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18 C O A L A N D T I M B E R January, 1905 THE RUSH ON THE RIVER. By Fred L. Long. speed of 54 miles an hour, a record breaker About six million bushels of coal were sent from the Pittsburg harbor to Cincinnati and cities south on the recent rise in the rivers. The boating stage came after one of the longest suspensions in the history of navigation on the Ohio and ended one of the severest drouths this section of the country has ever known. The coal shipments were made under peculiarly difficult conditions this year, which curtailed the amount sent out about one-half. Rivermen had confidently believed that fully 14,000,000 bushels would get out on this rise but a series of accidents and bad weather conditions prevented this. The long drouth had lowered the water in the Monongahela to such an extent that comparatively little coal had been brought down from Pool No. 4 to the lower harbor and the firstboats out took with them just what was lying in the Davis Island pool awaiting a rise. All the boats in the "BON VOYAGE" K. SIDNEY SMITH in "The Post" bureau struck this section of the country, and all navigation ceased at once. For a time the velocity of the wind reached a for Pittsburg. All that day and part of the night it continued, while great towboats lay helpless at safe landings, not daring to face the waves which were rolling in the river and would have swamped any barge that ever floated in a few minutes. Thursday the wind had died away and navigation was again resumed. An unfortunate accident to the Crescent, of the United Company's fleet,at Merrimans, closed the channel Thursday afternoon, and that day and the next, government employees were busy blowing out the wreckage with dynamite. This caused another lost day and before the wreck had been finally cleared away the rivers were commencing to fall. The Monongahela Company had got out about 3,000,000 bushels, and the other river companies about as much more. By Saturday the coal shipments were done. The rivers had dropped to a point which made towing dangerous. The long shutdown due to the drouth was productive of one good thing, at least. It convinced the rivermen that more decided pressure would have to be brought to bear upon the national legislature to secure the improvement of the Ohio river to a nine-foot stage. The millions of dollars invested in the river coal business had been tied up, unproductive, for months, awaiting a rise in the river which came at last and then left the navigators comparatively helpless, owing to adverse weather conditions. As a result of accidents about 200,000 bushels of fuel was lost on the trip down. Practically all of the rest reached its destination in safety. The value of the cargoes sent out, it is estimated, would run considerably over a half million of dollars. This was a comparatively small sum, however, to what the shippers had at firstcounted upon. The rise was productive of good, also, in permitting resumption at the river mines on the upper Monongahela. Fully 10,U00 men were ordered back to work this week as a result of the stage of water being such as to permit of empty coal boats and barges to be brought up the river All summer over a thousand boats and barges have been lying at various landings along the river. These are now being brought up and distributed at the various coal works. The result on the monetary situation in Western Pennsylvania will be a most important one within the next month. harbor were hurried into service and the work of rushing coal down from the upper pools was carried on night and day. The first boat through the lock at Davis Island the morning of December 26, when the water was at a stage that permitted of shipments being made, was the Tom Rces, with 17 barges. Following the Rees were the Export, Enterprise, George Cook, Ranger, Volunteer, Mary C. Jones and Twilight, all of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Company's fleet. The United Coal Company sent out the Harvester, Flint and Helen White. The Oakland and Crescent, for the same Company followed later. The Gleaner was among the boats sent south by the A. R. —Suit has been filedin the district court Budd Company. Shipments continued briskly Monday and at Trinidad, Colo., by the Victor Fuel Company against the United Mine Workers Tuesday and rivermen were calling it one of America, John Mitchell and 11 other of the nicest rises on record and had high hopes of getting out practically every boat officers of the organization for $941,000 damages alleged to have been sustained by laden in the rivers. Wednesday one of the the Company during the strike of coal heaviest gales in the history of the weather miners. THE EASTERN OHIO DISTRICT. By Emerson Campbell. Wheeling, W. Va., Dec. 31, 1904.—The month of December in the coal fieldsin Eastern Ohio has not proven a prosperous one for either the operator or the miner. With the exception of only a few mines the average time will not exceed one-half, which has made the business very unsatisfactory. The tonnage for the month of December compared with that of 1903 is far short. Some operators sayit has fallen off over one-third with little prospects for improvement for at least two months. The cause is the total inability of the railroads to furnish the mines with cars,- and especially has this been felt by the operators on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Division of the Wabash. This latter road has a large number of new cars ordered and expects them soon, as the railroads have lost much in not being able to take care of their trade. Since the closing of the lake trade some of the operators have had to hunt for new JUPITER PI.UVIUS—"Sammy, it you had watered this plant as you should have done 1 wouldn't have to work during the holidays." Jamison in "Pittsburg Dispatch." markets, and on this account coal is being sold on a very close margin, as the Ohio operators have to compete with the mines of West Virginia, and the latter are able to sell coal very cheap. The coal from this section is now shipped mostly to the west, as follows: Indiana, western Illinois, and Michigan, while a good bulk of it goes to northern and northwestern Ohio. The twenty some mines on the Wheeling and Lake Erie and its system, have only made half time and the greater part of the trouble is on account of not being able to secure cars. On this road the M. A. Hanna Coal Company, which has four mines, and the United States Coal Company, which has ten openings, have fared the best, and can sell all of the coal they can mine. The other operators on this road have had work probably three days a week. The Long Run Mine on this road resumed this week after being idle for almost a year, the
