506 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN September 15, 1916. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles :— page National Uses of Geological Research ....... 507 The Fuel Economy Committee ................ 507 Articles New Pits of the Carriden Coal Company, Bc/ness... 497 The Absorption of Oxygen by Coal............ 498 Influence of Pressure on the Electrical Ignition of Methane ................................... 503 Carbolic Oil from Coal Tars ................ 505 Mining and Other Notes...................... 505 Trade and the War .......................... 508 Mining Industry and Military Service ....... 512 The Occlusion of Gases by Coal ............. 513 Book Notices................................ 514 The American Coal Trade .................... 514 Labour and Wages............................ 516 Obituary ................................... 516 Open Contracts ............................. 517 Coal and Coke Exported from Ports in England, Scotland and Wales ........................ 517 Coal and Coke Shipped for London and Other Ports in the United Kingdom ............... 517 Exports of Coal, Coke, and Manufactured Fuel from the United Kingdom .................... 518 The Freight Mar net ........................ 518 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted................................... 520 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades..................................... 522 Government Publications ................... 522 Publications Received ...................... 522 Notes from the Coal Fields ...................... 515 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies ............ 520 The Coal and Iron Trades......................508—512 The Tin-plate Trade ........................ 512 The By-Products Trade .................... 512 The London Coal Trade ...................... 508 Reports of Meetings :— British Association for the Advancement of Science 499 Institution of Mining Engineers ............ 505 Letters to the Editors :— ‘ ‘ No Man Can Serve Two Masters ” ......... 514 Miscellanea :— Coal Tiimmers" Grievances—Mining Examinations —Swedish Coal Imports ................:..... 498 Exports of Coal Products—Imports of Pit Props— Exports and Imports of Mining Machinery... 499 Shipments of Bunker Coal—A Coal Economy Circular — Erratum — Inventions Liable to Seizure..................................... 514 Italy's k oal Supply—Coal Shipped from Ports in the United Kingdom during August......... 512 Paris Coal Prices........................... 518 Partnerships Dissolved—Grimsby Coal Exports— Hull Coal Exports—German Coal for Switzerland 522 ADVERTISEMENTS. for AOW^mSEMENTS and PUBLICATION— 30 & 31, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C. 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LTD., Llanmore Works Llanelly T>r\T>T7TTf^T P0R minerals, water and brine Boreholes for Prospecting in . Underground Workings a Speciality. VIVIAN’S BORING COMPANY, PARKSIDE, CLEATOR MOOR. OVER 88 MILES OF BORINGS COMPLETED. Established 44 years. Largest experience. Telegrams—** Vivians. Parkside. Oleator Moor.” BORING for MINERALS, &o Solid Specimens of the Strata obtained. Established 1888. Work guaranteed. J. S. DAVIDSON & SON, St. Bees, CUMBERLAND. STEEL Rails Rcaf Bars Pit Props Arches For COLLIERIES and WORKS. TOO* W. WARD Ltd., Albion Works, SHEFFIELD. TRY US. -------- ( DISTILLERS WATER COOLERS STERILIZERS HEATERS Write: The Lawrence Patent Water Softener, &c., Co. Ltd. PARLIAMENT MANSIONS, WESTMINSTER. GROWN” BOILER COVERINGS of Outstanding Superiority. 96°/„ SAYING Intensest Heat cannot Impair. Union Works, Cooley, nr. Manchester. SUTCLIFFE BROS. RAILS. RAILS. ALL SECTIONS AND ACCESSORIES. Also quantity F.B. suitable for bearers. Sleepers. Timbers. Switches and Crossings. Buffer Stops. Locomotives. Cranes. Wagons. ARMYTAGE & JONES Ltd., Sheaf Street, Sheffield. MARITIME COALING ADMINISTRATION Selection of Coal Supplies. Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, England. To Colliery Owners requiring temporary REPRESENTATION FOR PERIOD OF THE WAR. WeT known London firm will undertake duties for NOMINAL EX PENSES ONLY.—Box 6372, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 A 31, Furnival- street, Holborn. London, E.U. IL/Techanical Engineer, experienced and JLVJL capable, required for Colliery; salary £250-£300, free house — Apr l , 6519, Colliery Guardian Office, oO A 31, Furnivai-atreet, Holborn, London, E.C. Head Chemist Required 'for Large Coking Installation in N irthern England, with by-product recovery tar distillation and gas plant: appl cants must not be of military age or already on Go-emment work.