The Welsh coal market is slightly better sińce the Whitsuntide holidays and the return of the railway shopmen to work, but sales are still below the average and shipping tonnage is ample.
The passing of the French political crisis and the slight improvement in the exchange has led to more business with France. Some of the older and more expensively operated pits have been closed down as the result of the
Production by British collieries dur
ing the week ended June 21, a cable to Coal Age states, was 5,173,000 tons.
This was a marked rebound from the previous week, when the output was only 3,236,000 tons owing to the ob- servance of Whitweek, according to the official Board of Trade returns.
Fair Trade at H a m p to n Roads;
tracts. General bunker business also is fair, though the market has weak- ened slightly.
There has been the usual slow-up for the holiday and shippers predicted a pick-up for the following week, the reduced holiday supply being expected to have a tendency to cause the market to strengthen somewhat.
The tone of the market is duli, but the outlook is promising, although no unusually heavy business is in sight for the immediate futurę. June’s dump
ing record showed an improvement
Conditions in French Market Show Slight Change
The situation in the French coal market shows comparatively little change. Output is increasing and is contract. The bituminous grades are ąuite neglected.
The recent decline of sterling has lessened the difference prevailing be
tween the prices of British and French coals; nevertheless, the ąuotations on the latter continue to be the more at- tractive. The prices of anthracites remain prohibitive.
The supply of rolling stock to the mines is satisfactory and the freight
Export Clearances, Week Ended July 5, 1924
Nor. Str. Bjornstjerne Bjornson, for Three
Rivers... 8,161
Ger. Str. Ludwigsteiner, for H am burg... 3,034 For Italy:
Ita l. Str. Mergheb, for Porto Ferrajo... 6,205 For West Indies:
Nor. Str. Skogheim for Port of Spain... . 3,510
Hampton Roads Pier
Current Quotations British Coal f.o.b.
Port, Gross Tons
Quotations b y Cable to Coal Age June 28 Ju ly 5t
6 4 C O A L A G E VoI. 26, No. 2
ALA BA M A
The Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.
has entered the retail coal trade by the establishment at its City Furnace plant of a battery of storage bins from
Nesbitt, chief mine inspector, Lincoln Life Bldg., Birmingham, July 21-24, to consider applications from candidates who would occupy positions as mine
State Public Utilities Commission has granted the Colorado & Southern R.R.
permission to tear up the 7-mile spur line from Beshoar Junction to the mine site.
ID A H O
Teton coal is to get railroad service.
The State Utilities Commission, follow
ing the long series of recent hearings, has ordered the Oregon Short Line to repair and operate its 11-mile spur from Tetonia Junction to the Brown Bear a political move to further his probable candidacy for Govemor and that he did
The hearings attracted much attention.
IL L IN O IS rights under adjacent property have been obtained and it is thought that and John Henderson, stockholders, both of St. Louis, Mo. Gross misman- agement is charged. The company was incorporated in 1917 and operated under its own name until 1922, the petition mated at $125,000 in the petition.
INDIANA
Cairy Littlejohn, of Indianapolis, state mine inspector and formerly a maintained during the remainder of the year, only about 50 per cent of- the normal production will result.
Operators say Indiana coal is suffering because of competition from non-union fields. They say a lower wage scalę with $577,500, but which has never been completely delivered. His suit is against the First National Bank of Vin- cennes; Joseph E. Paplante, its presi- would have given 0 ’Brien control of the company.
According to a report by Cairy Littlejohn, chief mine inspector of Indiana, 12,289,296 tons of coal was the first six months of the present year, as shown in the report, totals 23,861, as candidate for Republican nomina- tion for the U. S. Senate, and will wage
Neekamp, secretary of the Northeast Kentucky Coal Association, and F. E.
Durham, statistician, shows the tonnage produced from 1910 to 1923, inclusive.
A black and white chart in thermometer form shows production from 1906 to 1922, inclusive, along with tonnage for each mine, and total tonnages by mines from 1910 to 1922, inclusive. Figures by mines for 1906 to 1909 are not avail- able, and only totals for the field in those years are shown. In 1923 the field broke all previous records with a total production from 180 mines of 7,464,185 tons, bringing field produc
tion from 1906 through 1923 to 55,672,- 525 tons.
The Himyar Mines, of the Himyar friction existing between that road and the Southern Ry. whereby the Southern would withdraw from the Middlesboro field, over refusal to pay an increased
Loading records from western Ken
tucky show four mines of the St. Ber
nard Mining Co. producing coal on June 26 and 27 under the new agree- ment with 20-per cent reduction in wages, whereby the workers withdrew from the United Mine Workers, and iormed a Mutual Welfare Association.
It was reported on June 28 that 310 ordinary taxes, depreciation and de- pletion, but before federal taxes, com-
The United States Distributing Cor
poration, New York City, will handle in of bituminous coal distributed last year.
Both the corporation’s fuli sales de
partment and its distributing subsidi- ary, the U. S. Trucking Corporation, stock at 120 and dividends, leaying only
$775,000 of the original $1,292,100 out- standing, Frank L. Burns, president, announced last week. Owing to the cool weather the earnings in April and May were better than were anticipated, and the company will enter the fali better off than last year, he declared.
Robert D. Loudon, president of the
The following officers were re-elected for the ensuing year: President, W.
P. Macomber, Wilton, N. D.; Vice Presi
dent, Stanley Washburn, Lakewood, N. J.; Secretary and Treasurer, Jeffer stripping operation adjacent to the new power plant of the Ohio Power Co., active development work will start.
Steam shovels and other stripping ceivers, met with representatives of the Ford Motor Co. in Columbus
Holmes Safety Association has been organized at Senecaville, Ohio, de- signated as Chapter No. 95. The officers of this chapter are: J. S. Channel, president; C. O. Harding, vice-presi- dent; M. C. Miley, secretary-treasurer, and W. Christian, educational director.
A charter was granted Cambridge Safety Chapter No. 96, Cambridge, on May 29. The officers of this chapter are: John Rigby, president; Charles Richardson, vice-president; H. C. Knap- per, secretary-treasurer; J. W. Rarick, tion “For Exceptional Service Rendered Humanity.” On the reverse side is the inscription “Benwood Mine Explosion, April 28, 1924.” The medals were
Underwood Colliery, Pennsylvania Coal Co., Throop, Pa.
T h is m in e o n th e E r ie R .R ., n e a r P itt s to n , L a e k a w a n n a C o u n ty , P e n n s y lv a n ia , m in e s c o a l fr o m s ix s e a m s . T he m a n y b e d s in th e a n t h r a c it e re g io n m a k e its o p e ra tio n s m o re p e r m a n e n t t h a n th o s e i n th e b it u m in o u s fie ld .
C O A L A G E Vol. 26, No. 2 proximately 100,000 tons monthly, is
functioning as a separate entity, al- though a subsidiary of the Ritter com
pany. H. T. Wilson is president and T. H. Wilson is sales manager. The properties are located in Mingo County,