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36 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
VIRGINIAN RAILWAY SHIPMENTS.
The coal and coke tonnage of the Virginian
Railway Co., for the month of February, 1914,
yvas: Coal, Net Tons.
Kanawha, Glen Jean & Eastern R. R 26.125
Loup Creek Colliery Co 21,160
New River Collieries Co 20,221
Slab Fork Coal Co 19,342
F. F. White Coal Co 17,866
Gulf Smokeless Coal Co 15.538
E. E. White Coal Co 14,76!)
Winding Gulf Colliery Co 12.872
MacAlpin Coal Co 12,231
Pemberton Coal & Coke Co 9.789
Bailey Wood Coal Co 7,466
The New River Co 5,827
Lynwin Coal Co 5.6S0
The New River Co 5,081
New River Collieries Co 5,605
The New River Co 5,500
Raleigh Coal & Coke Co 5,280
Gulf Coal Co 5,170
Sullivan Coal & Coke Co 4,797
Pemberton Coal & Coke Co 4.657
Meade-Pocahontas Coal Co 4,100
The New River Co 3.967
The New River Co 3.S71
The New River Co 3,847
Tbe New River Co 3,127
Long Branch Coal Co 2,996
Sugar Creek Coal & Coke Co 2,698
The Neyv River Co 2,611
Woodpeck Coal Co 2,280
Pemberton Fuel Co 2,271
The Neyv River Co 1,251
Trace Fork Coal Co 900
City Coal Co 200
Mount Hope Coal & Coke Co 55
259,756
NORFOLK AND WESTERN SHIPMENTS.
The coal and coke tonnage of the Norfolk &
Western railway for March, yvas:
Coal. Coke.
Pocahontas 1,073,893 71.620
Tug River 246,490
Thacker 274,786
Kenova 88,616
Totals 1.683,785 71.620
United States civil service examinations wil! be
held May 11 for the positions of mining engineer.
assistant engineer ol mine tests and mine statis­
tician in the United States Bureau of Mines' service.
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS :;
Attorney General Bell, of Pennsylvania, has
given an opinion to James E. Roderick, chief of the
state department of mines, in which he says that a
decision of John P. Elkin, yvhen attorney general,
should govern him in disposing of a request from
executive boards of the United Mine Workers oi
America that examinations for mine foremen's and
assistants' certificates be limited to men who have
bad five years' experience in cutting coal. Mr.
Elkin decided that if was not the intention of the
legislature in enacting the anthracite mining law
in 1891 to limit the right of examination to any
particular class of men in the mines.
Announcement has been made at Cleveland that
the demurrage on lake coal will begin a day
earlier than last season. This year five days
will be allowed, whereas last year six days were
allowed. The railroads interested are the Lake
Shore, Big Four, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Penn­
sylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Hocking Valley, Bes­
semer & Lake Erie, and the Toledo & Ohio Central.
E. E. Kelsey has been appointed receiver for
the J. M. C. Coal Co.. operating coal mines near
Oakland City, lnd.. under a lease from the Peacock
Coal Co.
Tiie hearing in the suits against the Philadel­
phia & Reading Railroad and the Philadelphia
& Reading* Coal & Iron Co. and their subsidiaries,
instituted by the U. S. government last September,
has been set down for a hearing in the Uni­
ted States District Court, at Philadelphia on June
3, an order of • ourt having beer made to that
effect.
At the recent annual meeting of the Allegheny-
Valley Operators' association. President C. P. Mc-
Cafferty and Secretary-Treasurer George E. Henry
were re-elected. The committee named to meet
with the miners in joint conference is composed
of Messrs. E. C. Roberts. y\'. I). Ward, and J. R.
Brady* of Buffalo, and L. B. Lewis and A. J. Watson,
of Pennsylvania.
The Clearfield Bituminous Coal Corporation is
completing a $150,000 electric plant at Rossiter,
Pa., to operate its mines The company yvill build
a similar plant at Peale, Pa., and at the comple­
tion of the work will abolish the compressed air
system of mining and use electricity.
Tentative plans are being made to consolidate
the Traders' Coal Co., Ihe St. Clair Coal Co. ancl
the Dolph & Robertson Coal Co., anthracite con-
terns, with headquarters in Scranton. Mr. \Y. H.
Taylor ol New York, is said to be the leading spirit
in the proposed consolidation.