January 16, 1914,

THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

141

Prices at pit.

Current prices.	L'st week'? prices.	Last year's prices.
18/6	18/6	18/
16/	16/	16/6
14/9	14/9	14/6
14/	14/	13/
15/	15/	14/
11/	11/	11/
7/6	7/6	8/
16/6	16/6	17/6
14/	14/	13/9
15/	15/	14/6
11/	11/	10/
10/	10/	8/9
8/3	8/3	7/6

Staffordshire (including
Cannock Chase):—

House coal, best deep ...
Do.	seconds deep

Do.	best shallow

Do. seconds do.

Best hard ...........

Forge coal............

Slack ................

Warwickshire:—

House coal, best Ryder..

Do. hand-picked
cobs ...............

Best hard spires .....

Forge (steam) ........

D.S. nuts (steam) ....

Small (do.)	...

IRON.

The attendance was well up to the average, and the
improvement in demand which was apparent at the
quarterly meeting was maintained. The trade of the dis-
trict may be described as normal as regards bulk, with
prices on the low side. During the week substantial sales
of standard bars have been made at the reduced basis
of £8 10s. per ton. Consumers have also taken advantage
of the low prices of unmarked bars to cover their require-
ments for the current quarter. They are able to secure
supplies at £6 15s. to £6 17s. 6d. per ton. Small rounds,
squares and flats ar© fairly active at the basis price of £615s.
a ton at makers* works, f- basis; commoner qualities may be
obtained for 2s. 6d. less. Nut and bolt iron is in increasing
sale, but the competition of Belgian makers keeps prices
low. The average is £6 10s. to .£6 12s. 6d. per ton, delivered
in Wednesbury district. The increased activity in th©
finished branches is having its effect on pig iron sales, which
are steady and substantial, but producers have great difficulty
in getting the higher rates which they claim they are entitled
to. Northampton forge is in the neighbourhood of 50s. a ton
and best Staffordshire 51s. to 52s. Superior brands of
Northampton fetch 2s. more. The galvanised sheet trade is
still progressive, and there is no reason to anticipate any
slackening for the East Indies, South America, and other
colonial markets, though a prolongation of the trouble in
South Africa will have serious consequences. Current
prices are <£11 5s. to £11 10s. at ports. No change
is to be recorded in gas trip. Rumours have recently
been current of an attempt to form a working agreement
in the tube industry between English, German and Belgian
firms, and if this should be brought about, gas strip
prices will probably be affected as well. The price for
small hoops of strong gauges is not more than £6 10s. a
ton, and for lighter gauges £7 2s. 6d. to £7 5s. a ton at
works. Business is quiet. Black sheets for galvanising are
in better request, and command £8 2s. 6d. to £8 5s. per ton,
with the usual extras for lighter gauges. Steelmakers are
receiving new business with fair regularity, and are kept
fully employed. Demi-products are quoted £4 15s. to £5 a
ton for Bessemer largets and billets, and 2s. 6d. to 5s, extra
for Siemens qualities.

Lychssy,

CML

With regard to the house coal trade of this district
orders have been, coming in more freely during the past
few days, presumably owing to the colder weather, and the
collieries have, as a result, been more regularly employed,
full time being managed by the majority of the pits.
Stocks, too, are comparatively light. The orders coming to
hand from the inland merchants are fairly strong. Ship-
ments are rather better this week. Most of the steam coal
pits are doing good work, but the enquiry in force is only
an average one.

Prices at pithead.

	Current	L’st week’s	Last year’s
House coals:—	prices.	prices.	prices.
Block 		17/6	17/6	16/6
Forest		16/6	16/6	15/6
Rubble 		16/9	16/9	15/9
Nuts 		15/	15/	14/
Rough slack 	  Steam coal	6/6	6/6	8/
Large 		12/6-13/	12/6-13/	12/6-13/
Small 		8/ - 9/	8/6- 9/6	8/6- 9/

Prices Is. 9d. extra f.o.b. Lydney or Sharpness.

Devon, Cornwall, and South Coast,

Plymouth.

COAL

Messrs. W. Wade and Son report that owing to the colder
weather there is an improved demand for house coal at the
south coast ports, based on the late prices and freights.
Stocks are being fairly well drawn upon. Freights remain
unaltered.

