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THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN.

February 9, 1917.

COHTEHTS.

Editorial Articles :—	page

The War Loan  .............................. 285

Nationality and Originality in Mining .......... 285

Articles :—	*■

Coal and Shipping.............................   275

Chemical Aspects of Coke Oven Practice ......... 27G

Fuel Economy ................................    277

State Control of Miners* Wages ................. 27*

' The ! oke Industry of New South WaFs .........  279

Steam Turbines and Coal Consumption ............. 28

Borehole Troubles .............................. 281

The “Combing Out** of Miners ................... 282

Fuel and Cok<ng Lectures at Leeds University. 283

A Queensland Coal Mine........................   283

The Mining Association and the War Loan.......	283

Mining Industry and Military Service ........... 283

Mining and Other Notes.......................... 283

The American Coal Trade ........................ 286

Obituary........................................ 290

The Use of Coal Ash in Sand Stowage ............ 291

Mine Rescue Apparatus and Training ............  291

Labour and Wages................................ 294

Open Contracts .........■....................... 295

The Freight Market............................   296

Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently

Accepted...................  ’..............  295

New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron

Trades  ...................................... 268

Publications Received........................    268

Letters to the Editors

Absenteeism and the Bonus System in America ... 282

Safety First ................................    282

Reports of Meetings

Coke Oven Managers* Association ......  :....	278

The Coal and Iron Trades........................286—290

The By-Products Trade .........................  290

The Tin-plate Trade...........................   290

The London Coal Trade .......................... 290

Current Science and Technology ...................  282

Stock and Share List.........................       292

Notes from the Coal Fields .....................    293

Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies .............  295

Miscellanea:—

Exports and Imports of Coal Products—Exports
and Imports of Mining Machinery ............ 276

Increased Use of Artificial Gas in America .... 278

Excess Mineral Rights Duty ...................   281

Miners* Federation Meeting .........-..........  283

The German Lignite Industry .................... 286

Coal Export S'atistics ......;.............      29u

The British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers*

Association—By-Products from Lignite ........  291

National Service—Switzerland*s Coal Agreement... 295
Partnerships Dissolved—Hull Coal T\ade—Coal

Difficulty in Germany ......................   298

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ARMYTAGE & JONES Ltd., Sheaf Street, Sheffield.

STEEL

Rails

Roof Bars

Pit Props

Arches

For COLLIERIES

V V and WORKS.

THffi W. WARD Ltd.,

Albion Works,
SHEFFIELD.

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\ ATanted, for group of pits in Lanca-

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to Box 6661, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn,
London. E.C.

/Aolliery Surveyor (exempt from military

service) Required. Certified under Mines Regulation Act.

Thoroughly competent and accustomed to the routine of a mining
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Auctioneers and Valuers,

COLLIERIES, Brickworks & Mining Plant.

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SALES conducted in ail parts of the Kingdom.

GOAL. IROH & STEEL SHARES.

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Cavendish Buildings, Wheeler Gate, NOTTINGHAM.

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MARITIME

COALINGJIDMINISTRATION

Selection of Coal Supplies.

Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, Westminster, England*

Wan t e d.—F irst-class	Certificated

Colliery MANAGER for ga« coal colliery, South Wa’es: 800 tons
per day* Must be 6 o’clock man, energetic and capable of managing men.
Preferably used to steep measures and water.—Apply, with references,
Box 6671, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival street, Holborn,
London, E.C.

/'Colliery Company, North Staffordshire,
chiefly ironstone, requires the services of a first-class ENGINEER,
with spare time to supervise.—Box 6674, Cellis ? Guardian Office, 30 & 31,
Furnival street. Holborn, London, E C.

FOB SALE BY PRIVATE TREATY.

Small	Colliery, employing about 100

hands. Complete plant. 250/300 tons per week best house, gas,
steam and coking coal.—Apply,
POPPLETON, APPLEBY & TURNER, C.A’s., 155, Norfolk street,

Sheffield.

AUCHEN.DARROCH ESTATE.
LOCH FYNE.

