1124 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. November 27, 1914. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles ;— page Trading with the Enemy....... ............. 1125 The Coal Tar Colour Industry ............... 1125 Taxing Wages ............................... 1126 Articles.— Opening of New Rescue Station in North-East Lancashire............................... 1119 The Frequency of Mine Explosions..........,... 1120 American Coal Dust Investigations ...........1121 The Use of Electricity in the Liege Coalfield. 1123 An Animal Air Tester ....................... 1131 Cables ..................................... 1131 The German and Austrian Coal and Iron Trades ... 1132 State Reservation of Mining Properties in Spain ... 1133 Labour and Wages........................... 1133 A New Core Remover for Diamond Drilling .... 1134 Trade and the War.......................... 1136 The Freight Market ...................... 1138 Book Notices............................... 1140 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted 1140 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades .................................. 1142 Open Contracts............................. 1142 Obituary.................................. 1142 Government Publications ................... 1142 Publications Received ..........:........ 1142 Workmen's Compensation ........................ 1130 Notes from the Coalfields ................... 1134 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies .......... 1137 Monthly List of Recent Coal Literature.......... 1139 The Coal and Iron Trades ............... 1126—1129 The Tin-plate Trade ....................... 1129 The London Coal Trade ..................... 1130 The By-Products Trade ..................... 1137 Miscellanea :— Immingham Coal Exports—French Coal Mines and the War ................................. 1120 Heating and Insulation Deterioration of Current Carrying Conductors....................... 1123 • Russian Coal Trade—Proposed Subsidies for Iron and Steel Production in New Zealand — The Origin of Anthracite .................. 1130 Partnership Dissolved—Grimsby Coal Exports... 1131 Hull Coal Exports—Safety in Tin-plate Factories 1140 San Francisco International Engineering Congress, 1915 ...................................... 1142 ADVERTISEMENTS. 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BIRMINGHAM Saltley Works. CARDIFF ... East Moors. MANCHESTER Great Marlborough Street. SHEFFIELD Celtic Works, Savile Street. NEWCASTLE- < N-TYNE... Walker Gate. GLASGOW ... Rosehill Works, Polmadie. SYDNEY ... N.S.W. DO YOU USE SILVESTER’S PROP WITHDBAWER ? If so, you cannot afford to be without DAVIS’S PATENT ATTACHMENT, which ensures absolute safety to the user, and allows of obtaining fresh hold on rack, without releasing load. WILL FIT ANY STANDARD SILVESTER. Order at once from— E. W. HODGSON & GO., 24, Norfolk Row, SHEFFIELD. Telegrams—“ Metalmen, Sheffield.” Telephone No. 4246. THE SOUTH WALES COALFIELD. PART II. By Henry K. Jordan, F G.S. (Past President and first Gold Medallist of the South Wales Institute of Engineers). This Paper, which deals with the western part of the Coalfield, has just been published by the South Wales Institute of Engineers. It consists of 81 pages oi printed matter with sections and diagrams. The large drawings are issued separately and comprise :— 1. A Horizontal Section across the anthracite region of Llandybie and Pant-y ffynnon, and via the Dulais Valley to the sea at Swansea. It is drawn to a scale of six inches to one mile, is 8 ft. in length, mounted on linen, and geologically coloured. 2. Comparative Sections of the Lo Wkr Measures in the following areas :— (A) Neath Valley. (E) Ammanford. (B) Swansea Valley. (F) Loughor Valley. (0) Brynamman District. (G) Gwendraeth District. (D) Amman Valley. (H) Gwendraeth District. These are drawn on one sheet, about 35 by 30 in., mounted on linen, to a scale of 200 ft. to 1 in. 3. A Map of Swansea District, on a scale of 6 in. to one mile, showing the outcrops of the coal seams. A limited number of the above are for pale, and may be obtained from The Secretary, The South Wales Institute of Engineers, CARDIFF. Price £1 Is., Postage Extra. “ The South Wales Coalfield,” Part I.,by Mr. H. K. Jordan, published in 1908, price £2 2s , dealt with the eastern half of the Coalfield, and may b< obtained from the