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41 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
day filled to a depth of over 100 feet. No fatalities
• PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS • were reported. The Port Hood mines are operated
by the Port Hood Coal Co. The company em­
The Lehigh Valley Coal Co. has just closed its ployed 600 men and had a daily output of 1,000
schools for mine workers for the season. The tons.
company maintains two of these—one at Centralia,
one at Lost Creek. In the Centralia school, The Interstate Commerce Commission has au­
139 students were enrolled at the end of the term; thorized the rate on coke from Pennsylvania and
in the Lost Valley, 103. Since the students, min­ West Virginia points to Chicago at $2.50 per ton.
ers and shopworkers, old and young, are drawn Formerly the coke carrying roads had in effect
froin all nationalities, one of the first ideas of the a rate of $2.35 on coke to Chicago for smelting
schools is to teach English. The other courses purposes and a rate of $2.65 on coke for all other
are as nearly as possible substitutes for the tech­ purposes, exception was taken to the "average"
nical education obtained in colleges, although rate of $2.50, but the I. C. C, after investigation,
necessarily much elementary work must be done. has approved of it.
The State Railroad Commission of Ohio will
appeal to the United States Supreme Court from
the decision of Federal Court of Appeals in case
of B. A. Worthington, receiver of the Wheeling
& Lake Erie, against Ohio Railroad Commission.
The commission, in an order in February, 1910,
reduced freight rates on coal shipments from
points in Ohio to the Lakes from 90 to 70 cents
a ton. The receiver of Wheeling & Lake Erie enjoined
an enforcement of this order. A permanent
injunction was granted, and the finding has
been sustained by the Court of Appeals.
The Anthracite Mine Cave Commission, appointed
by Governor John K. Tener of Pennsylvania,
to consider the problems of surface settlings
which confront the hard coal sections of Pennsylvania,
has been organized. W. J. Richards, of
Pottsville, was chosen chairman; George Lewis,
secretary, and C. B. Stevens, clerk. The commission
is comprised of former Mayor J. B. Dimmick,
W. L. Connell, Col. R. A. Phillips', and E. J. Lynett
of Scranton. Pa.; W. A. Lathrop and Charles Enzian
of Wilkes-Barre; W. J. Richards of Pottsville,
and George Lewis of Lansford, Pa.
At the annual meeting of the Coal Operators'
Association of the Fifth and Ninth districts of
Illinois, held at the Missouri Athletic Club in St.
Louis, Mo., recently, all of the present officers and
members of the executive committees were reelected
as follows: President, R. W. Ropiequet;
vice president, Thomas T. Brewster; secretary,
F. F. Tirre; and treasurer. J. E. Yoch. The executive
committee comprises: E. C. Donk, P. M.
Hucke. D. F. Cameron, Thomas Jeremiah, Louis F.
Lumaghi, Otto Michaelis, J. P. Reese and J. E. Rutledge.
The Port Hood coal mines at Sydney, C. B.,
Canada, have been flooded with sea water, causing
a probable total loss of the property. The
main shaft of the mine is only a short distance
from the sea, and it is supposed that the constant
wear of the waves broke through the retaining
walls of the mine pit, where water to­
The Dakota Coal Products Co. is opening up the
lignite deposits at New Salem, N. D., on a rather
extensive scale. Development work was begun
last fall and has been carried on continuously since
then, slopes have been sunk to two seams, the
lowest of which is at a depth of 105 feet. It is
expected that everything will be in readiness to
commence commercial shipments late in the Slimmer.
Mr. John A. Bell, vice president of the Colonial
Trust Co., Pittsburgh, has acquired 4,500 acres of
coal in Cross creek township, Washington county,
Pa., and has plans in preparation for developing
the property. The mine will be a shaft mine, it
is reported, and will have all modern improvements.
The Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Industrial
Reformatory, Huntingdon, Pa., have advertised
for bids for 5,500 tons of bituminous coal,
the bids to be in by July 14, and the contract to
be awarded July 15. T. B. Patton, general superintendent,
will furnish all information.
P. M. Boyle, of Kingston, Pa., mine inspector
of the eighth anthracite district of Pennsylvania,
died on June 22. He was 62 years of age, and
previous to becoming an inspector had been a
mine official in the vicinity of Wilkes-Barre.
The general offices of the Luhrig Coal Washery
& Mining Co. will be removed from Charleston,
W. Va., to Athens, O., and after July 1, will be
located in the Campbell block, in the suite of offices
formerly occupied by the Sunday Creek Co.
Claude S. Wetherill is erecting a new retail
plant at Doylestown, Pa., one feature of which
will be a boiler and pipes for thawing out cars
of frozen coal in the winter, as is done at the
shipping piers.
Miners of the Monongahela valley held their
annual muster at Bellevernon on June 24. Officers
of the United Mine Workers or America and
of the coal companies were in attendance.