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32 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for the employer
of a miner or loader of the contents of any car
of coal described in section 1 of this act, to pass
any part of such contents over a screen or other
device, for the purpose of ascertaining or calculating
the amount to be paid such miner or loader
for niining or loading such contents, whereby the
total weight of such contents shall be reduced
or diminished.
Any person, firm or corporation violating the
provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be
fined for each separate offense not less than three
hundred dollars nor more than six hundred dollars.
Sec. 7. A miner or loader of the contents of a
mine car, containing a greater percentage of
slate, sulphur, rock, dirt or other impurity, than
above provided, shall le guilty of a misdemeanor
and upon conviction shall be punished as follows:
for the first offense within a period of
three days he shall be fined fifty cents; for a
second offense within such period of three days
he shall be fined one dollar; and for the third
offense within such period of three days he shall
be fined not less than two dollars nor more than
four dollars. Provided, that nothing contained
in this section shall affect the right of a miner
or loader and his employer to agree upon deductions
by the system known as docking, on account
of such slate, sulphur, rock, dirt or other
impurity.
• ) INDUSTRIAL NOTES •
The Pneumeleetric Machine Co.. Syracuse, N. Y.,
has just issued a neat pamphlet entitled "Hard
Facts About the Pneumeleetric Rock Drill, as Applied
to Coal Mines." The new machine, which
is second only in importance to the Pneumeleetric
coal puncher, embodies the same principle for its
operation, and the utilization of this principle was
one of the principal causes of the success of the
rock drill. The pamphlet contains some strong
commendatory statements about the drills from
their users and it should be convincing argument
to those contemplating purchases of this class of
machinery.
Leschen's Hercules for January, is just off the
press. This monthly publication of the A. Leschen
& Sons Rope Co., St. Louis. Mo., for the current
month treats exhaustively of an aerial tramway
in Alaska equipped with its ropes.
Two new mine rescue stations will be established
shortly by the U. S. Bureau of Mines at
Norton, Va,. and Jellico, Tenn.
THE COAL DUMPED OVER HAMPTON ROADS
PIERS DURING 1913 BROKE ALL RECORDS
A total of 11,993,658 tons of coal was dumped
over the Hampton Roads piers, namely Lamberts
Point, Sewalls Point and Newport News
in 1913. The Norfolk & Western Railroad led
all the other, having dumped a total of 5,598,716
over the Lamberts Point piers; the Virginian
Railway was second with a total dumping of
3,283,925 tons over the Sewalls Point pier, while
the Chesapeake & Ohio was third with a total
dumping of 3,111,017 tons over the Newport News
piers.
The Norfolk & Western has exceeded its dumpings
for the year 1912 by 384.050 tons. The 1912
dumpings amounted to 5,214,666 tons. The Virginian
has exceeded the 1912 dumpings by 814,914
tons as the dumping for 1912 amounted to 2,-
469,011 tons. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad fell
651,298 tons below the 1912 dumpings when they
reported a total dumping of 3,762,315 tons.
The dumpings of the three roads during the
various months follows:
Norfolk & Western—January, 484,842 tons;
February, 482,102 tons; March, 458,877 tons;
April, 508,158 tons; May, 490,917 tons; June,
476,122 tons; July, 513,951 tons; August, 455,269
tons; September, 430,943 tons; October, 437,787
tons; November, 345,727 tons; December, 514,020
tons.
Virginia—January, 260,544 tons; February, 258,-
182 tons; March, 261,463 tons; April, 249,225
tons; May, 281,537 tons; June, 254,758 tons; July,
221,064 tons; August, 283,385 tons; September,
300,588 tons; October, 304,779 tons; November,
340,769 tons; December. 267,632 tons.
Chesapeake & Ohio—January, 243,571 tons;
February, 284,706 tons; March, 274,017 tons;
April, 296,825 tons; May, 298,990 tons; June, 263,-
231 tons: July, 199,747 tons; August, 291,780
tons; September, 256.934 tons; October, 228,704
tons; November, 207,778 tons; December, 274,734
tons.
Charles S. Thorne, vice president of the Pocahontas
Colliers Co. and the Pocahontas Fuel Co.,
upon his return from Europe where he was looking
into the export coal business, in an interview
given out just as 1913 closed, forecasts a large
increase in their shipments through this port.
He is quoted as saying:
"As a result of investigation I am more and
more impressed with the fact that sooner or
later the United States will be one of the principal
sources of soft coal for world trade. There
is every indication of this. The Pocahontas Consolidated
Collieries Co. has just closed contracts
for nearly three-quarters of a million tons for
European export in 1914. This is an increase of
33 per cent, over the same business in 1913, and