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34 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Mr. H. A. Cochran, assistant coal and coke agent
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, with headquarters
at Cleveland, has been promoted to the position
of coal freight agent and will make his future
home in this city. Mr. Cochran will be succeeded
by Mr. C. R. Wright, who has been holding
the position of chief clerk to the coal and coke
agent, and Mr. J. H. Baker, traveling coal freight
agent, has been made chief clerk to the coal and
coke agent of the road at Cleveland.
Mr. Francis H. Shepherd, of Nanaimo, B. C,
chief inspector of mines for British Columbia, recently
took the prescribed course at the United
States Mine Rescue training station, at Seattle.
Wash. The station has been closed for some time.
but the director of the U. S. Bureau of Mines ordered
the necessary arrangements made to allow
Mr. Shepherd to take the regulation training
course.
Mr. J. R. Roaf. who has been in charge of the
Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co.'s engineering department
at the Coal Creek and Michel collieries, and
coke ovens at Fernie and Michel. British Columbia,
has resigned, and gone to one of the new coal
districts near Edmonton. Alberta.
Mr. O. P. Hood, head of the department of mechanical
and electrical engineering at the Michigan
College of Mines, has been appointed chief
mechanical engineer of the United States Bureau
of Mines. He took up his headquarters in Pittsburgh
in September.
Mi. J. H. Moran. of the O'Gara Coal Co., Chicago,
has been assigned to the Chicago office as
assistant general sales manager. For the last
nine years he has been in charge of the Illinois
territory for the same corporation.
Mr. R. L. Green, who has been connected for
the last seven years with the Chicago office of the
Sunday Creek Co., leaves that concern this date
to manage the new Detroit office of the Lackawanna
Coal & Lumber Co.
Mr. Thomas Hall, aged 63 years, a wealthy coal
operator at Chandler, Ind., was adjudged insane
by a commission Sept. 22. Hall has a delusion
that he is to be executed for the commission of
some imaginary crime.
Mr. D. T. Price, general manager of the Brothers
Valley Coal Co., has moved his family from
Baltimore to Berlin, Pa., taking apartments at
the Hotel Berlin.
AUGUST LAKE LEVELS.
The United States Lake Survey reports the
stages of the Great Lakes for the month of August,
1911, as follows:
Feet Above
Lakes. Tidewater, New York.
Superior 602.15
Michigan-Huron 579.83
Erie 571.62
Ontario 245.19
Lake Superior is 0.51 feet higher than last
month, 0.18 feet higher than a year ago, 0.71 feet
below the average stage of August of the last 10
years, 1.78 feet below the high stage of August,
1876, and 0.55 feet above the low stage of August,
1879. It will probably rise 0.1 feet during September.
Lakes Michigan-Huron are O.05 feet lower than
last month, 0.49 feet lower than a year ago, 1.33
feet below the average stage of August of the last
10 years, 3.68 feet below the high stage of August,
1S76, and 0.05 feet below the low stage of August,
1S96. They will probably fall 0.2 feet during September.
Lake Erie is 0.13 feet lower than last month, 0.60
feet lower than a year ago. 1.08 feet below the
average stage of August of the last 10 years, 2.49
feet below the high stage of August. 1876. and
0.24 feet above the low stage of August, 1895. It
will probably fall 0.3 feet during September.
Lake Ontario is 0.35 feet lower than last month,
0.86 feet lower than a year ago, 1.45 feet lower
than the average stage of August of the last 10
years, 3.07 feet below the high stage of August,
1862, and 0.84 feet above the low stage of August,
1895. It will probably fall 0.4 feet during September.
The O'Gara Coal Co., Chicago, has put into operation
its No. 11 mine at El Dorado, 111., which has
a producing capacity of 1,200 tons daily, and No.
3. at Harrisburg, which can hoist 2,500 tons. It
has in contemplation the early starting of three
more operations. The present output is about
20.000 tons per day. with mines running nearly
full time. It has purchased two more Morgan-
Gardner motors, six and 10 tons respectively, and
the same firm is installing electric haulage at one
of the company's large operations at Harrisburg,
111.
A petition in bankruptcy has been filed by H.
P. Dilworth, of Pittsburgh, who was the organizer
and chief owner of the Dilworth Coal Co., with
mines and acreage near Rice's Landing, Pa., on
the Monongahela river. Liabilities are given as
$713,047, and assets as $205,401, mostly in notes
of the coal company.