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44 THE <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE BULLETIN.<br />
Empire Coal Mining Co. of Pittsburgh.<br />
At the annual meeting of the Empire Coal<br />
Mining Co. in its general offices, Empire building,<br />
Pittsburgh, it was announced that at all of the<br />
plants of the company in Belmont county, Ohio,<br />
the three-entry retreating system of working is<br />
now being used. This has rarely been practiced<br />
before in the No. 8 vein of coal, in which this<br />
company works. Manager Louis F. Newman ex<br />
plained that by this system the company will be<br />
enabled to take out 80 per cent, of the body of its<br />
coal, whereas under the system generally employed<br />
in this field only 65 per cent, can be taken<br />
out with safety.<br />
The report for the year 1904 presented to the<br />
meeting showed that the company had produced<br />
and marketed about 500,000 tons, this despite an<br />
enforced idleness of six weeks by reason of a<br />
strike. All plants of the company were operated<br />
throughout the depression in the trade last summer.<br />
In 1903 the company sold its output to 51<br />
conecrns of whom 30 were brokers and 21 consumers.<br />
In 1904 it sold its coal to 183 customers.<br />
only 11 of whom were brokers and 172 consumers<br />
and in doing this the company had no sales agents<br />
traveling for it. The company's three mines are<br />
in practically perfect shape as to equipment, which<br />
is up-to-date and of the most economical char<br />
acter, with electric centralized power.<br />
On April 1 the general offices of the company<br />
will be moved to Bellaire, Ohio, so as to have the<br />
management located at the point of operations.<br />
A commonious new office bui'ding has been erected<br />
there to meet the requirements of the general and<br />
mine offices. The Pittsburgh headquarters of the<br />
company will be in the offices of I. W. Frank, who<br />
is treasurer.<br />
The following directors and officers were elected<br />
for the ensuing year: Joseph R. Paull, president:<br />
W. L. Kann, vice-president: I. W. Frank, treasurer;<br />
Ge<strong>org</strong>e Paull. secretary; Louis F. Newman,<br />
manager; Jacob Kaufmann and Edward Kneeland.<br />
Mr. Kneeland succeeds T. H. Bakewell, who retired<br />
from the board.<br />
The World's Main Coal Production.<br />
The production during 1904 of the three great<br />
coal producing countries of the world aggregated<br />
724,678,050 metric tons. Of this quantity the Uni<br />
ted States furnished 311,643,780 metric tons, Great<br />
Britain 243,840.000 and Germany 169,194,320 tons.<br />
The increase over 1903 was only a moderate one.<br />
The United States and Germany consume nearly<br />
the same quantity that they mine, their exports<br />
exceeding their imports by small amounts only.<br />
Great Britain, however, sends abroad nearly one-<br />
third of the coal produced, so that the home consumption<br />
is about equal to that of Germany.<br />
RECENT <strong>COAL</strong> TRADE PATENTS.<br />
The following recently granted patents of interest<br />
to the coal trade are reported expressly for<br />
Tut: <strong>COAL</strong> TKADB BULLETIN by J. M. Nesbit. Patent<br />
Attorney. Park building. Pittsburgh. Pa., from<br />
whom printed copies may be procured for 15 cents<br />
each:<br />
Coke oven appliance, Heinrich Koppers, Essenon-the-Ruhr,<br />
Germany; 781.213.<br />
Method of manufacturing gas and coke from<br />
crude oil. J. C. H. Stut, Oakland. CaL; 781,242.<br />
Electrical apparatus for separating coke from<br />
cinders, etc., Henri Lelarge. Liege, Belgium; 781,-<br />
;'47.<br />
Blasting apparatus. Samuel Rogers. Anniston,<br />
Ala.; 7S1.619.<br />
Retort coke oven, C. S. Mason, Buffalo, N. Y.;<br />
782.259.<br />
Means for distributing coal and other material.<br />
Jeremiah Campbell. Newton, Mass.; 782,485.<br />
Apparatus for making up mine car trains, (2)<br />
W. J. Patterson, Pittsburgh, assignor to Heyl &<br />
Patterson. Inc., same place; 783,070 and 783,130.<br />
Automatic valve for coal washers, (2), W. M.<br />
Duncan, Alton, 111.; 783.249 and 783,250.<br />
Automatic mine gate. J. A. Joyce. Cleveland,<br />
assignor to the American Mine Door Co., same<br />
place; 783,282.<br />
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