Jo h n Bo y l a n, of Scranton, Pa., for the
last six years president o f1 District 1, United Mine Workers, resigned that office July 31 to become secretary of the A n
thracite Conciliation Board. H e succeeds the late Chris Golden. Mic h a e l J . Ko s i k, former vice-president of District 1, moves up to the presidency, and Jo h n T. Su l l i
v a n succeeds Mr. Kosik as vice-president.
Jo h n M. Ca r m o d y, for the past year a
member of the National Railway Media
tion Board, has been appointed a member of the National Labor Relations Board
J a m e s R . C a m p b e ll D ie s
James Ross Campbell, 58, since early in 1934 special representative for fuel prob
lems in both field and market for the Is
land Creek Coal Co. at Cincinnati, Ohio, died Aug. 6, at his home in Scottdale, Pa., after a week’s illness. Born at Charles City, Iowa, Mr. Campbell was graduated in 1898 from Rio Grande College, at Rio Grande, Ohio, where he specialized in water analysis. Following his graduation he was professor at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pa., for two years, teaching mathematics and chemistry. Becoming chief chemist of the H. C. Frick Coke Co., he made many important studies into the operation and particularly the pyrom- etry of the beehive oven, the distribution of phosphorus in the coal bed, the desira
bility of basic coke, the production of ferric oxide from the “sulphur water” of coal mines and the possible utilization of ferrous and ferric hydrate in agriculture.
In 1924 and for five years thereafter, he was chief chemist of the Hudson Coal Co., which concern he left to become special representative of the American, later the Koppers, Rheolaveur Co.
T o O p e ra te in R ic h m o n d F ie ld
Plans of the Great Southern Morgan Coal & Coke Corporation to finance coal-m ining operations in the Richmond field of V irginia by the issuance of
$500,000 in securities have been sanc
tioned by the S tate Corporation Com
m ission, and operation is to be started soon, according to counsel for the com pany. H . W . M organ, president, Mor
gan Coal Co., heads the new company.
M ining in this field began nearly 100 years ago, but has been at a standstill in recent years. T h e M organ com pany, it has been announced, w ill not attem pt to w ork old m ines but w ill sink diagonal sh afts along beds slan ting about 30 deg.
dow nw ard from the narrow sides of the basin. A lth ou gh the com pany has under lease 3,150 acres in Chesterfield and P ow hatan counties, operation w ill be on a sm all scale until it is show n that min
in g on a com m ercial scale is warranted.
A n im portant feature of the project is that coal shipm ents from the property can be made via tidewater.
D e v e lo p in g N e w S o u th e rn M in e
A new mine, near Clairfield, Tenn., is b eing developed by the Black Diamond Coal M ining Co., Birm ingham , Ala. It is a drift opening in the Jellico seam, and w ill have rail connection w ith the Southern and L ouisville & Nashville railroads. The operation w ill be devel
oped to a capacity of 750 to 1,000 tons daily, m ining m achines and m echanical loaders being em ployed. E lectric haul
age, w ith loading boom s, w ill be utilized, and preparation equipm ent w ill include shaking and vibrating screens. D w ell
in gs and other facilities for m iners are under construction, as w ell as com m is
sary, office and other mine structures.
T he plant is exp ected to be ready for operation by D ec. 1, according to Carl M cFarlin, Birm ingham , general superin
authorized by the Wagner trades-dispute measure enacted at the session of Con
gress which ended last month. Mr. Car
mody was named by President Roosevelt for a three-year term on the new board Prior to his appointment to the National Railway Mediation Board, Mr. Carmody, formerly editor of Coal A g e, had been serving as the impartial member of D ivi
sion I— North Labor Board under the N R A bituminous-coal code and as chief engineer of the Federal Emergency Relief Corporation.
J. H. Ed w a r d s, associate editor, Coal A ge, has been reappointed to membership on the committee on applications to min
ing work of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for the year ending July 31, 1936.
Wa y n e P. El l i s, deputy administrator,
Bituminous Coal Code, in old N R A D ivi
sion I, has announced that he will retire from N R A Sept. 1. H is long association with the coal industry has included the following connections: zoning committee, National Fuel Administration; secretary, Logan County (W . V a.) Coal Operators’
A ssociation; secretary, Davis Coal & Coke C o.; assistant to the president, Pittsburgh Terminal R.R. & Coal Co.; secretary and manager, Northwestern Coal Dock Oper
ators’ Association and the Ellis Coal Bu
reau; Northwest sales manager, Berwind Fuel Co.
H. S . Gil b e r t s o n, hitherto director of personnel, Lehigh Navigation Coal Co., has been appointed director of research and personnel. Other changes announced by the company are: Ev a n Ev a n s, district superintendent, Coaldale district, appointed operating assistant in charge of labor mat
ters. E. P. Hu m p h r i e s, supervisor of preparation, mechanical department, ap
pointed superintendent of preparation and strippings. C. D. Ru b e r t, district super
intendent, Tamaqua district, transferred to same position in Coaldale district. F. E.
