118 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN July 16, 1915. EXPORTS OF COAL, COKE AND MANUFACTURED FUEL DURING 1913 AND 1914. Statement Showing for each of the Years 1913 and 1914 the Quantities of Coal, Coke and Manufactured Fuel Exported from the Principal Districts of the United Kingdom to the Principal Groups of Foreign Countries and British Possessions.* Bristol Channel ports. North- western ports. North-eastern ports. Humber ports. Other ports on the east coast. East Scotland. West Scotland. All other ports. Total for the United Kingdom. 1913. 1914. 1913. 1914. 1913. 1914. 1913. 1914. 1913. 1914. 1913. 1914. 1913. 1914. 1913 1914. i 1913. i 1914. Russia, Sweden, Norway, Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tns. Tons. Tons. Tons. fl,820,391 1,237,587 142,828 107,464 12,132,403 9,545,633 7,008,151 4,566,245 374,91 223,195 7,<'50,067 5,085,090 475,910 360,765 — 297 29,604,664 21,126,276 Denmark, Germany, $6,031 20,104 22,358 9,838 182,544 239,217 131,492 106,352 262,127 225,907 130,100 123,118 10,769 3,285 6,767 3,053 772,188 730,874 Netherlands, Belgium, Iceland, Whale Fisheries, and Deep Sea Fisheries. §14,723 11,066 — — — — — 3,489 1,329 — 50 18,212 12,445 France, Switzerland, 120,723,141 17,940,865 457,693 334,538 10,502,064 9,312,271 1,583,169 1,302,838 45,984 68,806 1,039,009 972,163 1,413,202 1,530,479 3,487 955 35,767,749 31,462,915 Channel Islands, Por- $6,213 51,160 5,646 8,982 189,305 188,582 24,152 14,557 3,081 24,516 15,300 10,265 15,493 13,463 100 1,217 3(9,290 312,742 tugal Azores and Madeira, Spain and Canaries, Gibraltar, Italy, Austria-Hun- gary, Malta, Servia, Montenegro, Greece, Bulgaria, Roumania, Turkey, Cyprus, Tri- poli, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Spanish Ports in North Africa, and Egypt. §1,282,496 977,302 11 49 5 2,213 43 5,629 1,168 1,290,349 978,567 West Coast of Africa, J477.051 298,201 6,120 8,916 7,640 51,482 4,828 3,899 — 4 2,000 3,019 4,196 — — — 501,835 365,521 Ascension, and St. $83 227 647 760 — — 100 — — 256 — — — 1,586 1,087 Helena. §93,918 80,973 1,051 1,287 — — — — — 5 1,052 — — — — — 96,471 82,265 British South Africa ... f38,858 28,650 5,132 2,132 8,272 394 — — 243 101 — 5,804 12,697 8,311 — — 65,202 45,408 $2,363 28,803 781 108 1,929 802 — — 90 — — — 698 372 — — 25,861 30,085 §- 3,398 — 4 — — — — — — — 4 3,398 East Coast of Africa, 1309,342 253,268 4,056 4,749 4,303 17,306 20 — 75 — — — 1,388 152 — — 319,184 275,475 Mauritius and Depen- $22 191 45 20 652 1,134 7 62 — — 821 545 — — 1,647 1,952 dencie -, Seychelles, Madagascar, Bourbon, Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and Aden and Dependencies. §17,938 20,863 1,513 17,938 22,376 Indian Continent fl31,428 117,119 5/53 8,555 24,531 25,365 15,927 4,767 — — — — 1,753 2,455 — — 179,192 158,261 $,737 6,594 311 353 3,192 2,471 100 — — — — 3,055 1,170 — — 13,295 10,688 §13,875 5,540 — — — — — — — — — — 222 126 — — 14,097 5,666 Ceylon, Straits Settle- 1406,135 338,383 15,320 17,272 4,616 13,612 4,953 — — — — — 2,033 329 — — 433,062 369,596 ments, Java, Other $,391 7,671 2,035 136 13,289 8,334 4 — — — 16,417 12,215 — 35, 36 28,356 Dutch Possessions in Indian Seas,Philippine Islands, Siam, French Indo-China, Hong- Kong, China, Wei-hai- Wei, Korea, Japan, Australasia, and Pacific Islands. §11,223 4,105 I 1 11,223 4,106 Canada, Newfoundland, 174,105 61,786 8,164 10,883 3,868 5,571 3,792 1,226 3,320 69 7,771 4,275 88 312 112,987 — — 189,332 196.797 St. Pierre and Mique- $,188 2,743 2,253 239 2,057 11,042 — 547 43 110 — — 109 4,659 — — 7,650 19,340 lon, United States of America, British West Indies, Bermudas, Foreign West Indies, Mexico, Panama, Cen- tral America,Colombo, and Venezuela. §35,486 47,411 5,974 6,514 50 320 302 1,292 60 41,912 55,597 Brazil,Uruguay, Bolivia, f5,439,563 3,947,437 93,035 93,118 202,842 145,746 262,508 168,595 — 153 153,179 106,714 183,426 184,396 — — 6,334,553 ! 