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1. The inside employees and bosses, who
should not load impurities, or
2. The outside force, who have the daylight
and ought to clean the coal.
In answer to the above question, I would suggest
that the inside and outside officials work in
harmony at all times, inside men endeavoring
to keep all the impurities out of the car.
It would be a good thing for the operation if
the outside and inside officials would meet frequently
and discuss the affairs of the mines.
This would work to a better understanding and
would, no doubt, result in good for all concerned.
NEW PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY THE
UNITED STATES BUREAU OF MINES.
The following publications are now ready for
distribution by the United States Bureau of Mines:
BTJLLETTN.
Bulletin 13. Resume of producer-gas investigations,
by R. H. Fernald and C. D. Smith. 1911.
378 pp., 12 pis.
MIXERS' CIRCULAR.
Miners' Circular 5. Electrical accidents in
mines; their prevention and treatment, by H. H.
Clark. 1911.
REPRINTS.
Bulletin 24. Binders for coal briquets, by J. E.
Mills. 56 pp. Reprint of United States Geological
Survey Bulletin 323. Copies will not be sent to
persons who received Bulletin 343.
Bulletin 28. Experimental work conducted in
the chemical laboratory of the United States fueltesting
plant, St. Louis, Mo., January 1, 1905, to
July 31, 1906. Reprint of United States Geological
Survey Bulletin 323. Copies will not me sent to
persons who received Bulletin 323.
Bulletin 27. Tests of coal and briquets as fuel
for house-heating boilers, by D. T. Randall. 45 pp.,
3 pis. Reprint of United States Geological Survey
Bulletin 366. Copies will not be sent to persons
who received Bulletin 366.
Bulletin 35. The utilization of fuel in locomotive
practice, by W. F. M. Goss. 28 pp. Reprint
of United States Geological Survey Bulletin 402.
Copies will not be sent to persons who received
Bulletin 402.
The Bureau of Mines has copies of these publications
for free distribution, but cannot give more
than one copy of the same bulletin to one person.
Requests for all papers cannot be granted without
satisfactory reason. In asking for publications
please order them by number and title. Applications
should be addressed to the Director of the
Bureau of Mines, Washington, D. C.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 43
LABOR NOTES
Frank Smith, Alexander Rice and Joseph Benivitch,
employed in mine No. 6 of the Pittsburgh
Terminal Railroad & Coal Co.. Bruceton, Pa., have
been committed to jail by Alderman James V. Mr-
Masters of Pittsburgh for a hearing, charged with
violating the state mining laws. The men are
said to have walked by a danger sign in the mine.
The infoimations were made by State Mine Inspector
James I. Spratt.
Chief Mine Inspector Nesbitt of Alabama, who
has been taking a census of the mine workers of
the state, reports that there are 242 coal mines in
Alabama of sufficient size to be classed as commercial
operations. The miners number 20,156, and
it is stated that the number is inadequate in active
periods like tbe present, as reports of labor shortages
are had from various mining communities.
Luke F. Lanham, who last summer succeeded to
the presidency of No. 17 district of the United
Mine Workers of America, when Ben Davis resigned
and engaged in other business at Montgomery,
has resigned. James E. Craigo. who became
vice president when Lanham took the presidency,
has become president for the remainder of
the term, until April 1 next.
On November 9, at Windber, Pa., 100 employes
of the Berwind-White Coal Mining Co. were presented
with diplomas of efficiency in first aid work
by the American Red Cross. The presentation
address was made by Burgess Dr. J. W. Hawes,
and other speakers were General Manager W. A
Calverly and Chief Engineer E. A. Delaney, of the
company.
The auditors of the United .Mine Workers of
America are at Indianapolis auditing the accounts
of the Irwin, Pa., strike relief fund.
COAL LAND SALES FROM RECORDS
Loren N. Wood of Mt. Vernon, 111., has sold 7,00(
acres of Jefferson county coal lands to the Big
Muddy Coal syndicate of New York. The purchase
price exceeds a quarter of a million dollars.
W. D. Cotterel and Harry Taylor, of Waynesburg,
Pa., have purchased from George Hennen, 109,321
acres of coal in Gilmore township, Greene county.
Pa.; consideration, $14,758.33.
Alvey Gregory has sold to W. Howard of Barboursville,
Ky.. 150 acres of coal in the Fourmile
district of Bell county, Ky., for $0,500.
AV. Howard of Barboursville, Ky., has sold to
the Wilhoit Coal Co.. 175 acres of coal in Bell
county, Ky., for $8,000.