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22 COAL AND TIMBER June, 1905
—James R. Woodburn has sold the coal
underlying a tract of 150 acres of coal land
in Washington county, Pa., for $5,000.
—The Fairmont Coal Co., of Fairmont,
W. Va., is making improvements in its
plants that will cost from $200,000 to $250 -
000.
—Former Police Captain John W. Bell, of
Pueblo, Colo., has discovered a wide vein
of the best lignite about six miles west of
Junkins Park.
—The Amsterdam Coal Co., of Cleveland,
O., has reduced its capital stock from $200,-
000 to $10,000. F. M. Osborne is president
of the concern.
—The Ellsworth Coal Co. has purchased
the coal under the farm of Mrs. Rosanna
Mankey, in Somerset township, Washington
county, for $300 an acre.
J. Leslie Francis, of Perryopolis., Pa., sold
about 7,000 acres of coal land in Braxton
county, W. Va., to the Wabash Coal Co.,
the consideration being about $100,000.
—The Alabama Mineral division of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, passing
through some of the richest land in the
South, is open for traffic of all kinds.
—The Secretary of State of West Virgnia
has authorized the increase of the
capital stock of Stewart's Creek Coal Co.,
Uniontown, Pa., from $240,000 to $300,000.
—C. C. Wolfe and J. N. Montgomery, of
Claysville, Pa., have bought 433 acres of
coal land in Donegal township, Washington
county, Pa., for $33 an acre.
—The extent of China's coal fieldshas
been estimated at 400,000 square miles, more
than 70 times the aggregate extent of all
of the coal fieldsof Great Britain.
—Farmers of Roberts Ridge, Marshall
county, W. Va., have sold about 1,300 acres
of coal lands to Pennsylvania capitalists for
a uniform consideration of $30 per acre.
—The Geneva Coke Co., the Sunshine
Coal and Coke Co., and the Riverview Coal
and Coke Co., all operating in the lower
Connellsville region, have installed new coal
washers.
—Farmers of Belmont, O., about five
miles east of Barnesville, will receive $600,-
000 for 30,000 acres of coal lands which have
been purchased at the uniform price of $20
an acre.
—George H. Ramsay, of Oskaloosa, la.,
has purchased 500 acres of coal land in
Mahaska county, la., from the Williams
brothers of Beacon, the consideration being
$44,155.
—Weakland brothers, of Meyersdale, Pa.,
have secured another contract for the erection
of 250 coke ovens for the United States
Steel Corporation on the Tug river in West
Virginia.
—Kanawha county, West Virginia, in the
year ending, June 30, 1904, produced 2,792,-
078 tons of coal, this record placingit third
among the coal producing counties of that
State.
—A company of eastern capitalists are
about to develop lands of the Eastern Railway
and Lumber Co., in Washington, near
Centralia, and several shafts are to be sunk
at once.
—J. D. Porter, of Summit Mines, Pa., sold
a tract of coal of fiveacres of Connellsville
coking co;il to J. S. Bryner, E. L. Marietta
and Henry Hetzel, of Connellsville, for $800
an acre.
—The Miners' strike which has been in
progress in the Meyersdale, Pa., district
since December 15. 1903, has been called
off at last by the United Mine Workers of
America.
OF COURSE!
Drawn for "Coal and TimfJeTT*"
Scanlon: "Egan '1 break his neck soom
day. He's always droppin' down the shaft.
What's the matter wid him?"
Haggerty: "He inherits it—his
both died av dropsy."
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—Expenditures aggregating about $250,-
000 are being made on Walden's Ridge,
three miles south of Harriman, Tenn., by
the Domestic Coal Co., composed of Alabama
capitalists.
—A contract has been let to Christman
& Co., of Massillon, O., to sink a prospecting
shaft to the Atchison 40-inch coal vein
about three miles west of the present mine
near Atchison, Kas.
—S. H. Cauffiel, acting for the Kennerly
Coal and Coke Co., has purchased from
David M. Hammer, of Somerset county,
Pa., 424 acres of coal land paying for the
same $42,555.62.
—The Bloomfield Coal and Mining Co., of
Iowa, has awarded contracts for the manufacture
of mining machinery which will be
used to develop a large area of coal land
near Des Moines, la.
—R. O. Thomas, superintendent of the
Kendall Coal & Coke Co., which recently
secured a lease on the old Tyrone plant at
Broad Ford, Pa., has the work of reconstructing
the works well under way.
-The Quemahoning Coal Co., which
owns and operates about 3,000 acres of coal
land in the Quemahoning Valley and which
has a daily capacity of about 800 tons, has
placed an order for 400 new coal cars.
—The Sligo Coal and Coke Co., of Butler,
Pa., has given an option for the sale of the
coal and coke plant owned by the company
on the Allegheny Valley railroad, to F. W.
Williamson and others, of Buffalo, N. Y.
—Another attempt is being made to introduce
anthracite coal into Europe and
with improved economical burners it is believed
thatit can be demonstrated that hard
coal can be successfully marketed in the
old world.
— For the year there have been shipped
over the Pennsylvania railroad east of
Pittsburg and Erie 1, 447, 683 tons of anthracite,
8,960,278 tons of bituminous and 3,549,-
166 tons of coke, an increase over the same
period of last year.
—The Maple Hill Coal Co., the W. J.
Hamilton Coal Co. and the Twentieth Century
Coal Co., of Ohio, have combined their
interests, and their mines having a daily
output of 2,000 tons will be handled by the
Hamilton Coal Co.
—W. E. Leake, of Birmingham, Ala., and
Judge Peyton Norvell, of Walker county,
Tenn., have purchased a large acreage of
coal lands near Prospect and Nauvoe, Walker
county, where several coal mines will be
opened in their 5,000 acre tract.
—George L. and John G. Hibbs, of Fayette
county. Pa., have sold to Walter
Runyon. of New York, a 236-acre tract of
coal land near Brownsville. Pa., for $238.-
140, a top notch price for coal lands in that
part of Fayette county.
-The Clark Coal & Coke Co., organized
two years ago by Pittsburg capitalists and
owning large coal tracts in Butler county,
Pa., has increased its capital stock from
$200,000 to $500,000 wdth a view of developing
the fieldby the erection of coke ovens.
—Robert H Sayre, president of the Sayre
Mining & Manufacturing Co., which is developing
the North Jefferson county, Ala.,
coal fields,reports that his company has expended
$200,000 cash in the new enterprise
and now has 100 coke ovens in operation
and ten drifts opened.
—E. L. Hampton has sold and transferred
to the Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co. the
property which he recently purchased from
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co.,
consisting of all the coal mines, coke ovens,
stores, machine shops, etc., in and around
Tracy City, Tenn.