September 18, 1914.

THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN

633

CONTRACTS OPEN FOR ENGINEERING, IRON
AND STEEL WORK, &C.

Dundee, September 24.—Boiler.—New vertical steel
boiler for the Harbour Trust. Specification from J.
Hannay Thompson, general manager.

Leeds.—Excavating.—For excavating coal and fireclay
underlying about 12 ft. of soil, clay, and shale. Full par-
ticulars of the Leeds Fireclay Company Limited, Mines.
Department, Wortley, Leeds.

London, E.C., September 23.—Rolling Stock.—For
supply, after March 31, 1915, of rolling stock (steel covered
goods bogie wagons, high-sided bogie wagons, bogie timber
trucks, bogie rail trucks, and brake vans, metre gauge), for
the South Indian Railway Company Limited.—Specifications
at the Company’s Offices, 91, York-street, Westminster,
S.W. A charge, which will not be returned, will be made
of 40s. each for the specification.

London, S.E., September 30.—Plant, etc.—The Wool-
wich Borough Council invite separate tenders for the follow-
ing at their baths in High-street, Plumstead : (1) repairs to
air lift pipes of borehole to well; (2) supply and fixing of
air compressor; (3) supply and fixing of new parts to water-
softening plant. Further particulars of Mr.. G-. H. Four-
acre, baths superintendent, Public ' Baths, High-street,
Plumstead, S.E.

London, S.W., September 28.—Steam Turbine Pump.—
One steam turbine-driven centrifugal pump of approxi-
mately 600-horse power; with surface condenser, auxiliary
air and circulating pumps, feed pumps, etc., for the Metro-
politan Water Board. Forms from Office of the Board,
Savoy-court, Strand.

Whitefield (Lancs), September 28.—Mechanical Plant.
—Electric motors, centrifugal pump, for the Urban District
Council. Specification from G. M. Denton, surveyor,
Council Offices,.

COAL, IRON AND ENGINEERING COMPANIES.
. REPORTS AND DIVIDENDS.

Addie (Robert) and Sons Collieries Limited.—The directors
state that no dividend will be paid on the preference shares
for the half-year to June 30, 1914.

British Insulated and Helsby Cables Limited.—The direc-
tors have declared an interim dividend at the rate of 8 per
cent, per annum, less income-tax, on the ordinary shares
for the past half-year.

Bolckow, Vaughan and Company Limited.—The 49th
report of the directors for the year ended June 30 states that
the profit from all sources available for distribution, after
providing for depreciation, is .£246,464 Os. Id., which, added
to the balance of £137,038 7s. 2d. brought forward from
last account, gives a disposable surplus of £383,502 7s. 3d.
The total expenditure upon open hearth steel furnaces, blasts
furnaces, exhaust steam turbines, by-product coke ovens,
benzol plants, electric installations, etc., during the year was
£154,045 16s. 9d., of which sum £132,410 19s. Id. has been
debited to capital account. The balance, viz., £21,634
17s. 8d., it is proposed to write off, and the directors recom-
mend that the year’s profits should be appropriated as
follows : Interest on debentures, £27,947 Is. lOd.; dividend
on preference shares, £23,604 ; dividend on 1,629,760 shares
of 20s. each fully paid at 6 per cent, per annum (of which 2J
per cent, in interim dividend has been paid), £97,785 12s.;
dividend on 1,860,900 shares of 20s. each, with 12s. paid, at
6 per cent, per annum (of which 2} per cent, interim divi-
dend has been paid), £66,992 8s.; writing off expenditure on
various extensions, new plant, machinery, etc., at the works,
collieries, and mines, £21,634 17s. 8d.; balance to be carried
forward, £145,538 7s. 9d. In view of the grave position of
affairs consequent upon the war, the board have decided to
recommend that the final dividend, less tax, be paid, as
regards one-half, on October 1, and the remaining half at
their discretion. Mr. Walter W. Storr has resigned his
position under the company after 24 years’ service, at first as
secretary, and latterlv as general superintendent, and the
directors have elected him to a seat on the board.

