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fl CONSTRUCTION and DEVELOPMENT, ft
The Pawnee railroad, a nine-mile connection of
the Alton in Illinois, is to be extended 20 miles
eastward to Taylorville, Christian county, the
Peabody and Victor Coal Cos. being largely interested
in the enterprise. These companies have
secured the rights to lietween 35.000 and 40,000
acres of coal land along tne proposed extension,
acquiring it before tne project became known and
when the land because of its distance from a railroad
connection was inexpensive. The land acquired
embraced most of the property along the
20-mile extension for a width of several miles.
The coal seam to be developed is No. 5, which
lies to a depth of about 350 feet. At Taylorville
the railroad extension will obtain connection with
the Wabash and the B. & O. Southwestern.
The United States Coal & Oil Co., of Boston,
which owns and operates a large tract of coal
land at Holden, Logan county, West Virginia, has
commenced the construction of coal piers and
handling facilities at Huntington, W. Va., with
a view to transporting its coal over the Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad and to utilize the loading
plant now being constructed to dump into boats
for delivery to Ohio river points. A tipple with
3,000 tons capacity is now being erected at Huntington,
W. Va., while a considerable amount of
dredging will have to be done to make this part
of the river navigable.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. -13
E. W. Sawyer, superintendent of the Pittsburgh, There were 100 steel cars to be built for the
Binghamton & Western Railway, states that the London Metropolitan Railway when it was decided
work of grading and constructing the new line
io convert the system to electric power. The con­
will begin soon at three different points. One
tract for these cars was secured by the American
construction crew will work west from Canton to
Car & Foundry Co. under conditions demanding
Ansonia, Pa., where connection is to lie made
the highest possible speed of construction, and
with the Buffalo & Susquehanna; from Towanda,
this very fact called for the best of tools and most
Pa., two forces of men will be put at work, one
up-to-date manufacturing equipment. The work
working eastward and the other toward the west,
to be done called for a great number of pneumatic
while at Binghamton a fourth gang will work
tools; and since the contract covered only a short
westward. At Binghamton the P., B. & W. will
period, the plant installed was necessarily tem­
connect with the Delaware & Hudson. The Cenporary
in character. The order for the complete
tral Pennsylvania Coal Co., an auxiliary concern,
pneumatic equipment was placed with the Inger­
acquired a lease of nearly 7,000 acres of coal land
soll-Sergeant Drill Co.. of New York and London,
in Lycoming and Tioga counties several months
and the appliances furnished are of the company's
ago, and a branch will be built south from tht
standard types. The tool equipment proper in­
main survey of the P., B. & W. to tap that field.
cluded eighteen 8-inch and twenty-five 5-inch Haes-
Coal from the Goodyear mines, in Clearfield
eler riveting hammers, and sixteen No. 7 and
county, will be delivered to the new road at
twenty-four No. 12 Haeseler rotary drills—eighteen
Ansonia by the Buffalo & Susquehanna.
in all. The air compressors, four in number, are
of the builder's class ".IC" duplex two-stage machines
of balanced type, with a heavy inside flywheel,
solid sub-base, and semitangye frames.
At rated speeil of 150 R. P. M., each compressor
has a displacement of 526 cubic feet, giving a
total free air capacity to the plant of 2,104 cubic
feet per minute, which is delivered at a pressure
of 80 pounds.
W. H. Colburn will soon begin the building of a
railroad from Las Vegas, N. M.. to coal fields
owned by him near Mineral Hill.
The Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Co., of Seattle,
The Northwestern Peat Fuel Mfg. Co. will at
once begin work on its factory in Norwood, Minn.
We are in receipt of a notably handsome and
comprehensive booklet from the Austin Separator
Co., Detroit, Mid.., designed as catalogue 15. It
is an advance copy of the work, which we understand
to be now ready for distribution on appplication.
Described and exceptionally well illustrated
in this catalogue are an extensive line of
separators, including standard, receiver and accumulator
types for eliminating water from live
steam, extracting oil. grease and other impurities
from exhaust steam, and for removing oil, grit
and moisture from compressed air, gas, etc. The
subject matter in this catalogue is a complete exposition
of me theory and principles of construction
of the best types of separators. It
cannot fail to interest steam users and engineers
who seek greater efficiency and economy in the
operation of their plants. Two especially interesting
features are a special oil separator, put on
the market recently to meet requirements never
before fulfilled, and the company's new vacuum
oil separator.
Wash., is reconstructing its plant in Renton, at a
cost of $100,000.