4,646,159 Argentine Republic, $3,283 20,367 1,650 711 7,792 4,700 354 21 — — 883 314 3,523 421 — — 47,485 26,564 Paraguay, and Falk- land Islands. §364,637 263,385 1,487 201 — — — — — — — — 105 6,078 — — 366,229 269,664 Peru, Ecuador, and Chile j"455,902 252,255 13.918 13,076 133,271 124,600 — 2,171 — — 997 — 1,257 1,370 — — 605,345 393,472 $,336 10,127 1,009 906 9,066 5,674 — — — — — — 4,592 4,453 — — 21,003 21,160 §196,752 170,952 — 1 — — — — — — — — — 2,720 — — 196,752 173,673 f29,875,916 24,475,551 751,819 600,719 23,023,810 19,241,980 8,883,353 6,049,741 424,536 292,328 8,253,023 6,177,065 2,181,174 2,201,244 3,487! 1,252 73,400,118 59,039,880 Total $58,347 147,987 36,735 22,053 409,826 461,956 155,998 121,577 265,352 250,695 146,283 133,727 55,733 40,583 6,867 4,270 1,235,141 1,182,848 §2,031,148 1,584,995 8,523 8,003 — — — 49 54 331 7,204 1,372 6,258 12,947 — i 60 2,053,187 1,607,757 * From the Tables relating to Coal Shipments [Cd. 7979] issued by the Board of Trade, t The whole of the figures across page refer to Coal. £ Coke. § Manufactured fuel. MINING AND OTHER NOTES. The directors of John Brown and Company have appointed Mr. A. J. Grant, of Sheffield, a local director of the company. Mr. Grant during the past five years has occupied a responsible position at the company's Atlas Works, Sheffield. The Lord Chancellor gave judgment in the House of Lords, on Tuesday, in the appeal as to whether the Great Western Railway Company had a general lien on a consign- ment of steel billets sent by the United States Steel Products Company to a Staffordshire firm which, before delivery, suspended payment. The steel company, who were the appellants, said the general lien was subject to their rights as unpaid vendors to stop the goods in transit, and to resume possession of them, without any obligation to pay the railway company the amount due to them by the Staffordshire firm in respect of freight upon consignments of goods sent at other times and by persons other than the appellants. Mr. Justice Pickford decided in favour of the steel company, but the Court of Appeal reversed his decision. In the House of Lords Mr. Justice Pickford’s finding was unanimously restored. In a Convocation of Oxford University, held on Saturday, a decree was unanimously approved by the House gratefully accepting the <£25,000 offered to the University by Mr. Dyson Perrins for the equipment of the new chemical laboratory and the promotion of chemical research in the University, and expressing the thanks of the University to Mr. Perrins for his great and opportune munificence. Messrs. Yeadon, Son and Company, Leeds, have received an order from the Clifton Colliery Company Limited, Nottingham, for one of their latest, improved complete briquette plants to produce ovoid briquettes, suitable for boiler and domestic use, at the rate of 50 tons per day. Mr. Henry Bacon (secretary of British Coalite Company Limited) has been appointed secretary of Coalite Limited, and of the Barnsley Smokeless Fuel Company Limited. The registered offices of the three companies are at 62, London Wall, E.C. An official telegram from Sebastopol states that during the bombardment of the coast at Zunguldak, the Russian warships sank four Turkish mahonnes (galleys) laden with coal for Constantinople. The New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden (N.J.), are building on account of West Virginia coal interests two 9,000-ton d.w. steamers for the export coal trade to Mediter- ranean ports. The boats will be managed by the Crowley firm of Boston, and will be of the same type as the colliers “ Lingan ” and “Hochelaga,” built specially in England for the St. Lawrence coal trade. The Westminster Tool and Electric Company, of Suffolk House, Laurence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, London, E.C., inform us that they have discontinued the use of the name “ Vulcan” in connection with their electric tools. In future these portable electric drills, blowers and lifting magnets will be known by the registered trade mark “ Westool ” Notice is given that an Order was made on July 6, 1915, restoring the Letters Patent granted to Dr. Heinrich Colloseus for an invention