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language of one who is interested and has had
large experience in this industry, "greater efficiency,
a larger production per man employed, an
increase in safety to life, a reduction in the cost
of coal on board of cars, and an improvement in
the social welfare of every miners' family." Such
conditions will greatly enhance your own material
prosperity and promote your happiness and
contentment. It will give you a deeper interest
in the prosperity of the miners themselves, and
dispose you to the largest justice and kindness in
your intercourse and dealings with them. It is
therefore to your highest interest to aid in every
way you can in the strict enforcement of the law.
Your attitude, influence and efforts will be of tremendous
importance along this line.
A new era is being ushered in in our beloved
state. Our material resources are great and are
still in the very infancy of their development. In
but few places is labor in greater demand and the
need of efficiency more imperative. The liquor
traffic has greatly impeded our progress, and has
been largely responsible for our somewhat impaired
reputation in the eyes of our country. But
we are emerging from beneath this murky cloud.
We are coming out into the sunshine of a better
day, and, free from the incubus of the drinking
saloon which has clung like a loaathsome parasite
around our mines and other industries, we shall go
forth by leaps and bounds in the development of
our resources, in the acquisition of wealth, in mental,
moral and spiritual progress until we shall
plant our standaid at the very head of tbe states
of this glorious union.
John S. Jones of Chicago has won his case
against George J. Gould and others for the commissions
due him for acting as their agent in the
purchase of coal lands for the Little Kanawha
syndicate. The final decision was handed down
in the highest court in New York during the fortnight.
The original amount was $400,000, but
interest and otlier charges have brought the
amount to $610,000, this sum being awarded by
the court.
Immediate construction at San Francisco of an
underwater coal storage plant of from 200,000 to
300,000 tons capacity to meet fuel demands of the
navy when the Panama canal is opened, is recommended
by Paymaster General T. J. Cowie, of the
navy in his annual report recently made public.
But one mine produced coal in North Carolina
in 1912, that of A. J. Jones of Glendon, N. C.
E. D. Steele of High Point, and John L. Tull of
Hemp own mines but there was no production
from them during the year.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 57
OHIO COMMISSION REPORT IS DISCUSSED.
Conflicting stories are heard as to the forthcoming
report of the Ohio Mining commission.
Seemingly authentic sources tend to show that
there are three factions in the commission ancl
there will be some difficulty in arriving at a report
which will obtain a majority vote.
It is known that the question of conservation
will play an important part in the report. Just
how far it will go in the conservation recommendations
is not nown. Professor Hammond of the
Ohio State University is studying that phase of
the question and a lengthy report is expected. It
is claimed that one of the recommendations along
the conservation of Ohio's coal will be that before
a new* seam is opened it shall have the approval
of the Ohio Industrial commission of which the
state mine department is a part.
The rumor that the contention of the mineis to
be paid on the mine-run basis has been approved
by a majority of the commission is denied by
some who profess to know. If the plan of Senator
Green to pay on that basis is approved it will
undoubtedly be surrounded with conditions which
will not make the hardship upon operators so
marked. In the meantime contracts for steam
coal will either be held up or will contain a provision
covering the passage of any law changing
the mining scale in Ohio.
COMPANY IN RECE1VFFSHIP.
A petition has been filed in the Circuit court at
Alton, 111., asking that a receiver be appointed
for the DeCamp Coal Mining Co. Lack of business
and mild weather are given as the cause ot
the failure.
SELLS COAL INTFRFSTS.
M. T. Davis, president of the Cabin Creek Consolidated
Coal Co., has disposed of his interests in
that company and has retired from tbe nre=iden.y.
William Pnckett, one of the largest stockholders,
has been elected president.
The Davis interests have been purchased by
Pucket and other large stockholders in tbe company.
The companv has an authorized canital of
$1,500,000, of which $1,200,000 has been paid. The
mines of the company are located along Cabin
Creek, West Virginia.
The coal production of California for 1912, was
14,848 tons, valued at $39,092, comnared with 11,-
047 tons valued at $17,297 in 1911. according to
the official report of the State Mining Rttrpau,
prepared by State Minerologist F. McN. Hamilton.
Fifteen companies produced the tonnage.