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Show MINE F0REW1EN MUKEJHIWIIG Helow nre tlip percentages received last Week at l'rlce of mine foremen and fire Ikw applicant taking the examination at the Tavern before Htale .Mine Inipcttor I'eltlt and Deputy Dep-uty Mine limpector Smith. Foremen Otto ltlvchnnl (t.7; A A Norgard. 89, Krank ItLdlne. 78; I William Unit, 84.8. JohJ HhIhmh, .!, Monroe Carlson, li; William 'Crawford. S7, Thomas akcly, 88.1; A U 87.8; Thnma Twecdle. 87 9. It U.KlrkpatrlcJ 91.2. Klro Hosilolinhelp, 79.t: Bam Wntcrfleld, 76; Fred Turner, 80.S; J. F Hcmclnrlffht, 76; Henry Wilcox, Hucnxsivi: ktaoks in run. miction or iiuu-k diamonds Feat la Incipient coal. It Ik made up of the more or lew thoroughly decomposed decom-posed and carb-mlzcd remain of plant nceurnulated under condition thnt have prevented their complete transformation Into gaseous and mineral min-eral matter. In the course of their growth plant scgrcgato carbon dlox-Ido dlox-Ido from the gase of the atmosphere niul, by the nld of sunlight, dccoinimsc It and water In their green Unties and rc(tphlna tho element Into cornpll-caled cornpll-caled organic compound. In whhh cat lion la tho chararterlilng element. ay Mining American. If tho compound formed In till way by practically all green plant decay de-cay In the nlr, they nre alowly changed backjlo gac again, chiefly by the nctlutle of plant and anlmala of tow order, the bloehemlcnl agent of decomposition. de-composition. If, however, the nlr I excluded from accumulation of plant material, chemical nnd physical change of quite n different character tnka place and much more alowly than when nlr I prrent by which !the egctnbte matter o only n part of II cotiHtltuent. In tho courae of audi changed nnd loMe two gae hydrogen nnd oxygen, oxy-gen, the chemlenl element thnt form woter dlmppenr mom quickly than enrbon, the third Important rheml'iil clement, which In combination with them form cellutore nnd llgnln. the compound of which mot plant tl-aue tl-aue nnd organ are composed. The cnrliou I coucentmled n mirh change continue, and the original plant mnterlal become more nnd more pure carbon. Feat, lignite, coal, nnthmclte nnd graphite, n form of carbon, nre Hie-cckkIvc Hie-cckkIvc lngca In thl proce of i-nr-bonUatlon n It I reprentcd In nature. na-ture. Hlmllnr change are made wood or other plant Mtructure w' they nre limited In cloned vemwl, rcxlduc left utter heating being r -r. coal, nlw a for.m of nearly pure lion. V. M. . A. WO UK Foil hKV- HltAI. COI.OII.MX CAMI'.s I'lnn to extend thp work of the Ymi n g Meii'a ChrUllun iimmocIiUIiiu to tho mining camp of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company In Colorado and Wyoming hno been launehcit at Denver. Colo. The work will be under tho direction of the Htale and International Inter-national officer of the Young Men' ChrUtlaii niriMK'lutlon with the co-operation of the company. Detail of the work were determined determin-ed at ii conference of Chnrle It. Tow-roil Tow-roil of N'ew York, Hccretary of tint In-diutrlnl In-diutrlnl department of the Interna-tlou Interna-tlou Young Men' ChrUtlan ntwicla-' ntwicla-' Hon committee, with W. H. Hopkln. tute Hecretnry nnd member of the conimlltee. Affording to Towaon, n yrcrelnry will give hi full time to dl-rectlon dl-rectlon of Young Men' ChrlMlnn n-Hocliitlon n-Hocliitlon work In the coal camp, the work being adapted to meet the nil around need of the men and that of the communltle. New building are to be coiiHlructed III evcr.l camp while In other prcKctit mruclure will bu remodeled to meet the need of tho work. The prnpoiial to Introduce niwocla-Hon niwocla-Hon work at the mining camp, according ac-cording to Towaon, wa auggcMed to l'reldent Welbnrn and John 1). Itock-efeller, Itock-efeller, Jr., who gao Immedlato approval ap-proval nnd authorization to tho auio-clatlon auio-clatlon to undertake the work. A preliminary purvey wa made to determine de-termine nt what camp tho men de-Hired de-Hired the nanoclatlon to undertake It work, tho ri'HiiltH of tliene Inqulrle being Hubmllted to Towaon nnd other cmiifurcoM for their guidance. Mnrjliiinl .Mini Vlxlt Here, Juineii llimllp of lliiltlmnre. chief engineer for the Coiuolldated Coal ooinmn of that city, haa been In Utah of Into conducting experiment with Carbon nnd Kmery county coal to determine their cokemaklng properties prop-erties and poiwlbllltle and the amount of coal tar that In given off by tho coal during tho proce of coko manufacture. manu-facture. While thee experiment have not u yet been completed, It I Ntated that Utah coal I productive of moro coal tar than I tho cae with any other aoft coal In tho United Statex. Inorenaed Intereit I being tuken. nt the present time, In the production pro-duction of coal tar In America than ever before, owing to tho fact that uoul tar enter, quite largely, In the" manufacture of dyentuff. which commodity. com-modity. In tho past, ha been Import-, Import-, ed from Oermuny to u very large orient. |