January, 1905 COAL AND TIMBER 19 greater part of the trouble being over a difference with the miners, which has now been settled. On the Wabash and Adena road Troll Brothers' mine has worked more than half time and has been able to mine their full capacity when in operation. The Provident Coal Co., on this same road, has made about half time. The Cleveland and Pittsburgh road have been able to treat the mines better than the other roads, and the half dozen mines on this road in this district have made about two-thirds time. Among the mines that have fared well is the Gaylord Coal Co. That has the W. and L. E. to ship on, giving it two roads and this mine made almost full time. The Yorkville Coal Co. and the Russell Coal Co. at Tiltonsville have done well, considering all. On the main line of the B. and O. west of Bellaire, the mines have suffered the same, and the best record is half time; but they are promised more cars after the first of the year. During the month one strike was reported. This occurred at the Pultney mine of Morgan & Co., south of Bellaire. The company objected to the check weighman that was elected by the miners, and refused to allow him to go on the tipple. The men then went out on a strike, which lasted for two weeks, and was ended by the check weighman that was elected resigning, and the miners electing one that was satisfactory to all. One hundred and forty men were affected. The small operators have been holding conferences in Wheeling for the purpose of establishing a selling agency, or, at least, to agree on a minimum selling price, but the result is not yet known. The new rules adopted by the mine inspectors of the state of Ohio and to be first tried in the Fifth sub-district for the prevention of accidents, has now been in force for one month, and while it is yet early to form conclusions, it is the opinion of the deputy inspectors that it has done much good. J. Edward Johnson, of Columbus, general manager of the Lorain Coal and Dock Co., who have three mines in the district, stated On the C. L. and W. division of the Baltimore and Ohio the operators have suffered much from not being able to get cars. The Lorain Coal and Dock Co., the to your correspondent last week that at Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Co., the the present time the operators were selling largest operators, have not made better than coal on the smallest possible margin, but half time on account of cars. The other that he expected prices soon to advance. mines have suffered from the same cause. The miners' union of the Fifth sub-district of Ohio, including also the Panhandle On this road the mines have been promised better treatment in the way of cars from now on. GOT OUT AHEAD OF OLD BOREAS. O. C. SHIRAS in The "Chronicle Telegraph." district of West Virginia, will hold their annual convention in Bellaire during the early part of February. No scale will be made at this meeting as the present scale will be in effect for one more year. The only business they will have is that regarding the -welfare of the union. The district has 11,000 miners. Thomas L. Lewis, national vice president of the United Mine Workers of America, is ill at his home in Bridgeport with rheumatism. —Mike Kelly has sold his coal interests near Danville, 111., to an eastern syndicate represented by Congressman-elect W. B. McKinley for $3,200,000. The new owners take possession February lst. This is said to be the largest coal deal ever made in the United States. It covers 13,000 acres of land and coal rights and several mines, one of which has the largest output of any in the state. It also includes company stores and miners' cottages. COMPANY TO PAY MORE TAX. Assessment of One Coal Company Increased $400,000—Others Must Pay More Cumberland, Maryland—The Allegheny County Commissioners have summoned before them representatives of all the coal companies in the county, with the view of readjusting the assessment of their property. It was decided to increase the assessment of the Consolidation Coal Company, the largest operator in the county, $400,000. Several companies, which recently opened small veins and which were not on the books, including the Rock Vein Coal Company, were noted for assessment. As a result of the reassessment the county treasury will be enriched by at least $6,000 a year in taxes. Representatives of coal companies, including managers and attorneys, were present, and the matter was amicably arranged. —The extension of a short railroad line from Artemus, Knox County, Kentucky, up Brush Creek in the direction of the Jellico coalfields has again aroused a great deal of interest there. Some say the short line will be used as a connecting link of the proposed Burgin road, which, it is said, is being engineered by the Southern, and the southern terminal of which is to be Jellico, where it will connect with the K. & O., and thence into Knoxville. Notwithstanding the extensive work done in this section by both the Southern and the L. & N. within the last two years, the work in the coalfields through mountain and dale by civil engineers of both roads within the last few months would seem to indicate that the plans of these two Companies are to see which can be first in their attempt to tap every coal vein through the mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee. Cut This Out and Send In With $1.00. Send Express or Postoffice Money Order, or Draft Do Not Send Currency. Subscription "Price of "Coal and Timber" gl.OO Per Annum. Payable in ^/TdtJance Coal and Timber Company, 802 Arrott Building, Pittsburg, Pa.: .1905 The undersigned herewith hands you One Dollar ($1.00) in payment for one year's subscri for " Coal and Timber" beginning with 1905. Co Coal and Timber Co. S02 _/Irrott "Bldg.. Pittsburg. Pa. Name Address
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