entitled “Improvements in apparatus for pulverising blast-furnace slag,” numbered 14329 of 1905, and bearing date July 11, 1905. More than 1,000,000 dols. will be invested by the Pennsyl- vania Railroad for an additional coal pier and accompanying facilities at Canton, Baltimore. The improvements include a concrete bulkhead pier, machinery for loading coal into vessels, a coal dumper, thawing-house and extensive freight yards for loaded and empty cars. The coal-handling machinery on the new coal pier will be capable of loading at least 6,000 tons of coal in 10 hours. The new pier will be 942 ft. long and 66 ft. wide. The loaded car yard with 36 tracks will hold 620 cars, while the empty car yard will have a capacity of 139 cars, with shop car tracks to hold 28 cars additional. The new facilities at Canton are to be built because the railroad believes that the export coal business at Baltimore will show large increases in the next few years. Mr. William Thackray, aged 70, of Sunderland, and of Messrs. Samuel Tyzack and Company Limited, iron and steel manufacturers, of Sunderland, chairman of the North of England Iron and Steel Conciliation Board, has left estate the gross value of which is <£52,095. The total production of explosives in the United States during the year 1914, exclusive of exports, according to figures compiled by Albert H. Fay, of the United States Bureau of Mines, was 450,251,489 lb., or 225,126 short tons, as compared with 500,015,485 lb., or 250,008 short tons, for 1913. The production for 1914 is segregated as follows .•— Black powder, 206,099,700 lb.; “ high ” explosives other than permissible explosives, 218,453,971 lb.; and permissible explosives, 25,697,818 lb. The figures represent a decrease of 23,839,831 lb. of black powder; 23,932,573 lb. of high explosives ; and 1,987,952 lb. of permissible explosives, as compared with 1913. In the year 1902 only 11,300 lb. of permissible explosives were used in coal mining, whereas n 1913 the quantity so used was 21,804,285 lb., as compared with 19,593,892 lb. in 1914. The total amount of explo- sives for the production of coal in 1914 was 220,622,487 lb., of which about 8’9 per cent, was of the permissible class, as compared with 9’5 per cent, in 1913. Deputy-assistant-quartermaster-general lestyn Williams, of the 2/lst Welsh Division, at the Westgate Hotel, New- port, on Monday was presented with a handsome cigarette box and cheque as a testimonial of personal esteem from his Monmouthshire friends. The recipient’s grandfather, Mr. William Williams, of Abercynon, was one of the pioneers of the South Wales steam coal trade, and sank pits as far back as 1850. A substantial increase in the quantity of coal briquettes manufactured and sold in 1914 is announced by the United States Geological Survey. A tendency to operate in large units is illustrated in the statistics, the smaller and experi- mental plants going out of existence and the new enter- prises being of greater capacity. The production of briquetted fuel in 1914 amounted to 244,635 short tons, valued at 1,123,178 dols., an increase compared with 1913 of 62,776 short tons in quantity and 115,851 dols. in value. The production in the Eastern States increased from 62,244 short tons, valued at 240,643 dols., to 101,782 tons, valued at 273,046 dols. ; in the Central States from 73,£87 tons, valued at 360,408 dols., to 88,325 tons, valued at 424,569 dols.; and in the Pacific coast States from 46,328 short tons, valued at 406,276 dols., to 54,528 tons, valued at 425,563 dols. Of the 15 plants in operation during 1914, five used anthracite culm as a raw material; two, semi-anthracite ; one, bituminous slack; two, a mixture of anthracite culm and bituminous slack; two, petroleum residuum ; two semi- bituminous slack: and one, a mixture of anthracite culm, bituminous slack, coke and lignite. Eight plants used coal- tar pitch for a binder, four used secret binders, and one used petrolastic cement. No binder is required in the briquetting of carbon residues from oil-gas works.