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H. B. N. LOUTTIT, MANAGER OF MINES OF
PITTSBURGH COAL COMPANY, LEAVES
TO BE GENERAL MANAGER OF VESTA
MINES—HARRY MILLER SUCCEEDS HIM
AND ARTHUR NEALE BECOMES MINE
INSPECTOR.
Mr. H. B. N. Louttit is leaving as manager
of mines on the Monongahela River for the Piusburgh
Coal Co. to take charge of the coal properties
of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Co. at California,
Pa. He succeeds Mr. R. B. Drum, who has
been superintendent and manager of the Vesta
Coal Works for many years. Mr. Louttit will be
succeeded in tbe Pittsburgh Coal Co. as manager
of Mines by Mr. Harry R. Miller, who has been
inspector for the company of the mines on the
Monongahela River. The vacancy thus created
among the company's inspectors will be filled by
Mr. Arthur Neale, a state mine inspector in the
Irwin district.
Mr. Louttit is looked upon as one of the ablest
young mine operating officials in the business.
The extensive works at California will give him
somewhat broader scope, as he lakes entire charge
of the properties. He is a young man in the
thirties and has every qualification to make his
new work a complete success. He is one ot quite
a number of the young men who have been trained
tinder Mr. G. \V. Schluederberg, the general manager
of mines of the Pittsburgh Coal Co., who
have been called to exacting positions elsewhere.
Mr. Louttit has been with the Pittsburgh Coal
Co. since 1901, starting as division superintendent
at Shire Oaks. He is a son of the late James
Louttit, who was identified with Monongahela
River mines all his life, being a state mine in
spector in this field part of the time. Harry
Louttit was practically reared in the coal mines
along the Monongahela River and as a boy trained
in all lines of coal mine work under his father,
who had charge of the Captain S. S. Brown interests,
including the well known Black Diamond
and Monongah mines.
Mr. Miller, who succeeds Mr. Louttit, has had a
broad experience in the Pittsburgh Coal Co. and
is very well qualified for his new work. He has
been inspector of the Monongahela River mines
of the company for nearly two years. Previously,
he had been a division engineer, then superintendent
of mines at the upper end of Millers Run;
from there he was transferred to the superintendency
at McDonald. Mr. Miller is also a young
man in the early thirties.
Mr, Neale, who comes to the Pittsburgh Coal
Co. as an inspector in one of the three big* territories
divided among the managers of mines, was
formerly an employe of the River Coal Co., having
been superintendent at Fayette City for a number
of years. He then became a state mine inspector
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in District No. 7, which is the Pan Handle field,
and about two years ago was transferred to the
Irwin district, which is the 19th. Mr. Neale also
classifies among the younger coal men whose experience
and ability point to a marked success in
Ihe future.
The general officials and all the superintendents
of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. will participate in a
dinner in honor of Mr. Louttit Saturday evening,
the 17th, at the Hotel Henry.
RECENT COAL TRADE PATENTS.
The following recently granted patents of inlerest
to the coal trade, are reported expressly for
Tin: COAL TRADE BCLLETIN by Nesbit & Doolittle,
Patent Attorneys, Park building, Pittsburgh, Pa.,
from whom printed copies may be procured for
15 cents each:
Miner's lamp, W. F. Hudgins, Dorrisville, 111.;
1,079,347.
Mine hoist recorder, 0. W. Ingels, Carlyle, 111.;
1.079,493.
Rotary coal screen, F. S. Converse, Binghamton,
N. Y.: 1,079,543.
Miner's lamp, Charles Dushek, Beloit, Wis.; 1-
080,050.
Apparatus for coking coal, H. L. Doherty, New-
York; 1,080,142.
Miner's lamp holder, Nicholas Friedband, Shenandoah,
Pa.; 1,080,434.
Mine car lubricator, J. H. Thomas, Independence,
Col.; 1.080,500.
Bit for mining machines, J. J. Moore, Springfield,
111.; 1,081,131.
Mine car wheel, XV. M. McCoy, Birmingham,
Ala.; 1,081,318.
Miner's cap, D. F. Brubaker, Glen Campbell,
Pa.; 1,081,659.
Blasting cap and carrier therefor, J. R. Powell,
Plymouth, Pa.; 1,081,772.
Mining machine. H. B. Dierdorff, Columbus, O.,
assignor to The Jeffrey Mfg. Co.; 1,081,818.
Coal jigger, Christian Simon, Essen-on-the-Ruhr,
Germany; 1,082,102.
Coaling station, A. B. B. Harris, Chicago, 111.;
1,082,194.
Mining machines (2), A. H. Gibson, Easton,
Pa., assignor to Ingersoll-Rand Co., New York;
1,082,318 and 1,082,319.
A three-foot vein of lignite coal was struck, 60
feet beneath the surface at Brush, Col., by Lew-
Forrest, owner of a ranch.
Gov. Cox's commission uncovered prospects for
a beautiful legislative battle when it made its
report.