Burnyeat, Brown and Company Limited.—The report for
the year to June 30 last, states that the net profit is £133,369,
and the balance brought forward (£36,697) makes £170,066.
The directors recommend a final dividend of 17} per cent.,
making 25 per cent, for the year, free of income-tax, adding
to reserve (and to cover completion of the new coal washery,
coke ovens, and by-product plant) £65,000, and carrying
forward 38,466. The directors have decided, having regard
to the large outlay on capital expenditure in excess of the
capital issued, to recommend that the sum now standing to
the credit of the reserve account (£100,000), together with a
further £20,000, being part of the sum now proposed to be
added to such account (making £120,000 in all) be capitalised
and distributed as a special dividend or bonus in the form
of fully paid ordinary shares of an equivalent nominal
amount among the ordinary shareholders whose names
appear on the register on the 14th inst. in proportion to the
ordinary shares held by them on that date, the dividends
on such bonus shares to be considered to accrue as from
July 1, 1914. The erection of the coal washing, coking, and
by-product plant at Risca is progressing, and it is hoped the
washery and coke ovens may be completed during the next
few months ; but as certain parts of the by-product plant
cannot be obtained from the contractors until the military
operations in Belgium have terminated, the completion of
this portion of the plant is likely to be considerably delayed.

Dalmellington Iron Company Limited.—The profit for the
year ended June 30 last is £29,600 2s. 5d., and adding the
balance from last year, £5,841 0s. 7d., gives a total of
£35,441 3s. Depreciation and redemption amounted to
£13,299 3s. 9d., thus leaving for disposal £22,141 19s. 3d.;
out of this there has been paid on the preference shares for
the year at 5 per cent., and an interim dividend for the half-
year on the ordinary shares at 2} per cent., and it it pro-
posed to pay a final dividend on the ordinary shares of 2}
per cent., making 5 per cent, for the year, free of income-
tax, and carry forward £5,891 19s. 3d. A new coalfield is
being opened up at Craigmark, which, it is expected, will
add considerably to the output. A number of workmen’s
cottages of a superior type are in course of erection, and
will be ready for occupancy by the end of September.

Fernhill Collieries Limited.—The directors have decided
to recommend a dividend of 7 per cent, per annum on the
preference shares for the half-year ended June 30, 1914, and
10 per cent, on the. ordinary shares for the year ended
June 30, 1914, both less income-tax.

Mather and Platt Limited.—The payment of the dividend
of Is. per share on the ordinary shares announced for distri-
bution on September 1 has been postponed, but the dividend
on the preference shares was duly paid.

Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited.
—At the adjourned annual meeting on the 11th inst., an
amended report was submitted recommending the payment
of a dividend of 6 per cent, on preference shares, payable
on June 30, 1915, or such earlier date as the board may
direct. The adoption of the amended report was agreed to
unanimously.

Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Company Limited.—
The directors have decided to recommend the payment of
the usual half-year’s dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per
annum on both the preference and second preference shares,
and a half-year’s dividend at the rate of 5 per cent, per
annum on the ordinary shares. They also recommend that
£20,000 be added to the reserve fund, that £10,000 be placed
to a special reserve fund, that the capital expenditure for
the year and the cost of issuing new bonds be written off
out of profits, and the balance carried forward to the next
account.

NEW COMPANIES.

Anglo-Russian Mining Corporation Limited.—Registered
office, Norfolk House, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. Regis-
tered September 7. (Registered without articles of associa-
tion.) To acquire any mines, mining rights, and metalli-
ferous land in Russia or elsewhere, and in particular five
mining properties in Orenburg, Russia, and to search for,
quarry, smelt, and prepare for market ore, metal, and
mineral substances. Nominal capital, £1,000 in £1 shares.
Minimum subscription, 10 shares. Director : G. MacElwee,
Norfolk House, Norfolk-street, W.C., director of public
companies. Qualification of directors, 10 shares.

East Bristol Collieries Limited.—Private company. Regis-
tered September 8. To acquire mineral and certain other
property of the Bedminster, Easton, Kingswood and Park-
field Collieries Limited, and to carry on business of colliery
proprietors, coke manufacturers, and miners, and to deal
in coal, cannel, iron, ironstone, clay, brick-earth, and to
manufacture and sell patent fuel, briquettes, coke breeze,
culm, bricks, terra-cotta, etc. Nominal capital, £35,000 in
£1 shares. Permanent directors :—F. B. Beauchamp, Sir
E. B. James, W. Garnett, and H. B. Hahlo, Qualification
of above directors, £1,000. Qualification of other directors,
£100.

Stonebridge Electrical Company Limited.—Private com-
pany. Registered office, 1, Stonebridge Park, Willesden.
N.W. Registered September 11. Electrical and general
engineers. Nominal capital, £1,000 in £1 shares. Direc-
tors :—Heinrich Landis, Zug, Switzerland, manufacturer of
electrical appliances: Karl H. Gyr, Zug, Switzerland, manu-
facturer of electrical appliances; and L. R. Lester, 1, Stone-
bridge Park, N.W., engineer.

