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46 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
The Coal Dock Supply & Equipment Co. lias
been organized at Chicago, for the purpose of manufacturing
and dealing in coal handling machinery,
equipment and supplies. This conipany will
make a specialty of this line of business in order
to facilitate the source of supply covering all the
requirements of docks throughout the country.
It will handle every thing used on or around a
dock, including steel structural work, hoisting
plants, clam shells, pumps, buckets and tubs, box
car loauers, wire ropes, cars, turnbuckles, sheaves,
engines, supplies, etc. The president and manager
is Mr. Robert N. Lysle, who has made a
special study of docks and coal handling equipment.
Mr. Lysle was associated with the Hoisting
& Conveying Machinery Co. since its organization,
and as engineer and draftsman, has designed
some of the largest and most successful
plants erected in recent years. The conipany
will act as consulting engineers, or will contract
to erect plants complete, or furnish anything used
on a dock. They will also act as sales agents for
the Ottumwa Iron Works, and will have offices at
19 South Canal street, Chicago.
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The Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co., Cincinnati. O..
has issued an interesting catalogue, Bulletin L 508,
in which is illustrated and listed a line of compressors
which it is now putting on the market,
and which embody several marked advances in air
compressor construction. These machines are
being built in eight general classes, each sub
divided into groups suitable for varying conditions
of steam and air pressure. These classes
are as follows: Duplex steam, duplex air; duplex
steam, two-stage air; cross-compound steam,
non-condensing, duplex air; cross-compound steam,
condensing, duplex air; cross-compound steam.
non-condensing, two-stage air; cross-compound
steam, condensing, two stage air: duplex, singlestage,
power-driven compressors; duplex two-stage.
power-driven compressors; straight-line compressors.
The Sullivan Machinery Co. of Chicago reports
the addition of two branch offices to its list, one
at Knoxville, Tenn., and one at Joplin. Mo. The
Knoxville office, with quarters in the Houston
building, is in charge of Mr. E. L. Thomas, for
several years connected with the New York
branch. Rock drills, stone channelers and quarrying
machinery are carried in stock. Mr. S. A.
Allison, who has been the company's representative
at Joplin for the past two years, now becomes
district manager at that point. A stock of
Sullivan compressors, rock drills and duplicate
parts and supplies is carried at the company's
ware house at Joplin. The new office is in the
Keystone hotel block, corner of Fourth and Virginia
avenues.
J. W. Ellsworth & Co., Cleveland, O., have given
a contract to the Great Lakes Engineering Works.
of Detroit, Mich., for a twin screw steel car ferry
to operate between Ashtabula, 0., and Port Burwell,
Ontario, in connection with the Pennsylvania
Lines in Ohio and the Canadian Pacific in
Ontario. The vessel will have four tracks, with
a capacity for thirty fifty-ton cars, and will be
equipped with engines capable of twelve miles
an hour. It will be 350 feet over all, 56 feet
beam and 20 feet deep from deck to keel, and will
be of the enclosed type, with accommodations for
passengers and crew on the upper deck. It will
be equipped with triple-expansion engines and
Scotch boilers.
The annual report of the Virginia Iron, Coal &
Coke Co. for the fiscal year ended June 30, issued
September 23, makes a favorable showing. Net
earnings amounted to $516,512 and surplus after
taxes and charges to $89,679, against a deficit of
about $30,000 last year. The company's gross
business was $3,769,912. During the year a
traffic agreement was made with the Norfolk &
Western railway by which the company gets freer
shipments of its products and some concession
in freight charges on raw material shipped to its
furnaces.
Senator Henry G. Davis of West Virginia announces
that during next year his Coke & Coal
railway, extending from Charleston to Elkins, W.
Va.. will ship nearly 2,000,000 tons of coal and
coke, about half east and half west. Next year
he estimates that his road will give the Reading.
at Shippensburg, about 300,000 tons of coal and
coke, and the Pennsylvania about 200.000 tons.
This is apart from what the Baltimore & Ohio will
carry to destination, and from what the West
Virginia Central-Western Maryland line wnl have.
A Berlin cable dispatch announces that the
Japanese found 150,000 tons of the best Cardiff
coal in Port Arthur, whilst General Stoessel had
reported to the czar that the supply had been exhausted.
It is alleged that the Russian reports
were manipulated by charging departing craft of
their navy with taking aboard 2.000 or 3,000 tons
more than the actual amount.
At a meeting of the operators of the Kanawha
coal district, along the Kanawha & Michigan and