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34 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
distress. In other words, all the indications,
with the exception of the figures of exports and
imports shown in the British blue book, are that
the past year has been anything but a prosperous
one for the British people.
Mr. J. R. Robinson, president Robinson Machine
Co., Monongahela, Pa., recently visited some of the
mines in Illinois and Indiana where the Robinson
fans are installed and made a number of tests. At
the mine of the Indiana Hocking Co., Farmersburg,
Ind.. he tested a 6-foot fan which is being
operated by a direct connected 9x8 inch engine
and the result obtained showed the fan to be furnishing
93,392 cubic feet of air per minute against
a 1.2-inch W. G., the speed of the fan being 286
revolutions per minute. The Robinson fan is
growing in favor among the Western operators.
Mr. E. J. Stein, for eighteen years with the
Joseph Walton Coal Co. of Louisville, Ky., and for
the last two years in California for his health,
has returned to Louisville and become connected
v ith the Eclipse Coal Co.
Mr. William C. Atwater, of William C. Atwater
& Co. has gone South to enjoy a short recreation
trip. He will also visit the company's mines in
the Pocahontas field before he returns.
Mr. C. L. Denison has been elected president
of the Iroquois Coal Co.. which owns the Brock
mine at Brockwayville, Pa., he being a half owner
of it.
The engagement of Mr. Frank Pardee, the Hazleton,
Pa., coal operator, to Miss Alice Ross, of
Brooklyn, is announced.
The harbor tug Joe Seay turned turtle near
Vieksburg. Miss., on November 22, and went down
in 100 feet of water. Engineer Walter Bobbs and
a negro deck hand were drowned. The tug, a
steel hull vessel valued at $25,000, was the property
of the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
& Coke Co.. of Pittsburgh.
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A fire believed to have originated from spontaneous
combustion recently destroyed a chute
containing 6,000 tons of soft coal at the Illinois
Central shops, Memphis. Tenn. The fire was a
spectacular affair, lasting several days, and being
at all times absolutely beyond the control of the
city firemen.
The steamer Germanic, owned by Hutchinson
& Co., of Cleveland, ard valued at $45,000, was
burned recently at Stag island, in the St. Clair
river. The Germanic had been aground, and was
loaded with 2,000 tons of soft coal.
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The general office and commissary of the Corona
Coal & Iron Co. was destroyed by fire on November
23. The loss is estimated at between $25,000
and $30,000, and is only partly covered by insurance.
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The machine shops and engine houses of the
Renicke Coal Mining Co., at Madisonville, Ky.,
have been destroyed by fire, entailing a heavy loss,
partly covered by insurance.
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Fourteen miners were killed at the Carbondale
mines, near Morissey. B. C, by an explosion of
coal gas on November 18.
On account of the excess of acid in the lower
Monongahela river more than $500,000 worth of
apparatus is in use in mills below the mouth of
the Youghiogheny for the purpose of neutralizing
the water before it is allowed to go into the
boilers. The cost of operating the apparatus, including
the wages of chemists, amounts at some
plants to from $10,000 to $15,000 a year, not to
speak of the expense the acid causes to steamboat
owners.
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The Phoenix Iron Works Co., of Meadville, Pa..
have received notice from St. Louis that the International
Philippine jury of the Exposition, in
its capacity of associate of the board of the Exposition,
under the presidency of Secretary of War
William H. Taft, has awarded them a gold medal
for the compound engine exhibited in the power
plant of the Philippine government board.
The Ward Shaft Association, composed of the
Gould and Curry, Savage. Chollar, Potosi, Bullion,
Alpha Consolidated, Exchequer and Julia Consolidated
companies in the Comstock lode, has
awarded to the International Steam Pump Company,
of New York, and the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Co., of Pittsburgh, the
contract for an $80,000 pumping plant.
A special steam-head for operating deep-well
pumps is described in Bulletin L-6f)2, published
by the Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co., of New York
City. This device is designed for pumping from
all classes of wells where it is necessary to place
the pump cylinder far below the steam cylinder.