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24 COAL AND TIMBER January, 1905
— -The Hadley mines on Four Mile, in
Lincoln county, W. Va., have put on an
increased force and are now ready to ship
coal. The mines on the west side of the
Guyan river at Hadley have changed
hands and are now owned by the Steinberger
Coal Company. Forty miners are
now at work and the new company expects
to put on additional men.
—The Alpha Coal Mining Company,
Plymouth, W. Va., are now ready to ship.
This company has been working night and
day since the firstof July, 1904, driving entries,
building trestles, tipples, houses,
stores, grading for railroad, etc., until now
it is prepared to ship about 300 tons per
day. This is considered remarkably rapid
work.
—The Secretary of State of West Virginia
has issued certificates of incorporation
to the Pennmont Coal Company of
Baltimore, Md., for the purpose of dealing
in coal lands and mining coal. Capital
stock, $5,000. Incorporators, L. Walter
Lord, Charles H. Schanze, Edward M.
Lerp, Harvey H. Wilson and Louis Lotters,
all of Baltimore, Md.
—The J. W. Mahan Lumber Company
of Mahan, W. Va., which has been idle
for the last six weeks on account of
scarcity of logs, has a supply on hand now
and more are being collected for a splash.
When this is accomplished it will, with
what is already in Paint Creek, produce
10,500,000 feet of lumber and a continuous
run for the next eight months.
—The mines at Junior, Barbour County,
W. Va., owned and controlled by the Davis
Colliery Company, have again resumed
active operation after an enforced idleness
of six months. Work at these mines was
suspended last May on account of the poor
condition of the coal and coke trade. The
ovens are now in blast, and the mines will
be worked to their full capacity.
—W. F. Taylor, president of the Meadow
Mountain Lumber Company, Fairndsville,
Md., has just purchased 20.000 acres of timber
land at Haurer, on the Coal & Iron
extension of the West Virginia Central railway,
from Mohen and Flaurer. The tract
is fivemiles north of Durbin. Mr. Taylor
has commenced the installation of a plant
to handle from fifteen to twenty cars of
lumber a day.
—The Kanawha & Eastern Railway
Company is the name of a new coal road
recently chartered in West Virginia. The
new company will connect with the Kanawha
& Michigan Railway at Plymouth,
Putnam county, W. Va., and run east for
several miles, giving the Alpha Coal Mining
Co., the Plymouth Coal and Mining
Company and others, rail connections with
the Kanawha & Michigan.
—The Secretary of State for West Virginia
has issued a certificate of incorporation
to the Plaitino Mining & Manufacturing
Company, of Waynesburg, Pa., for the
purpose of mining and dealing in coal and
mining fire clay and manufacturing fire
bricks, etc. Capital stock, $100,000. Incorporators,
J. A. Dunne, J. D. Orndoff, W. E.
Spragg, James E. Wood, W. H. Bailey,
D. S. Hoover and H. C. Staggers, all of
Waynesburg, Pa.
— It is estimated that on the firstopen
day more than 5,000,000 bushels of coal
passed out of the Kanawha river into the
Ohio on its way to Cincinnati and the
Southern market. This is the largest run
that ever left the Kanawha. The coal had
been lying at the mouth of the river for
weeks awaiting a boating stage and fearing
that in case of a freeze both the coal and
barges would be a total loss, the owners
had appealed to the United States engineers
for assistance.
--The work on the big coal works of
Lewis Findley & Co., at Colliers, W. Va.,
is in rapid progress, there being a large
force of men at work, and the weather has
been most favorable for making the outside
improvements. The mines are now
dumping on an average of 200 tons of coal
per day, which is all used for coaling engines
on the Panhandle, but as soon as the improvements
are completed they will mine
hundreds of tons for shipment, making
Colliers one of the most important coaling
places upon the road. The big improvements
consist in the erection of a large
Coal tipple with all modern appliances for
running and unloading coal into cars. At
the mines, railroad tracks and sidings are
being built and last but not least in these
improvements is the bridge over Harmon
Creek. The bridge is being built upon concrete
block piers.
OHIO
OHIO MINE STATISTICS.
machinery. According to the charter
COLUMBUS, O.—Labor Commissioner
obtained by the company, the right is
Ratchford has issued the following figures
granted to deal in coke, clay and the disposing
of coal either by wholesale or retail.
on coal mining investigations:
Number of mines reporting, 575; increase,
The matter of building a railroad switch to
42; number employed (monthly average),
the mines is now under advisement by the
36,460; increase, 5,880; number superintendents,
salesmen and office help (monthly
Company officials and the railroad interests.
The entrance to the mine is through s
average). 901; increase, 168; capital invested
in grounds, buildings and machinery,
tunnel under the Cleveland & Pittsburg
railroad, and it is likely a grade switch will
$32,854,018; increase, $9,868,445; value of have to be constructed in the end. Harry
products, $28,135,893.33; increase, $4,424,- H. Leith is president of the Company, and
035.65; amount paid for rent, taxes and
others interested in the deal are H. W.
insurance, $297,956.44; amount paid in Sinclair and John W. Smith. The Company
is capitalized at $12,000, and incor­
wages, $19,113,466.75; increase $3,345,829.92;
amount paid superintendents, salesmen and poration papers were obtained last summer
office help, $900,286.92; increase, $205,780.56; from Ohio.
average number of days worked per employee,
$2.60: increase, $0.36; average yearly
earnings per employee, $496.60; increase,
$55.32; average hours of daily labor per
employee, 8; number affected by advance in
wages, 26,950; average per cent, advance in
—Prison Commissioner W. T. Murray,
of Tennessee, has given out a statement
in regard to the condition of the Brushy
mountain mines. He says that the mines
have yielded $140,815.76 over and above
wages, 12.57.
expenses for the year. During the year
$25,000 has been spent in improvements,
--The strike of coal miners in Massillion
district, in which 1,000 men have been in­
and during the month of November $73,000
was turned into the state treasury.
volved, has been settled, the employers
granting a concession of two cents more
per ton for loading.
--Over 100 men are now employed at the
Labelle Coal mines, near Steubenville, O.
The Company has installed some fine
electrical machinery, which greatly aids
their work and adds to their output.
—The former Jones & Leady coal mine at
Mineral Ridge, O., has been leased by the
Jones-Cook Coal Company, of Youngstown,
which will operate it on a large
scale. New mine machinery will be installed,
a switch run in from the Erie, and coal
shipped in large quantities.
—The Fair Oaks Coal Mining Company
of Columbus, Ohio, capital $10,000, was incorporated
by Hugh F. Dalrymple, Alexander
B. Mullen, Matthias Stone, Thomas
F. O'Neil and William J. Ford. They will
buy or lease coal lands, mine coal and deal
init in a wholesale and retail way.
—The Capital City Fuel Company of
Columbus, Ohio was incorporated December
7, by Paul W. Potts, A. W. Shields,
W. M. Williams, John W. Seeds and
William S. Dresback, all of Columbus. It
is to deal in coal and coal lands and
operate mines. For the present the company
will confine its attention entirely to
the wholesale coal business, but later will
open mines.
—Officials of the Block House Coal Company,
a Wellsville, Ohio, corporation, have
let the contract for the construction of a
mammoth tipple at the mouth of their
mines on the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad,
near Yellow Creek. This mine has
an opening on the Ohio River a short distance
east of the Yellow Creek station.
It may be that the company in the spring
will arrange to load coal on the river.
Electricity is to be the motive power used
by the company in operating the mine