TO M-FLITE mDE

Business has not been too brisk the last few days. There
was a fair amount of enquiry, but few transactions of any
moment! resulted. Makers are, on the whole, standing
to their quotations, and most of them are booked up over
the next month or so; some, indeed, say they are comfortably
booked for the first quarter of the year. Current quotations
maybe called:—Coke tins: I C 14 x 20 (112 sh. 108 lb.),
12s. 9d. to 12s. 10|d. per box; IC 28 x 20 (112 sh. 216 lb.),
25s. 6d. to 25s. 9d. per box; I C 28 x 20 (56. sh. 108 1b.),
13s. 3d. to 13s. 4|d. per box ; I C 14 x 18:1 (124 sh. 110 lb.),
13s. 3d. to 13s. 4|d. per box; I C 14 x 19£ (120 sh. 1101b.),
13s. 3d. to 13s. 4|d. per box; I C 20 x 10 (225 sh. 156 lb.),
18s. 9d. to 18s. lO.Vd. per hox; I C squares and odd sizes, 13s.
to 13s. 3d. basis. Charcoal tins are in quiet demand, and
are quoted 14s. 9d. to 15s. for I C 14 x 20 “ Allaway " grade.
Terne-plates are in better request. Quotations for IC 28 x 20
run 22s. 6d. per box and upwards. Coke wasters meet with
a steady enquiry. Quotations :—C W 14 x 20, 12s. 3d. per
box; C*W 28 x 20, 24s. 6d. to 24s. 9d. per box; C W 14 x 18-|,
10s. 7|d. to 10s. 9d. per box; C W 20 x 10, 14s. 10|d. to 15s.
per box—-all f.o.b. Wales, less 4 per cent.

Til	BSat TM®.

Thursday, January 15.

The London coal trade during the past week has been
exceptionally busy. All the depots report an increasing
trade, and the deliveries are very steady. The hitch at the
King's Cross and St. Pancras depots with the carmen and
loaders seriously interfered with the deliveries in that
district, and brought an unusually large number of merchants
on to the market on Monday. Seaborne house coals were
firm, but as no Durham cargoes were on offer except under
contract, the Yorkshire qualities found a better demand.
Sharlston Wallsend wers quoted at 22s., and Sharlston Main
at 20s. 6d. 32 vessels were entered for Monday's market as
arriving in the River Thames, and 15 for Wednesday. The
north-east gales along the coast and in the Channel have
led to a great amount of havoc amongst the smaller craft on
the River Thames, and considerably lessened the number of
barges leaded with coal, capable of being moved to their
respective wharves for unloading. An important meeting
was held at the Guildhall on Friday last in connection with
canal development, and recommendations were agreed upon
asking local authorities, which would probably benefit by
the proposed waterways, to contribute a proportionate
amount of the cost. On Monday the ordinary routine of the
Exchange was varied by a visit of a good number of the
loaders and coal porters of the King's Cross and St. Pancras
district, who had come to meet the committee of the Coal
Merchants' Society with reference to an increase of 3d. per
ton for unloading high-sided trucks at the various depots.
This was agreed to, as the masters all felt that to lift a
2 cwt. sack of coal the extra height must entail an increased
strain on the workman, but a further grievance was found
amongst those working in the bays and shoots, and loading
in | cwt. bags. Work had been entirely suspended all day
Monday, and on Tuesday also, and those who had been
granted the concession in regard to high-sided wagons now
remained out in support of the other section. A further
meeting was held on Tuesday, and the advance was conceded.
Coal for hospital use was agreed should be loaded, but
otherwise the whole of the depots in the neighbourhood
were at a standstill. The carmen were in a state of enforced
idleness, whilst the dispute lasted. A meeting is called for
a week hence to deal v/ith one or two minor matters which
may be looked upon as smaller questions. The continued
cold weather has considerably hardened the colliery prices.
On Wednesday last, the merchants decided to advance public
prices 6d. per ton from Thursday, except best coal, which
remains unaltered. Stove coal was, however, advanced Is.
per ton. This brings the prices up to:—Best Wallsend 30s.,
best Silkstone 29s. 6d., Derby brights 28s. 6d., and stove
coal 23s. 6d. A good many conflicting opinions were
expressed, and some of the merchants complained that any
advance will only lead to a further move in colliery
prices. Factory coals are in steady demand, but the prices
for steam coals are not so buoyant as the household
qualities. The demand all round is firm. The railway
companies are reported to have renewed the Yorkshire
steam coal contracts at Ils. 6d. per ton, the same figure as
last year.

Market quotations (pit mouth) :

Note.—Although every care is exercised to secure
accuracy, we cannot hold ourselves responsible for these
prices, which are, further, subject to fluctuations.

