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