This list of new companies is taken from the Daily
ppqixter speciallv compiled by Messrs. Jordan and Sons
Limited, company registration agents, Chancery-lane, E.C.

Iron Ore Output in United States.—According to statistics
recently completed by Mr. Ernest F. Burchard, of the
United States Geological Survey, the production and ship-
ments of iron ore in the United States exceeded those of
any previous year. The crude iron ore mined in the United
States in 1913 amounted to 61,980,437 long tons, compared
with 55,150,147 tons mined in 1912—an increase of 6,830,290
tons, or 12’38 per cent. The iron ore shipments from the
mines in the United States in 1913 amounted to 59,643,098
long tons, valued at $130,905,558, compared with 57,017,614
long tons, valued at $107,050,153, marketed in 1912—an
increase in quantity of 2,625,484 long tons, or 4’60 per cent.,
and in value of $23,855,405, or 22’28 per cent. The average
price of ore per ton for the whole country in 1913 was $2’19,
compared with $1’88 in 1912. These quantities of ore, both
mined and marketed, include the iron ore used for fluxing
other metallic ores at smelters in the Middle and Western
States, but do not include the iron ore sold for the manu-
facture of paint. The domestic iron ore actually marketed
for the manufacture of pig iron amounted in 1913 to
59,580,256 long tons, valued at $130,669,970, compared with
56,929,165 long tons, valued at $106,805,838, in 1912. Iron’
ore was mined in 28 States in 1913. The rank of the five
States producing the largest quantity of iron ore—Minne-
sota, Michigan, Alabama, New York, and Wisconsin—
remained unchanged in 1913, but there were a few changes
in the relative rank of certain of the smaller producers. The
Minnesota iron ranges are yielding at present considerably
more iron ore than is produced in all the rest of the States
together, having furnished 62’37 per cent, of the total for
the United States in 1913. The Lake Superior district,
comprising all the mines in Minnesota and Michigan and
those in Northern Wisconsin, mined 52,377,362 tons in
1913, or 84’51 per cent, of the total. The Lake Superior
district includes the Vermilion, Mesabi, Cuyuna, Penokee-
Gogebic, Marquette, and Menominee ranges, in Minnesota.
Michigan, and Wisconsin. The Menominee range includes
the Crystal Falls, Metropolitan, Iron River, and Florence
areas; the Marquette range includes the Republic and
Swanzy areas. The Baraboo and Iron Ridge areas of
Southern Wisconsin and the Spring Valley area of North-
Western Wisconsin are frequently also included in the Lake
Superior district. In addition to these ranges, there are
several iron ore districts on the Canadian side of Lake
Superior, the principal ones of which are the Michipicoten,
Animiki, Matawin, and Atikokan. Much development work
was done on the Cuyuna range, which made its first ship-
ments in 1911. An analysis of the reported quantity mined in
1913 in the Lake Superior district shows that the Mesabi
range mined 36,378.671 tons* of iron ore. compared with
32,604,756 tons in 1912, an increase of 11’57 per cent.; the
Menominee range 4,997,246 tons, compared with 4,465J66
tons in 1912, an increase of 11’91 per cent.; the Gogebic
range 4,743,515 tons, compared with 3,926,632 tons in 1912,
an increase of 20’80 per cent.: the Marquette range
3,977,808 tons, compared with 3,545,012 tons in 1912, an
increase of 12’21 per cent.: the Vermilion range 1,536,115
tons, compared with 1,457,273 tons in 1912, an increase of
5’41 per cent.: and Cuyuna range, which in 1913 entered upon
its third year as a shipper of ore, 744,007 tons, compared
with 369.739 tons in 1912, an increase of 101’22 per cent.
The Mesabi range produced 69’46 per cent, of the entire
Lake Superior output, and nearly 59 per cent, of the entire
production of the United States.

ABSTRACTS OF PATENT SPECIFICATIONS
RECENTLY ACCEPTED.