—Apply, Box 6523, Colliery Qua. ctian '■ iffice, 30 & 31, Furnival street, Holborn, London, E.U. VA/anted, by a Greek Gentleman, aged ▼ ▼ 45, resident of Athens, cf long commercial knowledge and hand- some cash capital, general REPRESENTATION for Greece of a large Br tish fact-rv or turn, ref rences given and taken.—Apply to G. D. ANTIPPA, 76a, Askiipiou street, Athens, Greece. TTnder - manager Wanted for Small VJ Colliery, devel >ping and goed prospects; must be experienced and practTal.—Applicati< ns. stating ag >, experience, and salary required, to WIRRAL COLLIERY (1915) LTD., Neston, Cheshire. YX/anted, Experienced Surveyor, used to ▼ ▼ surface work with theodolite, and ca'culating and plotting by trigonometrical methods.—Apply, stating salary required and reierences, to MESSRS. LEWIS A LEWIS, Mining Engine rs Derby. 7anted immediately, Two Fitters, ▼ ▼ accustomed to by-product coke oven machinery. — State experience and wages required to Box 6525, Collier*, Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. Wanted, a Fully-qualified Colliery ENGINEWRIGHT for new colliery in N.W. Yorkshire; must have had experience in sinking, electric pumping and haulage; stiict disciplinarian; good salary to competent man ; state salary required, with two references, tsstimonials w.ll not te accepted.—Apply Box 6530, CdHery Gua dian \ ffice, 30 A 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. WANTED FUR FRANCE. REPRESENTATION FOR ENGLISH COAL. Gentleman, 48, Belgian Wholesale Merchant, seeks for France, Agency or Representation for duration ot war ; will do business in Belgium after the war.—Write, STULTJENS, 37, Oxford-street, Loughborough, Leicestershire. COAL MINES ACT, 1911. Examination for Certificates as Manager and Under-Manager, and for Certificates of Qualification as surveyor of Mines. n Examination for First and Second- class Certificates of Competency as Manager and Under-manager of Mines will be held on the 21st November, 1916 at; Edinburgh, Newcastie- upon-Tsne. Sheffield, Wigan, Card ff, and Birmingham. An Examina ion for Certificates of Qualification as Surveyor of Mines will be held at the same placts on the 22nd November. Candidates must, on or before the 7ch Octo er, send their names and state the district in which they are emploved to the Secretary, at the Home Office, Whitehall, London, S.W., from whom a 1 particulars can be obtained. W. W. WARE, Secretary to the Board for Mining Examinations. Geo. N. Dixon & Co., 43, Castle Street, Liverpool, Auctioneers and Valuers, COLLIERIES, Brickworks & Mining Plant. Auctioneers & Valuers to the Engineering Trades. KNIGHT & PARTNERS Ltd. 27, Old Queen Street, Westminster, S.W. CORRESPONDENCE INVITED. SALES conducted in all parts of the Kingdom. COAL, IRON & STEEL SHARES. WILLIAM CHAPMAN & COMPANY, Stockbrokers. (established since 1851). Cavendish Buildings, Wheeler Cate, NOTTINGHAM. Special Business in Coal, Iron and Steel Shares. Lists, reports, &c., will be forwarded regularly on application. CITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. SUPPLY, DELIVERY AND ERECTION OF COAL TRANSPORTER PLANT. Renders are invited for the Supply, JL Delivery and Erection in Melbourne of a COAL TRANSPORTER Pi.ANT. The plant required shall be of the travelling-tower type, self propelling, with the whole <>f the machinery for pe> forming all the functions cf the transporter carried on the tower itseif, and operated by electncally-diiven motors. The plant shall consist of a main portable steel tower carrying an over- head beam, the lat er ben g arranged to support two coal-handling grabs, one on each side of the tower. All motions of i he plant shall be electrically operated. The plant shall be capaole of ha .dling c al at the rate of 80 tons per hour—that is to say, at the rat > of 40 t,oi s per grab per hour. Two steel c al h ppers.ea.h of 8 tons capacity for loading the wagons, shall oe fitted to the lower part of the tower. Electrical energy available for operating the transporter tower will be in form of continuous current at a p e-sure of 440 to 460 volts. Tender form wi h specification etc., c»n be obtained of Messrs. MclLWRAITH McEAUHARN A CO. PPTY. LTD. Billiter-sq.