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24 COAL AND TIMBER May, 1905 COAL AND COKE MARKETS. the same time supplying the United States be realized. The late season will result in Steel Corporation. The railroads had trouble a heavier summer and fall trade. There is John H. Jones, president of the Pittsburg- Buffalo Coal Co., says that the present year early this spring in securing a sufficiency of cars, but that trouble has been obviated more work to be done this year than ever before in the United States and the coal in coal producton will make a record. He and now the cars will be furnished as fast and coke men will be called upon to furnish says: "This will probably be the greatest year ever known in the coal trade. Everything points to the largest production ever as they are needed. The future of the coal trade in the Pittsburg district could not be better than as we are enabled to view it. fuel. They will be ready and everything will go with a rush from now on. There is not the least doubt about that. I have no made. Last year there was a falling off, The hesitency of the early spring is fast hesitency in saying that I feel sure that I not large, it is true, yet still there was a shrinkage in production. This year, I expect passing away and with all of the blast furnaces running or preparing to be operated, am right when I predict months of unexampled prosperity in the coal and coke a very different story. I would not be at all the demand for fuel is gaining steadily. trade." surprised if the production would reach With uninterrupted traffic facilities we 120,000,000 tons in Pennsylvania alone; 1 should have no difficulty in producing certainly expect that 110,000,000 tons will enough coal to make this the banner year HECLA COMPANY ABSORBED. be mined. Several conditions militated for The Pittsburg Coal Co. This I feel against the production last year and these conditions are not at all likely to be repeated, in fact they hardly can be this year. The lake trade is slow, very slow this year, due to the late opening of navigation. Not in years have the lake vessels been delayed sure that we will do in the coming five months. Prospects for industrial activity in the way of manufacture such as the country has never known are most reassuring at present and they are all pointing to still better things to come. The call for both The Hecla Coke Co., one of the largest ndependent coke interests, has passed from the contral of the Thaw heirs to the H. C. Frick Coke Co. The sale marks the removal of another independent from the path of the United States Steel Corporation. The price as they have been this spring. By the coal and coke is steadily gaining and the said to have been paid for the Hecla company's tenth of May things should be different. By that time all of the lake boats should be in commission and making their regular trips. The ice which blockaded the Soo retarded volume which will be consumed in the next six months bids fair to be far ahead of anything which this country has ever known. The ice at the Soo retarded shipments last properties of all kinds is $2,500,000, or thereabouts. This is at the rate of $2,000 an acre, which the improvements added. The company has three plants in Mt. Pleasant the boats as they have not been for many month not a little, but now this has melted township, of Westmoreland county. years. By May 10th all ice will be gone and the vessels will have cleared the Soo and the straits will be fully open. This dragging delay was very bad for the coal trade and the boats are running on schedule time. In a week or so every coal and ore carrying boat on the lakes will be in commission and will be handling its cargoes as fast as Hecla No. I plant consists of 246 acres of coal and has 56 J /2 acres of surface. No. 2 plant consists of 420 1-3 acres of coal and 131 acres of surface. No. 3 has 359 acres of during last month. Everything was awaiting can be done. The spring trade, though coal and 340 acres of surface. There are for the opening of the lakes and until they opened shipments were the minimum. From now on everything will get more and slow in starting, will gain in volume until it is heavier than ever known before." W. C. Magee, president of the Pickands- 1,072 ovens in operation at the three plants. Nos. 1 and 2 were built about 20 years ago, while No. 2 has been in operation less than more active. There is a good, strong healthy Magee Coke Co., is confident of the future two years. Out of the 30,000 coke ovens demand for coal and it is bound to con of the coal and coke trade in the Pittsburg in the coke region, the H. C. Frick Coke tinue for months. I feel perfectly safe in district and in the country generally. He Co. now has in round numbers 18,000. Of saying that the outlook in the coal trade said: "This season so far, has been what