3787 (1914). Improvements in and Relating to Miners'
Safety Lamps. O. Bailly, of 2, Rue de Harlez, Liege,
Belgium.—Relates to a miners’ lamp of the kind having an
incandescent mantle which is fed with hydrocarbon evapo-
rated by means of a wick, and consists in the various details
of construction and combination of parts as hereinafter
described and claimed. The annexed drawing shows in
cross section one form of construction. For the purpose of
obtaining the necessary degree of security, and enabling the
lamp to be used in the presence of deleterious gases or fire-
damp, the crystal glass chimney 1, of cylindrical shape,
carries at its top two caps, 2, 3, of metal gauze, surrounded
by a metallic fitting 34, which is arranged in known manner
and screwed on to a metal ring 4. The latter is supported
by uprights 5 on a ring 6, which fits on a screw-threaded
part 7 of the base of the lamp. By screwing the part 7 the
ring 4 is caused to exert a pressure upon the glass chimney
1. The base of the lamp consists of a closed chamber 8,
which is of cylindrical or any other shape, and which serves
as a reservoir for the fuel. In the centre of the top 9 of
the reservoir is fixed the vaporiser, which is composed of
three co-axially arranged tubes, 10, 11, and 12, assembled
together at their base by soldering. The intermediate
tube 11 is, at its lower part, perforated by circular aper-
tures 13. The central tube 12 is open at its base and
closed at its top by a lid 14. The latter is provided in its
centre with a screwed-in stopper 15, having a perforation of
small diameter. Below said stopper 15 is arranged a hollow
rod 16, composed of a metal being a good conductor for heat.
The interior of the reservoir 8 is filled up with inert
material (cotton, sponge, or any other material) so as to
prevent movement of the inflammable liquid (benzine or the
like). The central tube 12 of the vaporiser contains a
cotton wick or other filling material, which at the lower
part of said tube enters the reservoir 8, and is thus in con-
tact with the absorbent mass filling up said reservoir. The
lid 14 is surmounted by a Bunsen burner 17, which is
initially heated, for instance, by means of a piece of asbestos
steeped in alcohol, or by means of a suitable benzine lamp.
The heating of the burner evaporates the liquid contained in
the wick, and produces a pressure in the tube 12 which
forces the vapour through the jet orifice of the stopper 15.
The jet of vapour enters the Bunsen burner 17, and is
burnt in the interior of the incandescent mantle 18. The
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mantle rod, 19, of well-conducting metal, the said rod trans-
mitting its heat to the burner portions, to the lid 14, and
to the rod 16 of the vaporiser. Thus, having caused the lid
to become heated, the exterior source of heat can be
removed. The evaporation continues automatically by
transmission of heat, and the liquid is vaporised as it rises
up through the wick, the vapour pressure being maintained
automatically and in an uninterrupted manner. The
Bunsen burner is provided at its foot with air inlet holes,
20, capable of being more or less covered by a surrounding
ring 21, having correspondingly arranged holes, the said
ring being operated by means of an arm 22, which, in its
turn, is operated by a handle 23, controlled by the arm 24,
arranged beneath the reservoir, which arrangement allows
of having the air entrance varied from nothing to the
maximum amount. * The glass chimney 1 bears on its base
upon a metallic ring 25, which in its turn bears on a ring-
shaped cylinder 26, composed of any heat insulating
material. Below the said cylinder is arranged a metal
plate or a metal ring 27, serving to enclose the tube 11 of
the vaporiser nearly tightly. The part 27 is carried by an
air inlet ring 28, provided in known manner with two metal
gauzes 29, the said ring 28 being arranged on the lid 9 of
the reservoir. The air necessary for combustion and
interior circulation enters through apertures 30 arranged
in sufficient number in a ring 31, overlapping the ring 6.
Then the air passes through apertures 32 arranged in the
top of the said ring 6, penetrates the ring 28, and the two
metal gauzes 29 moves downwards into the ring-shaped
space 10, 11, where it causes the reservoir 8 to cool, passes
through the holes 13, rises through ring-shaped space 11,
12, where, by becoming heated, it causes the innermost tube
12 to cool. Leaving the open upper end of the tube 11,
part of the air enters the Bunsen burner, where it is mixed
with the central jet of vapour, whereas the second part
rises past the burner towards the top of the lamp, from
which it is discharged into the open air, after being mixed
with the burnt gases. (Three claims.)

4003 (1914). Improvements in Regulating Mechanism
for Compressors. W. J. Mellersh-Jackson, 28, Southamp-
ton-buildings, London, Middlesex. (Communication from
Ingersoll-Rand Company, 11, Broadway, New York,
U.S.A.).—Relates to regulators for fluid compressors, and
more particularly to that class of regulator whereby a com-
pressor can be unloaded to a greater or less extent when its
full capacity is not required, thus economising in the power
expended in operating the compressor. The object is to
provide a means whereby, when a compressor is to be
operated for a long period of time, partially unloaded, the