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28 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Charging that the Royal Goshen Coal Co. has
mined 13 acres of coal from the Goshen Coal Co.
and has spoiled 20 acres of coal altogether, the
Goshen Co. has filed suit in common pleas sourt
at New Philadelphia, 0„ for $26,567.06 damages
from the Royal Goshen Co. The coal lands of the
two companies adjoin and the mines of both are
situated in Goshen township. C. L. Cassingham
of Cleveland is president of the Goshen Coal Co.
and C. D. Grimes and C. W. Burry, both of New
Philadelphia, are owners of the Royal Goshen
mine.
The suit entered by the Hocking Valley railroad
against the Lackawanna Lumber & Coal Co. for
$30,000, in the United States district court at
Charleston, W. Va., recently, brings up a new
question with relation to floods and their effects.
Last March the railroad company was forced to
change the route of cars billed by the Faint Creek
Collieries Co., for which the Lackawanna Co. is
the holding corporation, on account of floods in
Ohio. The rerouting charges amounted to $30,-
000, and the railroad asks judgment in that sum.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad won a victory
in the United States circuit court of appeals at
Cincinnati, O., Dec. 2, when it ordered back to the
district court for re-trial the McKell case. The
case was appealed from the decision of the district
court in which the heirs of Thomas McKell of
Chillicothe, 0„ were given judgment for $300,000
against the railrord for alleged breach of contract.
The case was sent back because the court believed
that the amount of damage was speculative, as the
evidence showed no definite way of arriving at a
valuation of $300,000.
Suit for the appointment of a receiver for the
Standard Washed Coal Co. was filed in the Circuit
court at Chicago, recently, by James A. Bingham,
a stockholder. He says the company has
not done business for two years. Charges are
made that the affairs of the company were mismanaged.
Herbert E. Bell and Walter G. Zoller,
heads of the Bell & Zoller Co., are the principal defendants.
The Alabama State Railroad commission has
issued an order establishing a rate of SO cents a
ton on coal on all railroads running between Birmingham
and Selma. The old rate was $1 per
ton. The action of the commission in reducing
the rate on coal from the Birmingham mines to
Selma came as the result of a long and determined
fight waged by the Selma Chamber of Commerce.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Sales Co. declared a
cash dividend of 25 per cent, out of accumulated
surplus to stockholders of record Nov. 17. Stockholders
of record this date also have right to subscribe
to new stock, at par, to extent of 25 per
cent, of holdings. In substance, therefore, this
is a stock dividend of 25 per cent. Right to subscribe
terminates Jan. 14.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Burrell Coal Co., of Tarentum, Pa., held recently,
the following board of directors was elected for
the ensuing year: H. M. Brackenridge, Joel W.
Burdick, Oliver C. Camp, Robert J. Dodds, J. E.
McKelvey, John McGinley and John R. Taylor.
The rescue station of the United States Bureau
of Mines in Birmingham, Ala., is now equipped
with a 60-horsepower electric truck, which is capable
of carrying 10 passengers and the life-saving
apparatus. Trial trips to mines in the Birmingham
district are now being made.
At a meeting of the mine inspectors of the anthracite
field held recently at Wilkes-Barre it was
announced that 75 per cent, of the accidents in
the anthracite mines were due to three causes:
Fall of coal and rock, the use of powder and explosives
and to mine cars.
The Beaver Pond Coal Co., in its mines at Prestonburg,
Ky., has opened seam No. 2, known over
in West Virginia as the Borderland seam. The
Colonial Coal Co., of that region, has discovered
that the seam is continued over its territory and
will open it up soon.
Col. R. A. Phillips, general manager of the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western Coal Co., was fined
$1,000 Dec. 3 for alleged violation of the Davis
mine-cave act. An appeal to court was taken immediately
and the legality of the act will be questioned.
State Mine Inspector J. C. Davis of Ohio, with
several deputies, has opened mine No. 7 at Murray
City, 0„ which was sealed up last March to check
a disastrous fire. It was found that the fire was
out and the mine will be placed in operation soon.
Dr. Joseph A. Holmes, director of the U. S. Bureau
of Mines, has informed Scranton business
men interested in the surface cave problem that
without special legislation by Congress the bureau
is unable to help solve the problem.
The Graham Coal & Coke Co., Uniontown, Pa„
at a meeting of stockholders elected officers as follows:
XV. J. Johnson, president; J. J. Graham,
vice president, and E. M. Everly, of Morgantown,
W. Va., secretary and treasurer.