488 THE COLLIERY GUARDIAN. March 8, 1918. CONTENTS. Editorial Articles:— Page Alcohol and Work ............................. 489 Canals and Government Control................. 490 Articles :— The Use of Concrete for Mine Supports ........ 481 A New British Oil Industry : III.............. 483 The Manufacture of Silica Bricks ............. 483 Direction as to the Sale of Coal, &c.......... 484 Bailway Truck Tipplers ....................... 484 The Pen-Hsi-Hu Collieries, Manchuria.......... 485 Coaling Plant at a South African Cement Works 486 Equipment and Organisation of Mine Rescue Stations ................................. 487 Heating of Coal in Piles ..................... 494 Gas Analyses on Boiler Plants ................ 494 Obituary ..................................... 494 Labour and Wages............................ 496 South Wales Mining Timber Trade .............. 496 Open Contracts ............................... 496 The Freight Market ........................... 498 Government Publications....................... 498 Publications Received ........................ 498 Abstracts of Patent Specifications Recently Accepted ................................... 498 New Patents Connected with the Coal and Iron Trades ..................................... 500 Letters to the Editors :— Improvement in the Head-dress of Breathing Apparatus .............................. 494 The Coal and Iron Trades ................ 490 —493 The London Coal Trades.................... 490 The Tin-plate Trade....................... 490 The By-Products Trade .................... 493 Parliamentary Intelligence.................... 493 Notes from the Coal Fields.................... 494 Coal, Iron and Engineering Companies.......... 498 Miscellanea:— Mrs. Lloyd George^s Visit to the Coal Exchange— Gas Works Construction and Practice...... 482 Souih African Coal Output in 1917—Russian Coal Transport Paralysed..................... 483 Petroleum Prospecting in Great Britain..... 484 A New Motor Fuel—Coal for Italy .......... 486 A Combined Fuel—Miners’ Federation and Man Power .................................. 487 Hull Coal Exports—Non-Ferrous Metal Licences 490 Miners* War Wage ......................... 493 Coal for Coking ......................... 494 Manchester College of Technolagy ..,...... 495 Midland Counties Colliery Under-Managers* Association ............................ 49o Government and Privateiy-Owned Wagons...... 506 OWg&s for 30 & 31, FurmvaS Street, HoSborn, London, 4. Telegraphic Address—“Colliery Guardian, Fleet, London.** Telephone—1354 Holborn. Established 1866. PATENTS, DESIGNS, and TRADE MARKS. TTARRIS AND MILLS, A-“- Chartered Patent Agents, 34 and 35, HIGH HOLBOBN, LONDON, W.C. 1. Telegraphic Address—“ Privilege, London.” Tel. No.—Holborn 2763. SAFETY FIRST BELT RIGS. Cage Arresters and Detach HooK. Rope and Guide Cappies. JBL. HANLEY, Thirlmere, Sheffield. JOHN STANIAR & CO., Manchester, Eng. Wire Weavers & Metal Workers. Established over 100 Years. ---------- EVERY REQUISITE. ------------------- GAUZES in Silk and Wire. BRUSBES in Bristle, Weed, Fibre or Steel, for every known make of Brush Machine. PER FOR XI TED PL A TES in Iron, Steel, Zinc, Brass, Copper. GUARDS for Engines, Stores, Machines, Strapping, Lifts, &c. AWARD MEDALS—Japan-British 1910, Franco-British 1908. Telegraph—“ Gauze, Manchester.” Telephone—City 3306 THE ISCA FOUNDRY COMPANY LTD, RAILWAY PLANT GENERAL ENGINEERS, Switches, Crossings,Turntables, Water Cranes, Girders, Bridges, Roofs, Pipes, Pumps, Wagons, Tanks, Engines, Boilers, Cranes, Works : NEWPORT, MON. London Office—53, Victoria Street, S.W. 1. D. Llewellin Evans, PROPRIETOR OF THE Cardiff Brattice Cloth Company, «2O, BUTE ST., CARDIFF. AGENT FOR Wobers Explosives, ASSOCIATION |OF PRIVATE i OWNERS OF RAILWAY ROLLING STOCK. Formed in 1891 for'the Protection of the Rights and ^Interests of Private Owners. Applications for particulars and [terms of membership’may be sent tcTthe SECRETARY, Clarence Chambers,^Gloucester.^ The Oldest Diamond Drill Company. Established 1872. PORING for ^JIXERALS. SPEED AND CERTAINTY. CYLINDRICAL “CORES.” THE AQUEOUS WORKS and DIAMOND ROCK-BORING Co. Ltd. Guildford St., York Road, Lambeth, London, S.E. Besides numerous other Important Contracts, completed (in 1897) the Deepest Boring in the United Kingdom to 3,500 ft. Great Experience in Boring for WATER. The U.M.S. LESSONS BY POST. The best Mining Education. Unapproachable Successes. 