For Sale, by Private Tender, the following

STANDING and BLOWN TIMBER.-

	Loti.	Lot II.	Lot III.	Total.
LARCH 			. 1,325 ..	30 ...	.	438 ...	1,793
(6 in. and under)		. 4,592 ..	. 3,615 ...	. 3,138 ...	11,345
SPRUCE, SCOTS FIR, &c...	.	25 ..	42 ...	,	797 ...	864
,.	(6 in. and under)		14 ..	.	703 ...	2,608 ...	3,325
HARDWOODS, &c		52 ..	66 ...	52 ...	170
.	(6 in. and under)		7 ..	26 ..	.	6 ...	39
VARIOUS (Props) 		44 ..	. 3,680 ...	.	190 ...	3,914
	6,059 ..	. 8,162 ...	. 7,229	21.450

Mr. ARCHIBALD THOMPSON, Auchendarroch, Lochgilphead, will,
uoon receiving two days’ notice, meet inquirers and exhibit the Conditions
of Sale.—For further particulars and Conditions of Sale, apply to Messrs.
J. fe F. ANDERSON, W.S , 48, Castle-street, EDINBURGH, who will
receive offers up to 15th February, 1917.

BY ORDER OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF WOODS AND FORESTS.
SUTTONON-DERWENT.

o be Sold by Public Tender, about
3,800 TREES, principallv L ARCH and SCOTCH, containing about
42,000 cubic feet of TIMBER, situated ia the Haxby and Mickfield Planta-
ti.m on the Woodhouse Grange Farm, Sutton-on-Derwent. about Four miles
from Pocklington Station on the North-Eastern Railway, and within
Three miles of Elvington Station on the Derwent Valley Light Railway, and
close .to a canal. CONDITIONS OF SALE with FORMS OF; TENO ER,
mavbehad on application to the OFFICE OF WOODSAND FORESTS,
1, Whitehall. London, S.W.. ant to Messrs. J. CARTER JONAS &
SONS, Crown Receivers, 8a, White! all-place, Lon ion, S.W.

rphe Directors of the Powell Duffryn

A Steam Coal Co. Ltd. invite Tenders for the supply of the under-
mentioned STORES, from the 1st April, 1917 :—

No 1. Bar and other Iron.

No. 2. Bolts, Nuts and Rivets.

No. 3. Gunmetal Fittings.

No. 6. India ubber, Asbestos, etc.

No. 7. Colliers’Tools

No. 10. Steel Girders, Channels, Rails, etc.

No. 11. Nails.

,	No. 12. Oilskins.

No. 13. Steel.

No. ,14. Steam Tubes and Fittings.

No. 15. Bratt ce Cloth, Waste, etc.

No. 17. Chains.	• 1 - ,

No. 19. T mber.

No. 20. Printing.

No 22 Horse Feed.	. ■	;

No. 23. Wire Ropes.

No. 25. Lime and Cement.	■	'

. No 26. Electrical Goods.	.	,

Forms of tender and full particulars can be obtained on application to
the STORES MANAGER, Ab raman Offices, nr. Aberdare. Tenners- to
be a4dr*ssed to the DIRECTORS of the POWELL DTJFFRYN
STEAM COAL CO. LTD., 101, Leadenhall street, London, E O., and to
be posted so as to be received not later than 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 7th,
1917

101, Leadenhall-street,	(By Order) . H. R. CLARKE,

London, E.C.	Secretary

A Quantity of New 3rds and 4ths
quality Swedish TIMBER, 8in. by 3in. and 7in. by 3in., in long
lengths, suitable for wagon builders The timber may be inspected, and is
in first-class condition.—Apply, Box 6669, Colliery Guardian Office,
0 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn. London, E.C.

Turbo-generating Set, 250-kw.. for Sale,
. 400: volts, 50 periods. 3-phase, alternating current, 160 lb. steam, 750
revolutions, with exciter, 230 volts, 20 amps.

HELLEWELL & GO., Royal Exchange, Manchester.

/Generating Sets for Sale, 750 - kw.,
operating on any voltage between 420 as a shunt machine and 550 as
a compound machine; complete with shunt rheostat, 10 poles, Westing-
house generator, 160 lb. steam pressure, cross compound engines.

HELLEWELL & GO., Royal Exchange, Manchester.

Wanted immediately, 10-h.p. Motor,

3-Phase.—State age, condition, and price f o.r., to Box 6675,
Colliery. Gunman Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street Holborn, London, E.C.

r|''he Colliery Ready reckoner and Wages

1 CALCULATOR. By JAMES IRELAND. ” Will be the means of
preventing many disputes between pay clerks and colliers.”—Mining
Journal. Colliery Guardian Office. 30 St 31, Furnival-street, Holborn,
IxmdoH, E.C.	Cloth temp, price le. 6d.; post free, le. Id.