646 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. March 28, 1918. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles :— Page Report of the War Cabinet................... 647 The New Coal Control Directions ............. 647 Articles :— Modern Methods of Shaft Sinking.—1.......... 639 Electrical Osmosis and Colliery Cables......... 641 Fuel Exports to Denmark ................... 641 Chemists in Coke Oven Practice............... 642 Rapid Discharge of Coal Cargoes ............. 643 Saline Oil Coke ............................. 643 Fireproofing Mine Shafts..................... 644 The American Coal Trade ................... 644 The German Coal and Iron Trades............. 644 Some Recent Decisions under the Workmen’s Compensation Act......................... 645 Signals for Rescue Brigades ................. 645 South Wales Mining Timber Trade __.......... 650 Sampling Coal for Shipment or Delivery....... 651 Calorific Values sf Coals .................... 652 Coastwise Shipments in February............. 653 Manometer for Coke Oven Work __............. 653 Labour and Wages........................... 654 Open Contracts ............................ 654 The Freight Market ......................... 658 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades .................................. 658 Publications Received ....................... 658 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted ................................ 658 Reports of Meetings:— Coke Oven Managers’ Association: Midland Section.................................. 640 The Coal and Iron Trades .................648—651 The By-Products Trade ..................... 650 The London Coal Trade ..................... 651 The Tin-plate Trade......................... 651 Notes from the Coal Fields..................... 652................... Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies.......... 654......... Monthly List of Recent Coal Literature..... 656 Miscellanea :— Inland Transport—Ten Million Pounds Iron Combine ................................ 640 Priestman Collieries New Product—Timber Haulage ................................ 643 Pentre Mountain Slide Case—Central Technical Library for Manchester..................... 644 A Coal Owner’s Complaint ................... 648 Summer Mining and Engineering School, South Wales—Manchester Association of Engineers— Proportional Representation — German Coal Tickets...............,.................................. 650 Salmon-fishing for Miners—Bessemer Steel Billet Prices—Home-grown Timber Prices ......... 654 The Miners’ Ballot ......................... 660 _____________________________________________ ADVERTISEMENTS. Offices for ADVERTISEMENTS and PUBLICATION— 30 & 31, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. 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Mr. Justice Eve. ______ Re 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 & Kenvonl, 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 DERBY 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 PLANT. 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, Venti ating 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 may be 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, 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 age. Apply— JOSEPH MARRIOTT, 99, Wood-road, Hillsbro’, Sheffield. 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. Draughtsman 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, 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 a?e, experience and salary required.— Apply, Managing* Director, TINSLEY PARK COLLIERY, Tinslev 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, Foreman Engineer-Pitman to take charge of two large pumping engines of the Davey type. Must have had experience in heavy 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. 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. T?irst - class Draughtsmen, with good 1 1 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.