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ENGINEERING AND

THE COAL INDUSTRY OF JAPAN.

EXTENT OF THE COAL RESERVES AND THEIR LIMITATIONS.

INCREASING IMPORTS OF FOREIGN

COAL FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES.

(ASSISTANT, COMMERCIAL ATTACHE WILLIAM S. DOWD, TOKYO.]

chi in Ibaraki Prefecture, both near Tokyo. The most important Japan-

General Condition in Japanese

RUBBER ROADS IN SINGAPORE.

MUNICIPAL REPORT ON EXPERIMENTS.

References to the rubber road paving experiments are made in the report for 1031 aued by Mr. K. Fraser, the Singapore Muni- - Engüicër. H Fraser cipál writes:

the

• Coal Trade.

Potential domestic reserves are fairly large, but those which can

The Municipal Commissionera as. be worked profitably are rapidly sisted Mr. G. Parry Davis to carry gatting smaller. This is proved by out experiments on rubber road. the decrease in number of coal com- paving made direct from latex col- lected from a local rubber estate, by panies in operation. The small or supplying labour, materials, and the t-poorly equipped mines and the com- use of plant. The trial strips were panies with limited financial re-though classified as a public road

laid on Trafalgar Street, which-

sources have not been able to con tinue in the face of reduced demand and falling prices. At present, the

The latex, treated to prevent pre- large companies with good deposits mature coagulation, was brought and modern well equipped mines from the estate in a street water. are producing the greater part ofing van. It was then mixed with china clay, coke ground to the con the output, and should be able to sistency of flour, and chemicals, in maintain their positions for some accordance with Mr. Parry Davis' prescription, to form a thick years to come.

paste, which was poured on to the prepared road foundation to thickness of about two incles.

The growing use of fuel oil and Diesel enginca has contributed to the difficulties of the coal industry. limited, and the Japanese Navy has Japan's resources of crude oil are

serves mainly

Municipal granite crushing depot and asphalt

lost,

The first experimental strip was

There is a wide variation in plants, iron and steel manufacture, estimates of coal reserves in Japan; gas production, fuel for ships, and n Government survey completed in by the cement, chemical, and for- 1911 indicated pile resources of tilizer industries. Modern banker about 8,800,000,000 metric tons, and handling equipment has been in e later survey shows a total of 'stalled in several ports in Kyushu, around ́17,000,000,000 tons, accord, where farge tonnages car bo ing to igures recently released by handled. Bunker coal is taken bere the Department of Commerce and by both Japanese and foreign ships,

laid, on a half width of the road, Industry.

by the Japanese Navy and by Uni-just purchased 333,000 barrels of during May. Its arou wha 50 Honshu, the main island, has ted States Navy and transports in fuel oil from an American com-square yards, laid on a concrated many deposits of coal but few of the Far East, which have taken pany. The lack of domestic oil sup. foundation, a cust of $751.10, of ply will favour the domestic cost which 8301.40 was paid for the size or quality to make them of substantial amounts every year for producers as long as they can main latex, this amount being based on o commercial importance. The two the past 30 years.

tain prices and quality on a corsa charge of 20 cents per lb. for the petitive basis.

dry rubber content of the latex. principal operations are at Iwaki

During the past three years con.

In the meantime, Japan is de The second experimental strip was in Fukushima Prefecture and Hita-

sumption has been dropping off, veloping coal resources in Chosen laid in half-widths at a time to the following increased use of electric and Manchuria-another drawback full width of road over an area of power, substitution of fuel oil for to operation of the mines in Japan 100 square yards, on a foundation proper. However, with limited re-of macadam. The first half-width esa deposits are on Kyushu, group-cool on ships and installation of cources in raw materials, the an was laid in two days, 27th and 28th ed in three fields. The Chikuho is Diesel engines, which have replaced xiety to develop manufacturing reNovember (the work being inter- in the northern part of the island, team in most of the large ships fust be kept at the lowest cost, pus in one day, December 14. It was quires that an important item like rupted by rain), and the second half: | where a large industrial and ship built in Japan recently. Installa-sible, and if Chosen and Manchuria found that, though still plastic, ping development is located, and tion of powdered coal burners in can produce coal for less than the lorries could pass over the paving at Miike, in the zouth-central part, large power plants has also cut that production within Japan willing, and that gradually the com-.

cast in Japan, it appears probable within a few days' time after lay. the Mitsui company has developed down the requirements, and in be allowed to decline. The probable position hardened up and gained rẻ. since 1901 an important group of creased efficiency in locomotives and reserves in Manchuria are much silence. industrial operations and one of the steam plants has had an adverse smaller than those in Japan, but effect There has also been a marked the Manchurian coal can be pro finest modern coal-bandling and dectense in sales to China, one of duced at a lower cost than that for shipping facilities in the Empire. the best export markets.

the remaining Japanese reserves. The other Kyushu field is the oldest tinted considerably in recent years, given to the hydrogenation of coal Japanese consumption has fuc: Careful, attention is now being ir Japan; it is near Nagasaki, and but was generally on the increase for producing oil, and several large production comes largely from un-up 1928, lon it reached, companies are experimenting with der the ocean.

