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COAL FROM BENEATH THE OCEAN.
There was recently formally completed on the
Cumberland coast of England a work which is not
only unique in its purpose, but embodies several
novel features in design. This is a barrier nearly
7,000 feet long, built in a semi-circular line from
shore to shore over the Duddon Sands, at Hodbarrow,
near Millom. for the Hodbarrow Mining Co..
Ltd., in order to exclude sea water from an area
of the foreshore 170 acres in extent, so that the
underlying rich coal deposits may be mined for a
distance from the present headings of 600 yards
seaward. The barrier is more than an embankment,
as it was necessary to exclude the sea not
only from the part of the estuary inclosed, but
also to prevent, as far as possible, percolation
through the substrata.
The height of the embankment above the sea
bed is 40 feet, and its flat top is 83 feet wide.
Nearly 1.500,000 tons of limestone, 1,000,000 tons
of clay and 150,000 tons of concrete have been
used in its construction, which has occupied nearly
five years, and its cost has been $2,500,000.
The wall is composed of huge blocks of concrete,
27 tons each, scattered higgledy-piggledy to
break the waves, a bank of limestone, clay standing
on steel piles driven from 26 feet to 35 feet,
so as to form a solid steel apron against the percolation
of water beneath the barrier proper, puddled
core, and limestone.
The operations of mining coal as carried on at
these collieries are probably the most interesting
in the world, as the prevailing practices in the
mines of most other sections are in a measure discarded
and extremely novel processes made use
of. A wall somewhat like, the one just finished.
except that it was much smaller and of much less
importance from an engineering standpoint, was
built some years ago, but by the means of this
last work the miners will soon be working where
the sea once rolled just above them. This wall
will give access to a great quantity of fuel which
will require many years to exhaust.
By-Products Coke Corporation, Solvay, N. Y.;
capital, ^o,000.000; incorporators, Rowland G. Hazard,
Peace Dale, R. I.; William B. Cogswell, Syracuse,
N. Y.; Morgan Wing, New York; Henry Martin,
Rutherford. N. J.; Frederick R. Hazard, Syracuse.
Pocahontas Coke Co., Bramwell, W. Va.: capital,
$150,000; incorporators, John J. Tierney, Philip
Goodwill, W. H. Bowen, Isaac T. Mann, James E.
Jones and Charles T. Thorne, the latter of New-
York City.
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Wolf Creek Coal & Land Co.. Charleston, W. Va.;
capital. $75,000; incorporators. Philip Frankenberger,
C. F. Sterrett. C. B. Couch, W. R. L. Sterr'ett
and Julius A. de Grayter. all of Charleston.
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Black Wolf Coal Co., Tazewell Va.; capital, $100,-
U00; incorporators, A. St. Clair, Tazewell, Va.;
George W. Moore, Jr., Lynchburg, Va.; George L.
Fleming, Lynchburg, Va.
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Summit Coal Mining Co., Flushing, O.; capital.
$40,000; incorporators, Charles F. Roy. B. Shoemaker,
J. S. Nichol, G. M. Shoemaker and Charles
H. Alexander.
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Minshall Coal Mining Co., Columbus, O.; capital.
$20,000; incorporators, T. E. Minshall, F. G. Hatton,
W. E. Westfall, W. D. Edwards and W. A.
Ireland.
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The Security Mining Co., Cincinnati; capital.
$15,000: incorporators. A. A. Kumler. R. G. Reed.
John M. Walsh, Theodore M. Foucar and H. W.
Welland.
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Eastern Ohio Coal & Coke Co.. Canton; capital.
$1,000,000; incorporators H. B. Walter. J. W. Gorrell,
Hubbard Brown, C. W. Bower and D. H. Warfel.
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Muhoacin Coal Co.. Jersey City; capital. $250.-
000; incorporators, Harry M. Stoffel. A. C. Bagg.
Louis B. Dailey, Jersey City.
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Boyd Coal & Mining Co.. Dillon. O.; capital. $30.-
000; incorporators, Dennis, J. A.. S. P. and P. B.
McGarvey and F. E. Kess.
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Beach Creek Coal Co.. Milwaukee, Wis.; capital.
$25,000; incorporators, Harry Becker, Albert L.
Becker and W. B. Rubin.
Elm Grove Coal Co., McLeansboro, 111.; capital.
$2,000; incorporators, John T. Barnett, John W.
Mitchell, Joseph E. Daily.
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Little Vermilion Coal Co., Georgetown, 111.; capital,
$250,000; incorporators, L. D. Gass, M. B.
Bailey, C. M. Swallow.
Sixteen concerns bid for the contract for furnishing
50.000 tons of coal at Colon, for the use
of the Panama canal commission. The award has
not yet been made.