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The Ottumwa Box Car Loader Co., of Ottumwa,
Iowa, has just completed the purchase of the Fair-
Williams Bridge & Manufacturing Co. plant of that
city, the latter being a plant for the manufacture
of steel bridges. It is the intention to consolidate
the business of these two companies under the
management of the first named, with largely increased
capital, and the manufacture of bridges
will be carried on on a much larger scale. It is
the intention of the management to be prepared to
build almost anything in the line of bridges, structural
iron work, hoisting and haulage engines,
steel tipples, coal cars, picking up machinery, the
Ottumwa Box Car loader, "Rocking Cradle" loader,
the "Little Wonder" loader, and coal mining machines.
The new plant will be made one of the
largest of its kind in the west.
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The Ohio Brass Co.. whose plant at Mansfield,
0., was partly destroyed by fire May 24, has made
a recovery that is little short of remarkable and
which reflects credit on its energetic management.
Within a few hours after the fire arrangements
were made for space and power in neighboring
factories and the work of replacing both raw and
finished stock was begun immediately. The result
of the company's efforts was that practically none
of its shipments were delayed by the fire except
a few rush orders and it is now meeting the demand
of its patrons with its customary promptness.
The burned buildings and equipments are
being replaced upon a much more extensive scale.
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The Homestake Mining Co. has adopted pneumatic
haulage for its gold mines at Lead, S. D.,
and has just placed an order with the Ingersoll-
Sergeant Drill Co. for a mammoth duplex fourstage
Corliss air compressor to supply the power.
The success of air locomotives and compressors
has been demonstrated by experiments covering
more than a year. Fourteen pneumatic locomotives
are to be installed to supersede the present
mule service. There are already seven other Ingersoll-Sergeant
air compressors in active service
at the Homestake mine supplying 19,413 cubic
feet of free air per minute.
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Price circular No. 3 of the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal & Iron Co., dated June 1, quotes the following
prices per gross ton for Schuylkill white
ash coal on cars at Buffalo or bridges: Grate.
$5.25; egg, $5.50; stove, $5.50; chestnut. $5.50.
The prices f. o. b. vessel Buffalo are 25 cents per
ton higher and to dealers 25 cents per ton lower,
with a reduction of 30 cents per ton on all the
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 45
foregoing quotations. Pea coal to dealers is quoted
at $3.35 per ton net and the circular announces
that prices on selected lump will be furnished on
application.
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A 175-page book, L 510, describing and illustrating
a complete line of steam, electric, gas and
power-driven compressors of all types, including
single and duplex and simple and compound; single
and multi-stage, etc., is being distributed by
the Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co. of New York City.
It gives the results of the latest investigations
upon air-valve gears and shows a gear combining
the quietness, efficiency and high speed qualities
of mechanically-moved valves with the elasticity
of poppet valves.
The Jeffrey Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, O.,
has issued an illustrated leaflet describing its
swing hammer crushers and pulverizers. A number
of types of crushers and their parts are shown,
the whole forming a supplement to the firm's pulverizer
catalogue No. 30.
Three Storage Plants for the Lehigh.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Co. has begun the work
of erecting three large coal storage plants, of a capacity
of 150,000 tons each, to be located at Lancaster,
near Depew, N. Y., Coxton and Black Creek,
near Pen Haven Junction. The plant at Lancaster
will be used for the storage of coal destined
principally to points on the great lakes, the
Coxton plant for the storage of surplus coal from
the company's upper coal fields, and the Black
Creek plant for Lie Hazleton district surplus. At
the Lancaster plant the Dodge system of coal
storage will be introduced, and the contract has
been let to the Link Belt Engineering Co. As to
the others no contracts beyond those for grading
have been let.
New Ruling on Stream Pollution.
The Pennsylvania supreme court has upheld an
injunction granted by the Northumberland county
court restraining the Penn Anthracite Coal Co.
from polluting a stream of that county. The supreme
court in affirming the county court in two
cases, said: "This case is to restrain the defendant
from pumping impure water, which has accumulated
in a coal mine, into a stream where it
polluted the supply of drinking water for more
than 30,000 persons, when, by the construction of
a flume, the mine water could be diverted into
another course where it could injure no one. The
case is clearly one for the granting of a preliminary
injunction."