- building-s, London E.C. Su-h application must be accompanied by a d^-p sit or one gu nea, which will be returned on advice from Melbourne that a bona fide t nder has ^een received. Extra copies of the specification, etc , can be obtained on payment of 5s. per copy, which -urn will not re returnable. The tender form must be filled up, and returned intact, together with spe-ificati n, drawing, conditions of contract, etc., sealed, and marked “ Tender for Coal Transoo ter Plant,” and addressed to the Chairman, Electric Supply Committee, Town Hall, Melbourne, and must be received by him before 12 noon of Monday, 11th December. 1916. Each tenderer must send in with Ids tender either in cash or by bank draft, a de. osi; equal in amount to 2J per cent, upon the am junt of his tender, fsa guarantee of good faith, and, in the event of his tender being accepted by the Council, he must forthwith increase his de »osit to an amount equal to 5 per cent upon the amount of h s tender as a security for the due performance of his contract. This deposit may, if desired, be handed to Messrs. Mell wraith McEacharn and Co. Ppty. Limited, in which case their receipt for same must acccmpany the tender. The Council does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. McILWRAITH McEACHARN A CO. Ppty. LTD , Billiter-.-q lare-tiu ldines London. E.C. Agents for the Melbourne City Council. VlTanted c. and w. price for 1,000 tons Y J Merthyr Large, 500 Monmouthshire Large, 2.0 0 tens Staff., Derbv or Nottineham Best Brights or Large Nuts; also 500 t ns Forest Rubbles and Large, 1915 delivery. Cash against invoice.—DIRECT COALS LIMITED, Yeovil. Tel. add., “ Willie, Yeovil ” For Sale, Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engi- neers, bound vols. Nos. 11, 21 and 23; complete in parts, vols. 14, 16, 27, 30, 32, 31 and 35.—Particulars or OFFERS to Box 6517, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival- street, Holborn, London, E.C. For Sale, Standing, 5 miles from Lambourne Station, Berks. 16,500 or thereby BEECH POLES. 11 to 18 feet long, about 5 in. thick.—Apply to P. BURGE8S, Craven Estates office, Birney, Coventry. PITWOOD. For Sale, Large Quantity Fir Timber, 3 in. to 1) in. qr. girth ; woul • he delivered rail to collieries in the North of England.—A ppi', Box 6529, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 A 31, Furnival-street. Holborn, London, E.U. RAILS WANTED. VYTanted, 10 to 20 tons Good Second- V Y hand flat bottomed steel RAILS, 70 to 80 lb. per vard, nicked and broken to lift 6 in. and 12 ft lengths, to be straight and free fr<,m h les except fish pla e holes - VICTORIA COAL & COKE CO. LTD.. Southgae Hous3, Wakefield. TO COLLIERY OWNERS, CONTRACTORS AND OTHERS. For Sale, 500 Good Second-hand Relay- able Railway SLEEPERS; dim. 9ft. by 10in. by 5in. 6r0 Second- and Sleepers, suitable for cart road or fencing purposes, 9 ft bv 10 in. by 5 in. 4C0 Second-hand S’eepers, dimensions about 4/5 ft. by 10in. by 5 in. Apply, J. J. DENTITH, Midland Yard, Chesterfield. Safe, Fireproof, by Withers & Sons, equal to new. 48 by 26b 26. fitted with Jin. solid st*»el door, two rash drawers with two movable shelves, six kevw ; price £12 12s.—BAXTER, 75, St. Peter’s-road. Handsworth, Birmingham. 117anted, Second-hand Blackett Washer ▼ V to deal with 12 tons of Slack per hour.—Full particulars to H. S. HIGGINBOTTOM A CO , 41. Castle street. Liverpool. Coal Cutters.—Two Ingersoll Band for sale, very little used diameter 6 n., c' lind-r in., strok3 2in—For furrher particulars write OWNERS REDHBUGH OULLIBRY LTD,, 4, Queen-street, Newcastle on- 1'yne. vyrAPS or the Britiah Coalfields, 1. Scotland. 2. North of England. 5. South Wales. 4. North Midlands. 5. South Midlands. Sheet, 4s. each: Mounted on Cloth cn Rollers, or in Case. 6s.each.-THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN CO. LTD. 30 A 31 Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. Price 2s. •• Useful alike to the Student and Practical Man.” 4 Colliery Manager’s Catechism, containing X-/ Practical and Scientific Information for the use of Students. By W. FAIRLEY, F.G.S. The author conveys his information by means of more than 670 questions and answers, under the following chapter headings The Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1887 — Geology—Ventilation—Gases— Varieties of Coal and other Fuel—Steam, Boilers and Engines—Practical Mining—Mathematics—Land and Mine Surveying — Applied Mechanics— Statistics—Electricity—Miscellaneous Subjects —Appendix (Text of the Mines Regulation Act, 1887). THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN CO. LTD., 30 A 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C.