592 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN March 22, 1918. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles:— Page Presentation, to Sir T. R. Ratcliffe-Ellis . 593 Compulsory Acquisition of Land ............. 593 Works Committees............................ 594 Articles :— Power from Waste and Inferior Fuels ........ 585 New Coal Control Directions ................ 586 Safety Lamp Order .......................... 586 Mining Employment Statistics ............... 587 The Manufactures of Mavor and Coulson Limited, Glasgow .................................. 588 Determination of Moisture in Coke .......... 590 The Taxation, Rating and Valuation of Mines ... 591 Maximum Prices of French Coals ............. 591 Presentation to Sir Thos. R. Ratcliffe-Ellis. 594 Government and Miners’ Ballot............... 598 New G.N,R. Coal-Traffic Locomotive.......... 599 The American Coal Trade .................... 600 Comb-Out in Mines ......................... 600 The Manufacture of Silica Bricks ........... 600 South Wales Mining Timber Trade ............ 601 Labour and Wages............................ 602 The Freight Market ......................... 602 Obituary .................................. 602 Open Contracts ......................... 604 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted ................................. 604 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades ................................... 606 Government Publications..................... 606 Publications Received ...................... 606 Catalogues and Price Lists Received......... 606 Letters to the Editors :— Rescue Apparatus............................ 600 Reports of Meetings:— Manchester Geological and Mining Society..... 587 British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers* Association .............................. 600 The Coal and Iron Trades ...............596—599 The By-Products Trade .................... 591 The London Coal Trade .................... 599 The Tin-plate Trade....................... 599 Parliamentary Intelligence.................... 594 Notes from the Coal Fields.................... 601 Law Intelligencf ........................... 601 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies.......... 602 Miscellanea :— Industrial Reconstruction Council—Coal Rebates at North-Eastern Railway Depots—Manufacture of Steel Castings ......................... 586 Trial Borings for Petroleum .............. 588 Professor Kendall on Coal-seam Splits..... 589 Coal Rationing—Gloucestershire Electric Power Bill .................................... 591 Paris Coal Prices ........................ 594 Coal Exporters* Brokerage—Exports and Imports of Mining Machinery—Coal for France and Italy..................................... 599 Canal Traffic—New Queensland State £Coal Mine —Refractories Research—Trade Consolidation 601 Workmen*s Compensation: Industrial Diseases... 602 <£24,000 Wagon Demurrage Claim—Exports and Imports of Coal Products—Imports of Pitwood 606 SUBSCRIPTIONS. 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CRANES. (Loco & Derrick). Sleepers. Buffer Stops. Buyers of all kinds Steel and Iron Scrap. ARCHIBALD BAIRD & SON LTD. HAMILTON. Telegrams—Excello. Telephone—No 57. AND ALL — Makers of — GUTTA PERCHA PUMP BUCKETS, RINGS & WASHERS. AND ALL COLLIERY REOUIR EM ENTS. LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE COLLIERY UNDER-MANAGERS’ ASSOCIATION. 6, Colin Street, Wigan Lane, Wigan (General Secretary: JOSEPH BUTLER). MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF COLLIERY UNDER-MANAGERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. he Council desire to make an earnest Appeal to all Under-Managers who are not yet members of any association to correspond with SECRETARY at the above Address, when Particulars of Membership will be forwarded, and Branches formed at Convenient Centres. Brattice Cloth. — Gentleman Wanted with influence amongst colliery managers and proprietors, to sell BRATTICE CLOTH on good commission only—Address, FAIRCLOUGH & SONS, Bank-lane, Clayton, near Manchester. raughtsman required to take charge of Coal Washery Dept. Experienced men only need apply.