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60 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
The Coal Industry In The State of Ohio.
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probability see the car in readiness for actual use
in the mines of the state.
Several new laws were enacted by the same legislature
affecting the mining industry off the
state, and several amendments to old laws wert
also passed at that time, the most important ol
which was the amendment providing for a mine
rescue car, that relating to the right of action
in case of death in a mine; the use or calcium caibide
in the mines; ancl that relative to the approaching
of abandoned mines. Another most
important act of this legislature was the enactment
of a statute creating the Industiial Commission
of Ohio, superseding the state liability
board of awards, abolishing the department of
commissioner of labor statistics, chief inspector
of mines, chief inspector of work-shops and factories,
chief examiner of steam engineers, board
of boiler rules, and the state board of arbitration,
merging certain powers and duties of said departments
to said industrial commission of Ohio, and
granting said commission certain other powers,
and repealing a number of sections formerly in
force. This commission took charge of these
several departments Sept. 1, organized the workami
will from now on administer and superintend
the work formerly done by these different state
departments.
Perhaps no question brought to the attention
of the legislature in a number of years so vitally
interested the persons connected with the niining
industry of the state as Senate Bill No. 23, which
related to the
METHOD OF WEIGHING COAL
at the mines throughout the state; the agitation
both pro and con became so animated, that il resulted
in the passage of a joint resolution providing
for the appointment of a commission to
investigate an equitable method of weighing coal
at the mines, and their report to be filed with Hie
governor by Dec. 1. The commission was ap-
iTheJ. A. BRENNAN DRILLING CO.
Home Office, SCRANTON, PA. ')
j Field Office, 30 Carson St., PITTSBURGH, PA. )
) Contractors for DIAMOND DRILLING, OIL AND ARTESIAN WELL DRILLING
pointed and on Dec. 17, filed with the governor an
exhaustive report covering their investigations of
coal mining in this and other states, and recommending
that miners be paid on the run-of-mine
basis. This commission also recommended legislation
pointing to the conservation of our coal
resources; the appointment of safety mine-foremen;
regulating of solid shooting; providing for
emergency supplies, and an act regulating the
weighing of coal at the mine. This report, and
the other legislation aforementioned, will be
placed in the hands of the general assembly by
Governor Cox, at a special session to be called
in the early part of the month of January, 1914,
when interest will again center on these most important
features in connection with the niining
of coal in this state, and the results are looked
for eagerly by those who are operating* mines,
and by the persons who earn their livelihood by
mining coal. New wage scales are to be entered
into again in April, and it would be difficult at
this time to give with any degree of accuracy just
what the state of the coal trade w-ill be for the
year 1914.
All records in the matter of coal shipments from
Buffalo to other lake ports were smashed during
the 1913 navigation season. The shipments by
months in tons were: April, 505,114; May, 638,-
750; June, 642,110; July, 780,632; Aug., 742,215;
Sept., 532,115; Oct., 564,160; Nov., 525,500; Dec,
103,100; total, 5.033,696. This is compared with
3,925,0S3 tons in 1912 and 3,917,429 tons in 1911.
A mortgage to protect an issue of $100,000 of
6 per cent, bonds was filed against the Minooka
Coal Co. at Scranton, Pa„ Jan. 7, by the Logan
Trust Co. of Philadelphia.
FOR SALE.
Sixteen hundred and fourteen acres (1614) of
coal land in fee. Seven bundled and fifty (750)
acres coal under lease @ 6c royalty. Four (4)
operating mines on property, fully equipped. Situated
on the Kanawha River and main line of the
C. & O. R. R. in West Virginia. Expert report
shows that by an expenditure of fifteen thousand
($15,000) dollars this property can easily pioduce
fifty (5U.O00) thousand tons per month. Price,
three hundred and sixty ($360,000) thousand dollars.
($150,000 cash, and balance to suit @ 6 per
cent.) Must be sold before February 1, 1915.
Very finest quality of coal.
For further particulars, address
J. B. YATES,
327 Vine Street, Lexington, Kentucky.