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60 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Make Accident Reports in Duplicate.
In order to keep in closer touch with the accidents
that occur in and around the mines of the
state, the West Virginia Department of Mines has
sent out circular letters asking the coal operators
in making their reports of accidents to the mine
inspectors to make duplicate copies, sending one
directly to the office of the Department of Mines
at Charleston, and another to the inspector as
heretofore. The Department of Mines is called
upon almost daily for information concerning accidents,
and in the future it is desired to be able
to give this information promptly.
The Wilhoit Coal Co., which has been operating
mines in the Harlan district of eastern Kentucky,
has been adjudged bankrupt in the District court
of Louisville on the petition of three creditors,
the Standard Oil Co., the Swann-Abram Hat Co.
and the Keuffel & Esser Co.
Advance estimates are to the effect that Ala­ It is alleged in the statement of claim filed by
bama's coal production for 1913 will break all pre­ the plaintiffs that Snyder and Charles Donnelly,
vious records and will approach close to 18,000,000 now deceased, owned the McClure Coke Co., which
tons.
was later purchased by tlie H. C. Frick Coke Co.
A special meeting of the Portsmouth Coal Min­
It is averred by the plaintiff that it has been coming
Co. was held Dec. 3 at Portland, Me., to authorpelled
to pay obligations which belonged to the
ize dissolution of the company.
McClure Coke Co.
THE SEASON'S GREETINGS
AND
VERY BEST WISHES
FOR
MY FRIENDS AND PATRONS
F. C. ALBRECHT
MANAGER INDUSTRIAL AND POWER DIVISION
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC & MFG. CO.
UNION BANK BUILDING.
PITTSBURGH, PA.
LABOR BEFORE FEDERATION.
Labor organizations are allowed to exist in the
United States, yet the right of coalition, union
and free speech, is denied them under the Sherman
anti-trust law, Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, asserted in an address
at the fourteenth annual meeting of the National
Civic Federtaion Dec. 12.
John Hays Hammond urged that the regulation
of corporations should be left to an interstate
industrial commission, whose dignity would be
on a parity with that of the United States Supreme
court. A. B. Garretson said that agreements between
organizations of workingmen and their
employers fixing hours of labor, conditions and
wages, should not be considered as being in violation
of tbe Sherman law.
The H. C. Frick Coke Co. has filed a suit in the
Fayette county, Pa., court against William P. Sny­
der in which it seeks to recover $80,000 damages.
L. S. Mellinger, of Dawson, Pa., was this week
named receiver for the Minerd & Herd Coal Co.,
which operates a custom mine at Wheeler, Pa.
The company is composed of Charles Minerd and
Washington Herd.
The Wallworth Coal Co. took out papers Dec. 11,
at Kittanning, Pa., to establish a town to be known
as Wallworth on the other side of the Allegheny
river from Kittanning. The company will open
mines there.
The Ohio Brass Co., Mansfield. 0„ has just
mailed to the trade a folder, with return post card
attached, in which the merits of the company's
compressed all-wire bonds are tersely set forth.
YOU CAN'T
LOOK INTO THE
EARTH, but WE
CAN get you a large
clean core of all strata un­
der your land tc be ex­
amined in broad daylight.
. No Guess Work. .
The J. A. BRENNAN DRILLING CO.
Home Office, SCRANTON, PA.
j Field Office, 30 Carson St., PITTSBURGH, PA.
Contrictor» for DIAMOND DRILLING. OIL AND ARTESIAN WELL DRILLING