—Full particulars in the first place to Box 7003, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, Post by a disengaged First- CLASS COLLIERY MANAGER and SURVEYOR; used to opening up in thick and thin coal mines, deep and shallow; also ganister and clay mines; well up in construction and building work, with good experience. Over military aere. Apply— JOSEPH MARRIOTT, 99, Wood-road, Hillsbro’, Sheffield. mted, First-class Certificated MANAGER, to take charge of modern Collieries. Must be thoroughly practical and accustomed to the longwall working of both thick and thin seams with average gradients. Good opening for suitable man.— Apply, stating age, experience and salary required, to Box 7019, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, Assistant Colliery Electrician, capable of taking charge of 500-kw. Turbo Alternator Plant in the absence of Chief Electrician, and to assist generally.—State age (must be exempt from military service), qualifications, salary required, and when at liberty, to Box 7017, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, First-class Certificated Manager for Collieries in Lancashire. Apply, stating age, experience, references, etc. Good salary paid to suitable man.—Box 7021, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Thirst - class Draughtsmen, with good JL general experience, Wanted by large controlled firm in South York- shire.—Apply, giving full particulars of experience, and salary required (inclusive of war bonus), to Box 6886, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, a Certificated Surveyor for Colliery.—Apply, stating age, experience and salary required, to Box 7029, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, Situation as Enginewright; life experience at general colliery engineering; over military age. First-class references.—Apply, Box 7028, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Geo. N. Dixon & Co., 43, Cattle Street, Liverpool, Auctioneers and Valuers, COLLIERIES, Brickworks & Mining Plant. In the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division. Mr. Justice Eve. 1916 D. No. 952. Be THE DERBY KILBURN COLLIERY COMPANY LIMITED. Important Sale of the valuable Colliery UNDERTAKING of the DERBY KILBURN COLLIERY COM- PANY LIMITED, together with the Freehold and Leasehold Lands and Cottages, Surface and Mineral Rights, Buildings, Tramways, Plant and Machinery, Horses, Carts, Pit Ponies, Utensils, etc. Mr. THOMAS EDWARD RUSHTON (of the firm of Messrs. Edward Rushton, Son & Kenvon), the person appointed bv Mr. Justice Eve, will SELL by AUCTION in ONE LOT as a GOING CONCERN at the ROYAL HOTEL, DERBY, on Friday, the 5th day of April, 1918, at 3 for 3.30 p.m., subject to Conditions of Sale to be then and there produced, THE DEBBY KILBURN COLLIERY, situate about 5 miles from the centre of Derby and about 3 miles from the Borough Boundary, and adjacent to ' the Derby to Nottingham Branch Line of the Great Northern Railway Company. FREEHOLD LANDS AND FREEHOLD MINERALS. The property comprises 30 acres or thereabouts of freehold land situate in Derby and in the Parishes of Stanley, Morley and Chaddesden, in the County of Derby, and there are also 260 acres or thereabouts of freehold minerals, consisting of the seam of coal called “the Kilburn Coal,” situate at Morley aforesaid. LEASEHOLDS. The Leasehold Lands comprise 32 acres or thereabouts, in and over which the Company hold and have Mineral and Surface Rights, and the Leases under which same are held do not expire until the year 1935. In addition, there are 16 Workmen’s Cottages held under a Lease expiring in the year 1928. LEASEHOLD MINERALS. The Leasehold Minerals comprise 200 acres or thereabouts lying under lands and hereditaments situate at Stanley and Morley afore- said, and are held under various Mining Leases or Underleases expiring in the year 1934.' THE COAL SEAM. The area of unworked coal is about 350 acres, estimated to yield upwards of 1,750,000 tons. The coal is a good Kilburn seam showing a section of 3 ft. 4£ in. of good coal, and a yield has been shown of 5,352 tons per acre. The whole of output, except for local sales, is sent to Derby, where the coal finds a ready and popular market. The property is well opened up, the present owners having carried out a system of extensive developments. TRAMWAY AND COAL WHARF. For the purpose of disposing of the coal a double-line cable tramway has been laid which conveys the coal from the workings to a Land Sale Coal Wharf