119 PENNSYLVANIA COAL COMPANY. George A. Hoyt, president; Edwin H. Mead, treasurer; Wm. E. Street, secretary; capital, $5,000,000; office, No. 1 Broadway; post-office box, 1071.] JOHN H. JONES, Esq., Acct., Phila., Pa. : NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 1886. DR. SIR: Below please find tonnage of this company for November, 1886: Shipped East totide... 66 on lines West via Erie & L. & S Total... Uusd for steam, &c., at mines (not included above). Yours, truly, Tons. 101, 345. 11 18, 369. 13 26, 812. 19 146, 528.03 5,428 1,053 17, 200 WM. H. ZIEGLER, Mr. JNO. H. JONES, NEW YORK, LAKE ERIE & WESTERN RAILROAD CO., Acct., 227 South 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa.: VICE-PRESIDENT'S OFFICE, DEAR SIR: I beg to advise you that our anthracite tonnage for the month of November amounted to fifty-eight thousand nine hundred and thirteen tons and fifteen cwt. (58,913 tons & 15 cwt.). Yours, truly, S. M. FELTON, per S., First Vice-Presdt. 120 FORWARDING OFFICE LEHIGH VALLEY R. R. CO., PACKERTON, PA. Statement showing total tonnage over L. V. & P. N. Y. Rds. for each region, with distribution and deductions. November, '86. Statement showing total tonnage over L. V. & P. N. Y. Rds.-Continued. Statement of anthracite coal tonnage for month of November, 1886, compared with same period last year. [This statement includes the entire production of anthracite coal, excepting that consumed by employés, and for steam and heating purposes about the mines.] November, November, Difference. For year For year Difference. Philad'a & Read. R. Lehigh Valley R. R.. Del., Lack. & W. R. Del. and Hud. Canal R Total 1, 246, 875. 18 1, 174, 452. 09 Inc. 72, 423. 09.10, 687, 453, 06 10, 545, 064, 03 Inc. 142,289.03 627, 332.16 660, 544. 16 Dec. 33, 212. 005, 587, 536. 15 5, 478, 388, 02 Inc. 109, 148, 15 4 598, 890. 01 Inc. 95,498. 18 2,983, 659, 00 Inc, 233, 195, #4 3, 092, 337. 11 Inc. 97.97.15 1, 355, 043. 13 Dec. 67, 88, 13 573, 322. 03 Inc. 87,927.22 3,277, 636. 11 3, 279, 116. 01 Dec. 1, 479. 10/29, 325, 012. 05 28, 626, 704. 13 Inc. 695. 07.12 The stock of coal on hand at tide-water shipping points, November 30th, 1886, was 393,202 tons; on October 31st, 1886, 440,962 tons; decrease, 47,760 tons. ROOM 12, No. 227 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, 123 ANTHRACITE COAL TONNAGE. JOHN H. JONES, Accountant. Statement of anthracite coal tonnage for month of December, 1885, compared with same period last year. [This statement includes the entire production of anthracite coal, excepting that consumed by employés, and for steam and heating purposes about the mines.] *Corrected statement of the tonnage of N. Y., L. E. & W. R. R. for 1884 increases the total production for that year 38.702 tons. In addition, 46,247 tons, which was included in the tonnages of other interests for 1884, is claimed as chargeable to that company. The stock of coal on hand at tide-water shipping points, December 31st, 1885, was 754,545 tons; on November 30th, 670,403 tons; increase, 84,142 tons. The amount on hand December 31st, 1884, was 874,681 tons. Of the total production in 1885, 16,236,470 tons, or 51.34 per cent. was from the Wyoming region; 5,898,634 tons, or 18.65 per cent. from Lehigh region, and 9,488,426 tons, or 30.01 per cent. from Schuylkill region. Eastern competitive tonnage, including all coal which for final consumption or in transit, reaches any point on Hudson River or the Bay of New York, or which passes out of the capes of the Delaware. 1885 1884 Tons. 11, 956, 587 12,009,855 JOHN H. JONES, Accountant. No. 227 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, 124 Philadelphia, January, 1885. Q. Where is the Pennsylvania Coal Company located? A. The Pennsylvania Coal Company's collieries are located between Scranton and Wilkesbarre. I think they have one or two collieries below Pittston. I was going to say all were between Scranton and Pittston. Q. It has a railroad of its own? A. It did have a railroad of its own until recently, and I am not able to say how far it is connected with the railroad which takes its place. 44 PENN Q. What railroad was that? A. They formerly operated a gravity railroad between Pittston and Hawley in connection with the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, and the Erie Canal. That has, however, recently been abandoned, and a new road called the Erie and Wy oming Railroad has been built to take its place, not exactly upon its line, but to take its place; one being a gravity road and the other a locomotive road. Q. It has no connection with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at all! A. That I know nothing about. I presume not. Q. We desire you to produce a complete statement of your statements, running to the time the organization was formed in December, 1884 ? A. I will do so. Q. With whom did you have occasion to correspond with reference to your duties as accountant and statistician? A. I communicated verbally with Mr. Joseph S. Harris. I have no relations with anybody else particularly in that position, excepting so far as to receive the reports and correct clerical errors that might occur. Q. Did you have occasion to visit them to adjust reports and accounts? A. Occasionally that would occur. Q. Have you any correspondence at all between yourself and any one else in the conduct of this association, or with respect to your duties? 125 A. I have correspondence relating to the figures themselves simply as a clerical matter. I have not got it here. Q. Have you any as to quotas, or apportionments, or proportions, or allotments! A. I wrote the letters to each of the interests each month, and signed Mr. Harris's name to them. Q. Making monthly allotments? A. Announcing the allotments as they were arrived at upon the basis of percentages. Mr. Harris would announce to me the amount that was supposed to be neces sary for the month, and I would divide that in the allotment percentages according to the data I had and notify the various interests. Q. Will you please produce that correspondence? A. I have the letter books here with the original letters. I have made copies of each particular form that we used during the whole period, beginning in February, 1885. These copies were sent to each one of the interests named. (Witness produced copies of forms of letters.) Q. I do not care about all the letters, one after another, as this shows the form; but we would like to know the allotment to each company for each month during this period of two years. Can you give us that information? A. Do you mean the amount that was allotted to each company for each month during the period? Q. Yes. A. I have not got it in tabulated form. I can give you the statement. Q. If you prefer to put it in tabulated form you can do that, and give it to us in a statement. A. I will do so. Q. Have you any correspondence of any kind with respect to the price of coal! A. None whatever. Q. Any circulars? A. None whatever. Q. Did you notify any parties as to the price of coal at any time? A. No, sir; never at any time. 126 Q. Was any action taken by either the Anthracite Association, or its allotment committee, or any other committee, or officer, or by you, with respect to prices or values of coal? A. So far as I am concerned, I can answer no. So far as the others whom you have named are concerned, I know nothing about their actions. I never had any meeting with them, and I know nothing about it. Q. How has the price of coal been regulated during the past two years? A. I could not tell you. Q. What other correspondence have you? A. As I tell you, I have correspondence here relating to the details of our figures. Sometimes a clerical error would occur, or something like that. Q. Mere questions of clerical mistakes? A. Yes, sir. They are simply little matters that occur every day. Q. Have you any correspondence with respect to these cases, or any of these cases of adjustments of accounts between the different companies? A. Yes, sir; I think there might be something of the kind here. Q. I should like you to produce any letters of that character. |