24 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. January 7, 1916. CONTENTS. ’ Editorial Article :— page s The Coal Trade in 1915........................ 25 ; Articles.-— , n i The Coal Trade of 1915....................................... 15 ! Employers and the War __..........;........... 21 The Fire at the Griff Clara Pit, Warwickshire, August 1915 ................................................. 22 Electricity in Mines in 1914 ................... 23 Rescue Work in 1914 __.....................____________ 23 Annealing Cage Chains.................................. 30 American Experience with Permissible Explosives 30 Formation of Coal and Peat ......................... 30 Output and Value of Fuel in 1914 ................. 31 Enlistment of Miners ___________."..................__ 32 Tradp and the War.__..........._____________ 32 The German and Austrian Coal and Iron Trades ... 36 Labour and Wages..._________........................ 36 The Freight Market .......................... 39- Obituary....................................... 39 Open Contracts ......................................... 39 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted;........................................................... 40 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades __.......................____________ 42 Government Publications _________................_____ 42 Publications Received __________..................._______ 42 Notes from the Coal Fields __________...............__ 37 Goal, Iron and Engineering Companies ............ 39........ The Coal and. Iron Trades........................26—29..................... The Tin-plate Trade ....................... 26 The London Coal Trade ____.....................____ 26 The By-Products Trade __...................... 29 Miscellanea:— Pontefract Coal Lease .......................................... 22 Partnerships Dissolved—Lectures on Coal ....... 30 Use of Birds in Testing Mine Air—Manchester Geological and Mining Society ____............ 39 Grimsby Coal Exports—Almanacs and Calendars for 1916—Hull Coal Exports ___................ 42 _________________________________________________ ADVERTISEMENTS. Offices for ADVERTISEMENTS and PUBLICATION— 30 & 31 ? Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C> Telegraphic Address—“Colliery Guardian, Fleet, London.” Telephone—1354 Holborn. i CONTRACT ADVERTISEMENTS : Prices for SPECIAL POSITIONS on application. Prices for ORDINARY POSITIONS Single Column (3 inches wide) : For 52 insertions 2s. 6d. "1 per frugertjon for each „ 26 „ 3s. 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LTD., WAKEFIELD. _______________ MAXAi MAXA LTD., 43, Cannon St., London, E.C. _______________________________________ J. W. BAIRD AND COMPANY, PITWOOD IMPORTERS, WEST HARTLEPOOL, YEARLY CONTRACTS ENTERED INTO WITH COLLIERIES. _______________________________________ OSBECK & COMPANY LIMITED, PIT-TIMBER MERCHANTS, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE. 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. (bond.), F.G.S. HUBERT GREENWELL, F.S.S., Assoc.M.I.M.E. . (At present on Active Service'). • • ___________ LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1916. ________________ The London coal market has been well attended during the week. Prices rule high, and the demand for all qualities is strong. Very little free coal is offering. Scarcity of fuel supplies has again served to check new business, the output being absorbed entirely by present contracts. On the Tyne and Wear, the prompt market has suffered from the, shortage, and. little business has been transacted. This lull is also noticeable throughout Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire, the New Year holidays further • reducing the output and compelling the collieries to refuse additional orders. At Cardiff, the severe , weather further hampered tonnage arrivals, with the result that some pits have a difficulty in Cbntinning* working. The Scottish coal trade, if not quite as brisk as before, remains in a very firm position. A meeting of the Manchester Geological and Mining Society will be held on Tuesday next. A paper on