Secretary. \Vr anted. position as Colliery Manager V V or UNDER-MAN AGER by young man 28 years of age; very good experience, having worked at the coal face; moderate salary ; disengaged owing to the war—Bom 5869, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival- street.Holborn, London, E.C. anted, three Steam Loco. Cranes to V V lift about 50 cwt., gauge 4 ft. 8i in , spring buffers essential. Apply, JONAS WILDSMITH, Barnsley. Geo. N. Dixon & Co., 43, Caxtle Street, Liverpool, Auctioneers and Valuers, COLLIERIES, Brickworks & Mining Plant. MONMOUTHSHIRE EDUCATION COMMITTEE. MINING SUB-COMMITTEE. A pplications are invited for the Appoint- ment of ORGANISER and INSTRUCTOR for Evening Classes in which are taught English, Mathematics, Chemistry (laboratory work chiefly;, Physics, Mechanics (laboratory work chiefly), and Drawing preparatory to a course in Mining Education. Previous experience essential. Preference will be given to candidates with a knowledge of mining. The salary to be paid will oe £300 per annum. Applications which should be accompanied by copies of three recent testimonials, must reach the undersigned not later than Thursday, the 10th December proximo, endorsed Organiser.” Canvassing, directly or indirectly, will disqualify. County Council • ’flues, C. DATTNOEY, Newport (Mon ), Secretary of Education. 23rd November, 1914. TUBES AND FITTINGS, IRON AND STEEL Tubes for Gas, Water, Steam, and Compressed Air. Electric Tramway Poles, Pit Props, High Pressure Steam Mains, &c. JOHN SPENCER LTD., Globe Tube Works, Wednesbury J. W. BAIRD AND COMPANY. PITWOOD IMPORTERS, WEST HARTLEPOOL, YEARLY CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO WITH COLLIERIES. OSBECK & COMPANY LIMITED, PIT-TIMBER MERCHANTS, NEW CASTLE-ON-T YNE. SUPPLY ALL KINDS OF COLLIERY TIMBER. Telegrams—“ Osbecks, Newcastle-on-Tyne.” For other Miscellaneous Advertisements see Last White Page. AND Journal of the Coal and Iron Trades. Joint Editors— J. V. ELSDEN, D.Sc. (Lond.), F.G.S. HUBERT GREENWELL, F.S.S., Assoc.M.I.M.E. LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1914. The Commission recently despatched to Canada and Newfoundland to investigate the question of pit timber supplies has now returned to this country, and their report is under consideration. The Scottish railways have this week granted considerable reduc- tions in the rates for the carriage of pit props, and we understand that the English railways are open to consider applications for similar treatment where necessary. The London coal trade has been very brisk during the week. Public prices advanced Is. per ton on Friday last on all qualities except stove coal. Colliery prices are unchanged, but all special quotations are withdrawn, and in one or two isolated cases a small advance has been obtained. The seaborne market continues quiet, and the railway traffic is seriously delayed. The depot trade is improving. With scarcity of tonnage and exceedingly high, rates of freight continuing to dominate the coal carrying industry, it is not surprising that the export trade has remained almost stagnant. On the north- east coast these burdens have made themselves most felt, and the markets of the Tyne and Wear have, as a consequence, become very dull. Shortage of tonnage "has also served to dislocate the Cardiff market. Naturally the pits in the district have worked irregularly, and the prospect of a change for the better is unfortunately not yet on the horizon; the Government enquiry, too, has been less brisk. The colder 'weather has had a salutary effect upon the inland trade. Markets in Lancashire, Derby- shire and Yorkshire have all experienced a better demand, more especially for house coal. There has been no change in the Scottish coal trade. A proposal by the United National Collieries Limited to absorb Burnyeat, Brown and Co. Limited is announced. For this purpose the former company desire to increase its authorised ordinary share capital by a million sterling. An important judgment was given in the Prize Court on Monday. A cargo of contraband goods had been seized on a British ship, and the question as to who were the owners had to be decided. The President found that the goods had not passed to the buyers, and as the sellers had reserved the right of disposal, were not liable to seizure. The Bill to artiend the Trading with the Enemy Act, 1914, which has now passed its third reading,