Here are located 34,401,000 tons; it then declined to this subject, looking toward erected of plants for the purpose later. If also the deepest shafts, two being

The average per capita consump- this process can be proved eommer- over 1,300 feet deep. The Kyushu tion is about one-half ton a year. cially successful it may prova a help [ fields at various times have pro-Increased use of gas and electricity to the coal industry, as a large sup for heating will probably cause this ply of coal suitable for hydrogena. duced from 60 to 75 per cent. of the to be reduced somewhat, but char- tion is available in Japan total Japanese output.

coal still remains the popular fuel | for buth heating and cooking in the middle and lower class homes, in

At the time of the World Engi- cering Congress in October, 1920,

a. tablo

and

to

24,043,000 in 1931.

Exports Small but Fairly Steady.

Japan. prepared showing i was Јарапове proved reserves of 874,000,000 tons, and probable c serves of 3,001,000,000 tons. The

Most of the Japanese coal ́output total of 7,835,000,000 tons was divided into 3,101,000,000 in Hok is consumed within the country, but knido, 2,630,000,000 in Kyushu, during the past 10 years there have 1,584,000,000 ΑΠ Sakhalin,

beon exports of about 2,000,000 tons 14,000,000 in Hanihu, The Im-year. The high record for recent porial Geological Survey estimated years was 2,700,000 tons exported in a proved and probable total of 1925, but foreign shipments have 7,970,000,000

which continued above 2,000,000 tons a of tons, 2,918,000,000 were attributed to year, until 1931, when they dropped Kyushu and 2,673,000,000 to Hok to 1,315,808 tons from 2,007,200 tone kaido. It also estimates 81.000,000 sold abroad in 1930. These exports tone in Chasen and 1,208,000,000 in go to various places in the Far East Manchuria. This estimate includes where market conditions permit 170,000,000 tons of anthracite and competition with other coal-produc- 203,000,000 of lignite, divided being countries, principally China, tween Honshu, Chosen, and Man- the Philippines, British India. Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, churia: the Manchurian deposits Indo-China, and the South Sea being listed as unproved.

Low Outpost of Individuai Miner Japanese production of coal has varied somewhat from year to year,

Islands.

The largest drercese has been in exports to China, which took 820,418 tons in 1931, compared with 1,302.0906 in 1930 and 1,383,782 in 1920. How- ever, recent reports indicate that some of the former Chinese custom-

Imports of Foreign Coal.

It showed a general increase until, who have not been able to secure their supplies elsewhere, recently, when competition from have started to buy Japanese coal. fuel oil and Diesel engines con-again. Other important shipments tributed to the depressed demand. 1031 were 367,880 tons to Hong Kyushu and Hokkaido have always Kong, 155,977 to Straits Settle- controlled. the bulk of the output,ments, and 142,723 to the Philippine And the annual production of the Islands, farmer averages, three times that of the letter. Total production in- creased from 21,763,405 tona in 1913 ta 33,800.181 iu 1928 and 34,257,817 The imports of coal into Japan in 1929, and then declined to consist largely of grades and kinds 25,897,000 tone in 1930 and 95,795,410 that are not produced in sufficient in 1931. These totala consist almost amount in the domestic fields. entirely of bituminoas; recent an- Very little anthracite is found in thracite output was 1,829,508 tons Japan, and the bulk of the supply in 1929 and 441,372 in 1930, prac- comes from China, Tongking, and tically all from Honshu.

Chosen. The Hongay anthracite, Japan is handicapped by low shipped from Tongking in French working efficiency of the individual Indo-China, comes into competition miner, most of the mines depending with anthracite from Chosen, and on hand labour. Some of the large the Government has under con- companies, however, use modern sideration..a plan to protect the methods. It has been reported that Chosen industry by putting a 70 in 1027 the Japanese miner proper cent, duty on the Hongay coal, duced only one-ninth as much coa! (of which 270,338 tons wore imported as the average, miner in the United in 1930.

States, and only 30 per cent. as Total imports of coal, recalded

LIGHTING & POWER INSTALLATION much as the German or English in long tons, rose from 187,000 tons

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minor, Where modern equipment in 1920 to 1,741,000 in 1923 and then is used production results are much to 3,203,238 in 1999; since that your better.

they have declined somewhat to In 1928 Japan had 272 coal min 2,050,250 tons in 1930 and 2,050,344 ing companies; the recent depresin 1931. Since 1922 exports and im- sion has reduced the number, and ports have been of almost equal the latest Government statistics now volume, about 9,000,000 tons ench report approximately 100 companies year. In addition to the Hongay Fin operation.

Souress of Coal Domand.

anthracite, Japan, is obliged to im port good coking coal such as is requited for the domestic iron and ateel industry as this grade ir not At one time production of salt. present in sufficient amounts in the furnished almost the only nondo Japanese fields. The rest of the jm- mestic demand for con, but the ports is made up of coal. from development of industry and manu Chosen and from the Fushun mines. facturing has greatly increased con- in Manchuria, as obals from these. sumption, It is now taken in points can be produced at a lower increasing quantities for...power cost than in Japan.

The price paid for the latex used in the second experiment was 10 cents per lb of its dry rubber con- tent, and the total cost of the se- 80.88 per square yard, made up an cond experiment was 8085.59, or follows:--

Per sq. yd. Lates

42140 Material genome 2:00 Labour, kaulage, grinding coke, tools, and roll- ing

3.17,

$9.80.

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