The only question as to the feasibility of the
project is the one affecting freight rates, according
to Colonel Newcomer. He expresses the fear
that the construction of the canal would result
in lowering railroad freight rates to a point where
the great bulk of coal and ore would continue to
be shipped by rail, in which event there might
not be sufficient commerce on the canal to provide
a revenue commensurate with the expense
of the work.
TEXT OF AGREMENT BETWEEN DOMINION
COAL COMPANY AND MINERS AT SPRING-
HILL, NOVA SCOTIA.
The text of the agreement between the Dominion
Coal Co. and the miners at Springhill, N. S.,
whereby the 20 months strike was settled is:
1. All the men will be taken back to work at
Springhill as soon as places can be found for them.
It is confidently believed that the majority of the
men can be provided with work within 45 days,
and every reasonable effort will be made on the
part of the company to accomplish this sooner.
2. That the award of the Longley board in re­
gard to the docking system will go into effect on
June 1 next, but this can be mutually adjusted
after trial if considered desirable.
3. There will be no reduction in the wages of
the day hands in and around the mines in the rate
paid prior to the loth of August, 1909, and any advances
in the schedule dated January 26, 1911, shall
remain in force.
4. That the reduction of 15 per cent, announced
by Mr. J. R. Cowans and authorized on January 20,
1911, by the Dominion Coal Co. in the rate paid
coal producers immediately prior to the 10th of
August, 1909, be reduced to lo per cent., and in
any part of the mine where, owing to conditions of
the working place, a cutter is unable to earn his
average wage, fair consideration will be allowed,
and such consideration may be altered from time
to time to meet conditions as they arise.
5. Coal cutters shall not be required to carry
timber or other material necessary to work at the
working face, such material to be supplied at the
most convenient place near the working face of
the boards or pillars by the company, except in
special cases or cases of emergency.
6. Every man will be accorded his right to present
any just grievances to his immediate superior
with a right of appeal ultimately to the president,
and at any stage for that purpose he may be accom­
panied by one or two of his fellow-workmen frcm
the section in which the alleged grievance exists.
Agnes Coulter, of Bolivar, Pa., recently sold 120
aci es of coal land to the Lacolle Coal Mining
Co., of Greensburg, Pa., for the sum of $18,348.75.