this number 15,748 are in the Connellsville is better than it has been in years. Other you might truthfully call flat. But this region proper and 2.243 in the lower Connellsville things are operating to the advantage of the coal operator. Natural gas is playing out in several places and many manufacturers stagnation is merely temporary. The coke market has hesitated for over a month simply because the. railroads were able to region. The Frick company's out put is probably three-fourths of the entire output of the two regions. are turning again to coal as a staple and relible offer all the cars every one needed. That at fuel. The great Indiana gas fieldhas once caused the consumers to hesitate and seen its best days and the manufacturers delay sending in their orders, they feeling READY TO OPERATE. who have depended upon it for their supply that they could get coal and coke when and The plant of the Glen Easton Coal Co. are again making preparations, or have how they pleased. Of course when cars are of Moundsville, W. Va., has been practically completed and the mining of coal is made arrangements, for their supply of coal plenty, the output of the ovens regulates as fuel. Washington, Pa., and East Liverpool, O., manufacturers are also turning to ited in supply, the prices are fixed accord the prevailing prices. When cars are lim to begin at once. The boiler and engine house are of brick and are complete and the coal because the gas fieldswhich they have ingly. Owing to a great abundance of cars, machinery has been installed. An immense been depending upon are failing them. Generally all conditions are such as to make own time to order, with the result that the manufacturers and consumers took their fan has been set up, the fan house having been finishedabout the 10th of last month. the future big with promise for the coal market became very flat throughout April. The frame work for the tipple was assembled and the stone foundations for the load operators." Things are different now. May will see a "The Pittsburg Coal Co.," said an official great change, and in June the market will ing tipples and the screens is almost complete. It will not be long before the two of this great concern to a representative of be even stronger than in May. Operators Coal and Timber, "never confronted such a have, quite naturally, hesitated in beginning stages will be ready to hoist coal. Foundation work for the superstructure is fin bright future. Everything seems good to new undertakings and have not tried to supply more than the demand. With the us. While the coal trade has been quiet ished. A tramway has been built across this spring, and April was particularly so, re-opening of lake navigation, which this the ravine and the fillupon which the railroad switch is laid is being widened to per year has been very late, everything will the future is bright with promise. The lak; trade has been quite slow opening up, but fast resume the normal and general conditions the country over warrant the assertion mit double tracking. The water supply will from now on it will develop remarkable be obtained from a large reservoir which strength. By the middle of this month, I that the spring and summer of 1905 will has been erected near the plant. When the look for operations as large as we have ever be better for the coal and coke operators buildings are all completed and the machinery installed it will be one of the had. Pittsburg Coal Co. has secured several than they have ever known before. We large contracts in the Northwest and we expect to be kept very busy filling them and at hope for good things this year and feel quite confident that our expectations will best equipped coal mining plants in that part of West Virginia.
May, 1905 COAL AND TIMBER WAGE SCALE SIGNED. Operators and miners of the Central Pennsylvania bituminous district reached an agreement as to the scale for next year on April 4th, at Altoona, Pa. The scale, which is the same as that adopted for 1903 and 1904, will run until March 31, 1906. The names of those who signed this important agreement follow: Operators' committee: James Kerr, chairman, James Coryell, Lucius W. Robinson, R. A. Shillingford, J. R. Irish, W. A. Lathrop, Robert H. Kay, Fred. G. Betts, C. B. Maxwell, and George E. Scott, secretary. Miners' committee: William Currie, secretary, John Sullivan, George Bassett, W. S. Davidson, George Sinclair, George McMillin, W. E. Patterson, William Slee, Patrick Gilday, president Dist. No. 2, Edward Mc Kay, national organizer, Charles Keenan, and J. D. Bateman. The terms of the scale, the same as •that of 1903 and 1904, follow: That the pick mining price shall be sixty (60) cents per gross ton. That machine loading shall be five-ninths (5-9) of the pick mining rate, plus one-half (',
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