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414 on the company's land was found to have in his posses6ion certain jars of contraband whiskey. He was discharged from the employ of the company, required to leave the neighborhood, and his store and home were purchased by the company and resold.

The company declares its plans for the company town will be a model for mining towns in America. The houses will be so constructed as to avoid the appearance of sameness, and hot and cold running water, sanitary plumbing of modern design and electric wiring are being provided for in each. In each deed or contract for a company house the owner or lessor is required to maintain flower and vegetable gardens.

At the annual meeting of stockholders the entire directorate, with one exception, was re-elected to office. The vote is regarded by the directors as an expression of approval and confidence. With the increased capitalization, arrangements for new mine openings and new tipples will be made promptly, the directors say, and the policy of the company in Americanization, education and production of coal at whatever price the market may dictate will be continued.

The company mines the Warfield, or No. 2 gas, seam, reciprocating plate feeder to a chute containing a running from 4i to 5£ ft., fairly level, with an excellent grizzly. The bars of this screen are spaced 6 in. apart. sandstone roof and fireclay floor. Some difficulty is The grizzly is hinged so that it may be raised, letting encountered in keeping the rooms dry. Entering by a the coal go through unscreened. Hinged veil plates also 45-deg. slope, lined on floor and walls with concrete, a are provided to cover the grizzly when desired. From the feeder chute, coal can be discharged to descent of about 60 ft. is made to the loading point. The cars arrive from the mine workings linked by either the far side—No. 2—of a 60-in. double pickingtable conveyor or onto both sides. The near side-swivel couplings and hauled by storage-battery locomotives. These latter will be used for main-haulage purposes until the territory opened makes it advisable to equipped with two flygates in series; one opens to the use trolley locomotives, when the storage-battery shaker screen and the other to the run-of-mine hopper; machines will be used for gathering purposes. The coal the end of the chute discharges to the elevator men is dumped on a rotary dump in a hopper, where it is tioned later. The far side—No. 2—of the picking table automatically weighed. Thence it falls into a bin 40 ft. discharges over a third flygate opening to the screen. deep with a storage capacity of twenty-five tons. Here The elevator previously mentioned raises the locomotive it is fed to a scraper conveyor which raises it to the coal and discharges it into a 3-ton weigh box, which in tipple, where it screens to 50 per cent lump, 20 per cent turn delivers to the coaling bin. When it is desired to load picked run-of-mine on the nut and egg and 30 per cent slack. Because of the excellence of the roof, the engineers' layouts for future development provide for some rooms 60 ft. wide.

Himler, president of the company, takes a fatherly interest in his men. "If the mine profits, the profit will go to the men," he says. "No employee wastes a penny's worth of material, and none will steal from the company either in money, material or time.

"I think we have found the cure for radicalism, for bolshevism, for Marxism. We have opened the way for the miner to become a mine owner himself, and I am confident that this will soon be true in every industry. I do not see how it is possible now to fail. I cannot see how any benefit can come from an everlasting struggle between labor and capital, nor can I see the necessity for such a fight.

"With our present limited resources the company is now sending two boys to college. One of these was a coal miner until he was eighteen years old. He will be [WEIGH' BOX graduated from Columbia University in two years. As our company grows we hope to have fifty boys in college all the time. I believe in my plan. I believe in America; we cannot fail."

in the Washington Herald, Representative Florian Lampert, of Wisconsin, advocated government ownership of coal mines.

—- Plant to Prepare Small-Size Locomotive Fuel and Coal for Domestic Purposes

By C. M. Schloss Denver, Col. THOSE who visit the tipple of the Merkle Coal Co., at Belt, Mont., almost invariably are impressed with the small size yet great efficiency and adaptability of the screening plant there installed. Versatility is not altogether uncommon in large tipples, but small ones possessing this characteristic are rare. The installation at Belt belongs to this latter class. When decision was made to make this installation, a tipple salesman, not himself an experienced designer, was called into consultation. To him the president and general manager of the coal company explained what was to be accomplished, insisting that mere'.y a "simple little tipple" was all that was desired. Design of this "simple little tipple" at first appeared impossible. In due time, however, it was accomplished, and the resulting plant is not as complicated as it looks. As may be seen in the accompanying illustration, pit cars are discharged by a kickback or goose-neck dump into a hopper from which the coal is fed uniformly by a

FLOW SHEET OF MERKLE TIPPLE The Merkle tipple Is one of the few bituminous coal tipples that crushes its product, in this case for locomotive use. Note the use of the grizzly or stationary screen, which In this case Is used only for the larger coal.