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36 THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
CAMERON PUMP WORKS MAKES
IMPORTANT CHANGES IN AGENCIES.
The A. S. Cameron Steam Pump Works announce
that they have withdrawn their agency from the
Mine & Smelter Supply Co., who are no longer
authorized by them to sell any of their pumps or
repair parts. They have transferred their agencies
to and are now represented by Cary & Fielding,
No. 1711 Tremont street, Denver, Colorado;
Utah Mining, Machinery & Supply Co., No. 228
South, West Temple street, Salt Lake, Utah; Ingersoll-Sergeant
Drill Co.. El Paso, Texas; Victor
M. Braschi & Co., Cadenas street No. 2, Mexico
City, Mexico. These firms will carry a full line
of the "Cameron" pumps and repair parts in stock,
and doubtless will be able to fill all orders on
shortest notice.
In these transfers it would almost seem like a
return to old friends or the survival of the fittest,
as John Cary. and Robert Cary his brother, father
and uncle respectively of J. W. Cary of Cary &
Fielding, were the founders of the Mine & Smelter
Supply Co.. although they have since severed their
connection with it, and took over from the old
firm of C. E. Kennedy & Co. the agency for the
sale of the "Cameron" pumps, which they then
and have always regarded as one of the best if not
the very best agency they had; hence it is quite
apropos that one of the same name and related
to them should again represent the "Cameron."
The Utah Mining Machinery & Supply Co., while
not representing the Cameron heretofore, have
always been friendly and held the Cameron in
high esteem. The Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co.
have held close and cordial relations with the
Cameron for nearly thirty years, and at the present
time represent them not only in El Paso, Texas,
but in Berlin, Germany, in Great Britain, and for
more than ten years in the Transvaal, South
Africa.
Victor M. Braschi & Co., of Mexico City, Mexico,
have but recently secured the agency for the
Cameron, but Mr. Braschi has enjoyed a close
acquaintance with the Cameron for many years
through his earlier connection with the Rand
Drill Co., and later since he has been in business
Tor himself.
In addition to the stock transferred, three car
loads of pumps and parts have been received by
Cary & Fielding, and a car load each by the Utah
Mining, Machinery & Supply Co., the Ingersoll-
Sergeant Drill Co., anu Messrs. Victor M. Braschi
& Co., so that they are all no doubt well equipped
and eager for business.
The miners at Antrim. Pa., voted against a
sympathetic strike in support of the men who are
out in the Morris Run district.
COAL EXPORTS AT HUMBER PORTS.
The Humber river is one of the chief outlets
for the export coal trade of England. The Humber
penetrates far into the interior, and its tributaries
and canals offer unsurpassed lires of communication
to the coil mines of Lancashire and
Southwestern Yorkshire. Where there is no
water communication the numerous railroads
serve as carriers from the mines to the ports.
Within the area tributary to the Humber river
ports it is estimated that there are 40,000,000,000
tons of marketable coal yet to be mined. Hull is
the largest receiver and exporter of this coal, the
yearly average receipts being about 3,500.000 tons,
about 2.000.000 tons being for home consumption.
Hull also exports about half the amount that
goes abroad from the Humber ports. This coal
is sold here at an average price of $2.65 a ton.
Germany. Netherlands, Russia and Sweden take
•about two-thirds of the shipments, which go
chiefly to the Baltic ports. Hulls exports were
1,564,023 tons in 1903 and 1,581,190 tons in 1904.
Large shipments to the United States in 1903
were due to the anthracite coal strike in Pennsylvania.
When that was settled the amount fell
back to its former level. With its large exports
Hull has naturally availed itself of the latest inventions
for shippirg coal. Brought in directly
from the coal mines on tracks laid alongside the
docks, the loaded cars are hoisted bodily to the
proper height, the coal dumped into a chute, and
the cars run back on an elevated track.
COAL AREA OF THE GLOBE.
The British Royal commission on coal supplies
cites M. Loze's estimate of the coal areas of the
world still unworked. The table is as follows:
Sq. Miles.
China 232,500
United States '. 200,000
Canada 65,000
India 35,000
New South Wales 24,000
Russia in Europe 20.000
United Kingdom 12,000
Spain 5,500
Japan 5,000
France 2,500
Austria-Hungary 1,800
Germany 1,700
Belgium 500
Total 605,500
In this statement Siberia, Central Asia and
Africa are omitted, so that the total coal area of
the globe must, it is thought, be at least 800,000
square miles.