St e r n e r, district engineer, Nesquehoning
district, named district superintendent of Tamaqua district.
b m n ic á titoU er
The Late James Ross Campbell
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tendent. H. M. Rutland is superintendent conveyor. Production is expected to reach 1,000 tons daily. promoting mine safety; Isadore Lubin, U. S. C om m issioner of Labor Statistics, the n ecessity for accurate accident records in m ining; P. C. Thom as, vice- president, Koppers Coal & Transporta
tion Co., safety from the executive viewpoint; Ralph Kirk, safety engineer, Philadelphia & R eading Coal & Iron Allegany County, and institute president, who suffered a mild attack of hoarseness, Charles E. Lawall, head, School of Mines, West Virginia University, traced the his
tory of mining and thus explained the per
sistence with which the public associates the coal industry with conditions and meth
ods of long ago.
“It is an economic crime to purchase lo
comotives without anti-friction bearings throughout, and especially without that type of bearing on the suspension,” said B. Fj Grimm, consulting electrical engineer, Koppers Coal & Transportation Co., in a paper on transportation, which he classed as the principal factor usually determin
ing the daily tonnage capacity of a mine.
Discussing cars, he declared that larger capacities often increase the production in direct proportion without increasing any of the expense items such as track, ventila
tion, drainage, section bosses, salaried em
ployees and preparation.
R eferring to gathering locomotives Mr.
Grimm expressed the opinion that 4 m.p.h.
is fast enough for a well-planned mining system and that units permanently con
nected in series and without drive chains between axles render excellent service.
“The best means developed to date for engineer, M etropolitan W ater District of Southern California, will describe accident-prevention m ethods on the Col
orado aqueduct; W illiam Roy, safety on present and prospective occupational- disease legislation, and one by Edgar Mayer, assistant professor of clinical m edicine, Cornell Medical College, on
getting permanently reliable track joints is to weld them,” was his conclusion on the maintenance of strong and rigid main haulage tracks of high electrical conduc
tivity. Thermit welds have been applied to rail joints on 3,500 ft. of 60-lb. track in an Ohio mine.
Locomotive maintenance is reduced by thermal sustained overload protection. gathering locomotive, Mr. Grimm called attention to the economic possibilities of re
building old locomotives with modern fea
tures. Among the specifications which he listed as necessary for the ideal locomo
tive were the following : all wheels chained or geared together, anti-friction bearings, interlocks between starting resistance and braking (excepting possibly on the first point) and dynamic or regenerative brak
ing.
cussing mine tracks and tracklaying. Se
lection of the proper rail size for work utilizing standard formulas rather than short-cut methods for figuring turnouts and also of selecting materials that fit prop Operators’ Association. Attendance on the last day, when only coal men were ad
Carnegie Steel Co., Charleston Electrical Supply Co., Century Electric Co., Colum
bian Vise & M fg. Co., Citizens’ Coal & Sup
ply Co., Deming Co., Dayton Rubber Mfg.
Co., Electric Railway Equipment Co., Elec
tric Railway Improvement Co., Fafnir Bearing Corporation, Frank Prox Co., French Sand Dryer Co., General Cable Corporation, B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co., Goulds Pumps, General Shale Products Co., General Electric Co., Goodman Mfg. Safety Appliances Co., National Carbon Co., National Electric Coil Co., Norfolk & Roller Bearing Co., Trumbull Electric Mfg. Co., Toledo Scale Co., Torchweld
T r a n s p o r t a t i o n T h e m e o f T e c h n i c a l S e s s i o n
A t P o c a h o n t a s I n s t i t u t e M e e t i n g
S ep tem b er, 1935 — C O A L A G E 397
Equipment Co., Tyson Roller Bearing Cor
poration.
Van Dorn Electric Tool Co., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Weinman Pump Mfg.
Co., Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., Westinghouse Lamp Co., W est Virginia Armature Co., W est Virginia Rail Co., W est Virginia University and Williamson Supply Co.
lumbia in mechanical engineering, Mr.
Luther was for four years a mining engi Aug. 11 at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He served in Puerto Rico
ests in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, shortly
after his graduation as a mining engineer from Yale University, in 1877. W ithin a few years he was an important figure in the development of bituminous mining in the Punxsutawney region of Pennsylvania.
Marketing of the output o f operations over which he had control was largely responsi
ble for development of the railroad which afterward became the Buffalo, Rochester
& Pittsburgh. H e took an active part in founding the Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal
& Iron Co., later becoming chairman of the Furnace Co. and Punxsutawney Furnace Co., and vice-president of the Cowanshan- nock Coal & Coke Co.
He n r y Br ig gs, 52, professor of mining
at Heriot-W att College since 1919 and first occupant of the Hood chair of mining, established at the University of Edinburgh in 1924, died Aug. 26 in London. Educated at Bradford and the Royal Academy of Science, he became an associate at the Royal School of Mines in 1903. Later he lectured on mine surveying at the University of Bir
mingham, besides engaging in several min
ing projects in Yorkshire, Cumberland and Wales, being appointed to the faculty of H eriot-W att College in 1907. H e served as experimental director of Mine Rescue Research (Science and Industry Research Department) from 1917 to 1920 and was a territory, with headquarters in Chicago.
H e was formerly Eastern sales manager of
Total-Number Killed per Number Killed per Number Killed per
Cause killed million tons killed million tons killed million tons
Falls of roof and coal... 245 1.344 76 2.319 321 1.492
Surface and miscellaneous... 53 .291 31 .946 84 .391
T otal... 418 2.293 146
Surface and miscellaneous. 44 .233 39 1.362 83 .382
T otal...
*A11 figures subject to revision. 433 2.293 160 5.586 593 2.727