situate at the Borough boundary. At the Wharf an excellent modern Screening Plant has been erected, where there is also a suite of Offices, Stabling, Stores and Lurry Weigh Bridge. THE COLLIERY BUILDINGS AND FLANT. The buildings are well and substantially built, and include Steam Boiler, Power and Pump Houses, Stores, Offices, Stabling, etc. The Plant includes Lancashire and other Steam Boilers, Winding and Hauling Engines, Pumps, Electricity Generating Plants, Electric Motors, Electric Lighting Installation, Ventilating Fans, Coal Cutters, Shafting, Gearing, Piping, Mechanics’, Smiths’ and Joiners’ Tools, Underground Tramways, Pit Trams, Horses, Pit Ponies, Carts, Drays, Engineers’ Stores, Fixtures, Loose Tools and Utensils. Descriptive detailed particulars and plan and Conditions of Sale are now ready, and maybe had from the AUCTIONEER, 13, Norfolk-street, Manchester; the RECEIVER, WM. CAMPION, Esq., Iron Gate, Derby; Messrs. PEACOCK & GODDARD, Solicitors, Gray’s Inn, London, W.C. 1; or from— 40, St. Mary’s-gate, Messrs. MOODY & WOOLLEY, Derby. Solicitors. Wanted, experienced Engineer-Pitman for pumping engines at Bradley, Bilston, and at Moat, Tipton. Must understand compound-condensing pumping engines, with plunger and bucket lifts. Apply by letter— MINES DRAINAGE COMMISSIONERS, Trindle House, Dudley. Wanted, Draughtsman. Must have had experience with up-to-date colliery plant. Ineligible for military service. Applicants should state age, experience and salary. No person already on Government work will be engaged. — Apply your nearest EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE, mentioning No. A 4927. Wanted, Engineer for small Colliery in the Midlands. Good electrical experience essential.—Apply, stating age, full particulars of experience (with testimonials) and salary required, Box 7025, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Practical Colliery Engineer Wanted for a double-shift colliery. State age, experience and salary required.— Apply, Managing; Director, TINSLEY PARK COLLIERY, Tinsley, Sheffield. Master Sinker, at liberty, will place own method for dealing with water, to save both tubbing and pumping. . —Apply, Box 7015, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, First-class Certified Colliery MANAGER, for South Yorkshire Colliery. Must be under 35 and have good general education. Experience of coal-cutters and conveyors essential. Good prospects for suitable young man anxious to get on.— Apply, Box 7020, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, Foreman Engineer-Pitman to take charge of two large pumping engines of the Davey type. Must have had experience in heavy7 lift and plunger pit work. Permanent situation and good wages. MINES DRAINAGE COMMISSIONERS, Trindle House, Dudley. Wanted, for a Colliery in the South of England, an ASSISTANT SURVEYOR, capable of making underground surveys and levellings.—Apply, giving particulars of experience, age, qualifications and salary required, and say when at liberty, to Box 7023, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. For Sale by7 Tender, Coal Cleaning PLANT, capable of dealing with 400 tons in 8 hours, consisting of:— 1 REVOLVING TIPPLER. 1 SCREEN, 8 ft. wide, bars 12 ft. long. 1 Large COAL PICKING BELT, 4 ft. 6 in. wide, 50 feet centres and 13 ft. lowering jib. I Mild STEEL PLATES, lap joints. 1 Small COAL PICKING BELT, 50 feet centres, with lowering shute 4 ft. 6 in. wide. 1 Zimmer CONVEYOR, 18 in. wide, for shale. 1 Large COAL JIGGER. 1 Small Do. Do. 1 Full-load CONVEYOR CHAIN, 42 feet centres. Approximate length of 3 in. shafting, 60 feet; approximate length of 3J in. shafting, 82 feet. 1 Double HORIZONTAL ENGINE, 10 in. by 20 in., geared 4 to 1. The above plant may be seen by arrangement vfith— Messrs. INSOLES LTD., CYMMER COLLIERIES, PORTH, RHONDDA. Sale.—Excellent pair 16 in. Self-con- tained colliery7 HAULING ENGINES, with two steel drums on second motion with clutch between drums. Also four GIRDER BRIDGES, 41 ft. span, 7 ft. 6 in. wide, about 3 ft. deep, suitable for railway or other traffic; complete; equal new.—PERKINS, Windsor-terrace, Swansea. Locomotive, Second - hand, Wanted ; 14 in., 12in. or 10 in. cylinder.—Address letters, giving full particulars and where same can be inspected, to Box 7030, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4.