Coal Trade Review Shows Mixed Production and Car Supply Trends
In Southwest Virginia coal fields weekly capacity rose from 172000 to 193000 tons but output reached 171000. shipments totaled 143000 tons, 73.8 percent of capacity. Labor conditions worsened with about 20000 tons lost. car shortages eased to roughly sixteen percent loss with 300 more cars available. Demand remained strong while free coal stayed scarce, keeping prices stable.
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Southwest
Virginia
Railroads underperform in New River coal shipment
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway delivered only about half the required cars to New River mines, hampering production as Virginian Railway loads held at four to five days of operation. Virginian expects gains with new 120 ton cars and By-Products Company to mine in Pocahontas seams.
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Gulf
Virginian Railway
Chesapeake and Ohio
Plentiful Car Supply Boosts Norfolk and Western Mines
Production across the Norfolk and Western fields rose in the week ending July 24 as car supply improved, enabling fuller mine operation. Pocahontas district led with 250,504 tons, while Tug River and Thacker districts lagged due to labor shortages and strikes. Forty-four Williamson-area operations shut down amid UMW organizing efforts, with Sharon on Pond Creek newly affected.
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Tug River
United States
van Wert
Thacker
Williamson
Sharon
Pond Creek
United Mine Workers
Ap Pe
Labor and production trends in West Virginia districts
Twenty nine nonoperating companies in the Thacker district are reported. Mer cer county shift and new local electrical union activity are noted. Clinch Valley sees a full Norfolk and Western car run for the first time this year, with production at 39 000 tons amid labor shortages. Pocahontas district week ending July 24 lists total netions and hours, with losses from car and labor shortages and mine disability, and coke production of 14 076 tons.
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Norfolk and Western
Thacker
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pocahontas
Tug River
McDowell County
United Mine Workers
Mercer County
Bramwell
Clinch Valley
Pocahontla
Northeast Kentucky Production Up Amid Coal Shortages
Production rose about six percent in northeast Kentucky with 151000 tons produced, reaching 45 percent of capacity but 183000 tons and 173000 tons of car losses remain. Lake movement expected to exceed seventy cars daily as shipments increase and tidewater movement rises, while Ford buys the Nuttallburg Smokeless Fuel Co holdings pending trustees approval.
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Northeast Kentucky
Ford
Ford Motor Company
Detroit
Nuttallburg Smokeless Fuel Co
Nuttail Estate
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Armature
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Coal Trade Review and Production News
M’dowell
General Contractors
Welch
West VA
Black Diamond Paints
Nartoco
Valdura
Cincinnati
Superior Supply CO
Bluefield, W. VA
Ianac T. Mann
A. J. McBride
Asst
Alexandei
James Ellwood Jones
Thomas F. Farrell
Hawthorne
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Pocahontas” Coal
Tidewater
Great Lakes
Pocahontas Fuel Company Incorporated
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Pocahontas Coe
Pocahontas Fuel Company, Incorporated
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Traction
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Maine
Pocahontas Wharf
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Newport News
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Pocahontas Fuel Co., Inc
New York Ct
Warkine
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New River Field
Winding Gulf
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New England
Pocalontas Nos
Norfolk and Western Fields
Kentucky
Lake & Export Goal Corporation
Pocahontas Field
Coal and Coke Building
R. H. Crozier
Bluefield,w Va
Orel
Huntington, W. Va
American Armature and
Enginerring CO
Zoakka
West Virginia Coal Company
Arch S. Booker
Bluefield Coal and Coke Company
Law & Commerce
Bluefield, West Va
Kentenia Coal Company
C. A. Clyborne District
Typewriter Exchange
Bland Street
Edison-Dick Mimeograph
Royal and Corona
Burgess Electric Company
Biand Street
Bluefield Insurance Agency
General Insurance
Elks Building
Sterling Hardware
Graham, Virginia
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