52 H.M. Inspectors are U.M.S. Men. — Syllabus free. — THE UNIVERSAL MINING SCHOOL ») 5 0, Connaught Road, Cardiff. Briquette Machinery Ltd., Charmouth Street, LEEDS. Machinery for Briquetting Peat, Lignite, Coke, Coal, Iron, Copper, Nickel, Cement; Also Sawdust, Waste Cereals, Offals, Sewage. PATENT COAL DRIER. See Illustrated Advt. Electrical Machinery PEEBLES in Feb. 22nd issue. BRUCE PEEBLES & Co. Ltd. Engineers, EDINBURGH. _ YEADONS’ LATEST PATENTED BRIQUETTE MACHINERY, For Coal, Coke, Iron and other Ores. YEADON, SON & CO., Engineers, LEEDS, Have a World-wide Reputation, and 40 Years’ Experience. They have supplied MORE BRIQUETTE PLANTS than any other firm in this country. RAILS. RAILS. ALL SECTIONS AND ACCESSOBIES. Also quantity F.B. suitable for bearers. Sleepers. Timbers. Switches and Crossings. Buffer Stops. Locomotives. Cranes. Wagons. ARMYTAGE & JONES Ltd., Sheaf Street, Sheffield. Clarke, Chapman & Co. Ld., GATESHEAD. Wires— “Cyclops, Gateshead.” Telephones— 1070, 1073 Central; 137 City. 2196 Central, Trunk Line. WATER TUBE ROILERS (‘ ‘ Woodeson ’ ’ Patents), Suitable for the highest pressures. All tubes straight, of equal length, and nearly vertical. Catalogue and Prices on application. THE KOFPERS’ PATENT BYE-PRODUCT COKE OVENS AND NEW SYSTEM OF RECOVERING THE BYE-PRODUCTS GIVE RESULTS WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN EQUALLED BY ANY OTHER SYSTEM. See large advertisement appearing in alternate issues of this Journal. All communications to be addressed to— THE KOPPERS’ COKE OVEN & BY-PRODUCT CO., 301, Glossop Road, Sheffield. TeL NOo 1935. Tel. Address—Kochs, Sheffield.’* Geo. N. Dixon & Co., 43, Cattle Street, Liverpool, Auctioneers and Valuers, COLLIERIES, Brickworks & Mining Plant. WANTED. A F8 A IRON & STEEL, of every description. M a K fl J* COLLECTED WROT. & STEEL, separated or mixed, TURNINGS & BORINGS, heavy, medium & light, ■BfiSSBSKMI BOILERS, for pressure, tanking or scrap. Very highest prices free on rail any district. HAIaL, LEWIS CO. - ’Phone—3245 (Private Branch Exchange). Telegrams—“ Halcyon, Cardiff.” ARCHIBALD BAIRD & SON LTD. HAMILTON. Telegrams—Excello. Telephone—No. 57. xeiepnone—rtu. o i. A*** ~~ Makers of — GUTTA PERCHA PUMP BUCKETS, RINGS & WASHERS. AND ALL COLLIERY REQUIREMENTS. Stop Taking Risks! Highest Efficiency, Longest Service obtained by using only “CHEKKO” BRAKE & CLUTCH LINERS. CRESSWELLS’ LD., Wellington Works, Bradford. “TOLEDO” (APPROVED BY WOOLWICH ARSENAL). An Absolute Rust Preventer. WAGON AND COLLIERY PAINT & INSULATING VARNISHES. W. W. Hill, Son & Wallace Ltd., Elton St, Broughton Bridge, MANCHESTER. ---- ESTABLISHED 1840. - 5/6 per Cwt. WASTE PAPER Or Three Times the Price of Coal! We will pay you the above price, send you sacks and pay carriage. THE PAPER MILLS SUPPLY CO., Dept. “C.G.,” South Square, BOSTON, Lincs. The above is the MAXIMUM GOVERNMENT PRICE for UNSORTED WASTE, and no one is allowed to pay more. Prices for Sorted Grades and Account Books on Application. London Office: Anglin & Co., 68, Milton Street, London, E.C.2. Telephone : Central 1706. 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. The 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. 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, an experienced Colliery Mechanical DRAUGHTSMAN. Apply, stating age, experience and salary required— FFAIiDATT COIiEIERIES CO. LTD., Merthyr House, Cardiff. Wanted, a Certificated Surveyor and DRAUGHTSMAN for a new Colliery.—Apply, stating age, expe- rience and salary required, to Box 7012, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31 Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, a Colliery Enginewright for a new Colliery.—Apply, stating age, experience and salary required, to Box 7013, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. I. Surveyor Wanted for North Staffordshire Colliery. Must hold H.O. Certificate for Surveying.—Apply, stating age, experience and salary required, with copies of two recent testimonials, to Box 7004, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4. Wanted, Colliery Electrician, working, used to a.c. and d.c. plant and signals, and telephones.—State age, wage, experience, when at liberty, to Box 7007, Colliery Guardian Office, 30 & 31, Furnival-street, Holborn, London, E.C. 4.