	Current	Last week's
Yorkshire.	prices.	prices.
Wath Main best coal		14/	14/
Do. nuts				13/	13/
Birley cube Silkstone		13/6	13/6
Do. branch coal 		16/6	16/6
Do. seconds		12/6	12/6
Barnsley Bed Silkstone		14/	14/
West Riding Silkstone 		13/6	13/6
Kiveton Park Hazel 		13/6	13/6
Do.	cobbles		13/6	13/6
Do.	nuts		12/6	12/6
Do.	hard steam		12/6	12/6
New Sharlston Wallsend 		15/	15/
Wharncliffe Silkstone branch	16/		
Do. Flockton Main ...	15/6	—
Do. Athersley house coal	12/.	—
Newton Chambers best Silks.	—t	15/6
Do. Grange best Silks.	15/6	
Do. Hesley Silkstone...	14/	14/
Do. Rockingham selec.	14/	14/
Do. Rockingham Silks. Derbyshire.	13/6	13/6
Wingfield Manor best		13/	13/
Do.	large nuts...	12/9	12/9
Do.	small nuts...	10/	10/
Do.	kitchen coal	10/6	10/6
West Hallam Kilburn brights	13/	13/
Do.	do. nuts ...	12/9	12/9
Do.	London brights	11/6	11/6
Do.	bright nuts		11/6	11/6
Do.	small nuts 			10/	10/
Manners Kilburn brights		13/	13/
Do.	do. nuts 		12/9	12/9
Shipley do. brights 		13/	13/
Do.	do. nuts 		12/9	12/9
Mapperley brights		13/	13/
Do. hard steam 		12/9	12/9
Cossall Kilburn brights.		13/	13/
Do. do. nuts		12/9	12/9
Tro well Moor brights		12/6	12/6
Do. do. nuts..	..	12/	12/
Grassmoor Main coal		14/6	14/6
Do. Tupton 		13/	13/
Do.	do. nuts		13/6	13/6

Last
year's
prices.

13/
12/
11/6
15/
11/
12/6
12/
13/
13/
12/
11/
14/
14
13/6
11/6
15/
14/
13/
13/6
13/

12/
11/9

9/6
10/
12/
11/9
11/
10/9

9/6
12/
11/9
12/
11/9
12/
11/9
12/
11/9
11/6

11/
12/6
11/
12/

* Where no quotation is given, information as to changes
in price was not to hand at the time of going to press.

t Price withdrawn.

Derbyshire—(cont).	Current prices.	Last week's prices.	Last year's prices.
Clay Cross Main coal		14/6	14/6	12/6
Do.	do. cubes 		14/6	14/6	12/
Do. special Derbys		13/6	13/6	11/9
Do. house coal		13/	13/	11/
Pilsley best blackshale 		14/6	14/6	12/6
Do. deep house coal 		13/	13/	10/6
Do. hard screened cobbles	12/	12/	10/
Hardwick best Silkstone 		14/6	14/6	12/6
Do. Cavendish	brights...	13/6	13/6	11/6
Do. cubes 		14/6	14/6	11/6
Nottinghamshire.			
Clifton picked hards 		12/6	12/6	12/
Do. small hards		12/6	12/6	11/
Do. deep large steam 		10/6	10/6	12/
Annesley best hards 		12/6	12/6	12/
Do. bright cobbles 		12/6	12/6	11/3
Linby best hards		12/6	12/6	12/
Do. bright cobbles		12/6	12/6	I1 /3
Digby London brights 		13/6	13/6	A-./O 12/
Do. cobbles 		13/6	13/6	12/
Do. top hards 		13/	13/	13/
Do. High Hazel coal		15/	15/	14/
Bestwood hard steam coal		12/6	Av/ 12/6	AU/  12/
Do. bright cobbles 		12/6	12/6	11/3
Hucknall Torkard main hards	12/9	12/9	12/3
Do. do. cobbles		11/6	11/6	11/3
Do. do. nuts 		11/	11/	11/
Do. do. High Hazel H.P.	I.  15/3	15/3	14/9
Do. do. London brights..	12/9	12/9	12/3
Do. do. large nuts 		12/9	12/9	12/3
Do. do. bright nuts		11/9	11/9	11/3
Sherwood H.P. hards			12/6	12/6	12/
Do. hard steam		11/6	11/6	1  10/6
Do. brights 			11/9	11/9	11/3
Do. cobbles 		11/6	11/6	11/3
Do. large nuts 		11/9	11/9	11/9
Warwickshire.			
Griff large steam coal		11/6	11/6	10/9
Do. screened cobbles .........	12/6	12/6	11/
Do. bakers’ nuts 		12/	12/	11/
Do. loco Two Yard hards ...	14/	14/	13/6
Do. Ryder nuts		12/6	12/6	11/6
Do. do. cobbles 		13/6	13/6	12/6
Nuneaton steam coal ... 		11/6	11/6	10/9
Do. screened cobbles ...	1  12/6	12/6	11/
Do. nuts		12/	12/	11/
Haunchwood steam 		11/6	11/6	10/9
Do.	screened cobbles	12/6	12/6	11/
Do.	nuts 		12/	12/	11/
Wyken steam coal 		11/6	11/6	10/9
Do. screened cobbles 		12/6	12/6	11/
Do. nuts		12/	12/	11/
Exhall Ell coal spires		14/	14/	12/6
Do. brights 				—
Do. large steam coal		H/6	11/6	10/9
Do. best screened cobbles			—
Do. large nuts 				—	
L eices ter shire.			
Snibston steam		10/	10/	10/6
Do. cobbles 		XU/ 10/6	AV/ 10/6	10/3
Do. nuts 		10/6	10/6	10/6
South Leicester steam 		10/	10/	10/
Do. cobs, or small hards	10/6	10/6	10/6
Do. nuts 		10/6	10/6	10/6
Whitwick steam		10/	10/	10/6
Do. roasters 		AV/  10/6	10/6	10/6
Do. cobbles 		10/6	10/6	10/6
Do. nuts		10/6	10/6	10/6
Netherseal hards 		18/	18/	17/
Do.	Eureka		AV/  13/	13/	a. • 1 12/6
Do.	kitchen		AV/  10/6	10/6	10/6
Ibstock kibbles 		11/	11/	10/
Do. large nuts 		11/	11/	10/
Do. bakers' nuts 		-LX/  10/6	10/6	9/6
Do. Main nuts		10/6	10/6	10/
Do. hards 		10/	10/	9/
Granville New Pit cobbles		AV/  11/	11/	11/6
Do. Old Pit cobbles 		11/	11/	10/6
North Staffordshire.			
Talk-o’-th’-Hill best 		13/6	13/6	13/6
Sneyd best, selected 			15/	15/	14/6
Do. deeps		AV/ 14/6	14/6	14/
Silverdale best		14/	14/	15/
Do. cobbles 		Au/  13/	13/	14/
Apedale best 		14/	14/	13/6
Do. seconds		AU/  13/	13/	13/
Podmore Hall best			AV/  14/	14/	13/6
Do. seconds		A A/  13/	13/	13/
South Staffs. {Cannock District).			
Walsall Wood steam coal,			
London brights	11/6	11/6	13/
Do.	shallow one way	11/6	11/6	12/
Do.	deep nuts 		12/6	12/6	11/6
Cannock steam		11/6	11/6	11/
Coppice deep coal 					AA/  13/
Do. cobbles 				AO/  12/
Do. oneway	 				12/
Do. shallow coal 				A 25/ 12/
Cannock Chase deep main		16/	16/	17/
Do. Deep kitchen cobs	12/	12/	12/
Do. best shallow mair	14/	14/	14/
Do. shallow kibbles ...	13/9	13/9	13/6
Do. best brights 		13/6	13/6	13/
Do. yard cobbles 		13/6	13/6	13/6
Do. yard nuts 		12/6	12/6	12/6
Do. bakers’ nuts 		10/9	10 9	10/3
Do. screened hards ...	11/9	11/9	U/

JSaaarB. EStahasa, S’awei; e and Co.’s Baport.

Friday, January 9.—The seaborne house coal market was
steady to-day, with no cargoes on offer of either Durham or
Yorkshire. Best (Durham) 21s. 6d., seconds (Durham)
20s. 6d., Sharlston Main (Yorks) 19s. 6d. Cargoes 23.

Monday, January 12.—There were no ready cargoes of
either Durham or Yorkshire pressing for sale. Best
(Durham) 21s. 6d., seconds (Durham) 20s. 6d., Sharlston
Main (Yorks) 19s. 6d. Cargoes 32.

Wednesday, January 14.—The demand for seaborne house
coal continued very good to-day, a part cargo of Yorkshire
best and seconds was disposed of at an advance of 6d. and Is.
per ton. No Durham on offer. Sharlston W.E. (Yorks)
22s., Sharlston Main (Yorks) 20s. 6d. Cargoes 15.