ADVERTISEMENT.
CHINESE ENGINEERING AND MINING CO., Ld.
THIS Company possesses extensive and almost inexhaustible coal fields in North China. situated in the Kaiping District of the Province of Chihli, near the Gulf of Pechili, which are centred between the Port of Tongku and the Company's own Port of Chin Wang Tao.
The collieries are connected to both these seaports (62 miles East by rail from Tongku and 73 miles West by rail from Chin Wang Tao) and to Tientsin by the Imperial Railways of North China, and the Company has a canal of its own of about 15 miles in length connecting with all the great waterways of China.
The situation of the collieries is, therefore, all that can be desired from the point of view of speedy and economical transport.
Besides the mining of coal, the Company are manufacturers of coke, coal tar, bricks, Port- land cement, roofing and flooring tiles, water and drain pipes, lime, etc.
The Company have extensive workshops at Tongshan, and are able to undertake all kinds of iron work, machinery, and repairs for marine and land work.
The Company have a thoroughly equipped laboratory at the collieries, and are prepared to give reliable assays, to undertake analytical work, and to report on mining properties" in the Province of Chibli.
The Company possesses an efficient fleet of steamers, which are engaged chiefly in coal transport and partly in the general shipping and passenger trade in the North of China.
MINING.
Coal.
The coal produced by the Company is extensively used over the whole of the Coast of China. and is quickly supplanting the native product used in the interior on account of cheapness.
To suit the various demands of customers, the Company have classified their coal under the following three heads, viz.:-
No. 1 Lump is specially suited for “men-of-war" where great heat and durability, together with freedom from dust and the minimum of waste, regardless of cost, is assured.
It is equal to the best Cardiff coal.
Several of the allied Navies in North China, particularly the U.S. Navy, use this grade of coal for bunkering, and have repeatedly testified to its excellent steam-raising qualities.
It is also used with a proportion of dust from the same seams by the Kiangnau Arsenal at Shanghai as a "steel-making" coal with excellent results.
No. 2 Lump is a first-class steam coal, and compares favourably with the best Japanese, Ans- tralian or Scotch coals found in the East.
It is universally used on all the railways in North China.
Mixed with a proportion of small coal from the same seams, it makes an excellent bunkering coal for merchant cargo ships where steady steaming and economy, together with cheapness of price, are desiderata.
This combination of lump and dust is taken by all the great lines of coasters trading Nortin such as China Navigation Co., Indo-China S. N. Co., China Merchants' S. N. Co., North Deutsche Lloyd and Hamburg-America Line with the most gratifying results
No. 4 Lump makes a good class of coal for household consumption
There is a considerable demand for it, mixed with a proportion of small coal from the seam: which constitute No. 2, as abunkering coal, by some large shipping companies, and for steam raising in mills, factories, etc
Small and Dust Coal.-There is a very large consumption of the Company's small coal for bunkering purposes when mixed with its lump coal.
Its dust coal commands a very big market in meeting the demands of the Chinese for a cheap good fuel for brick burning, bean cake factories, distilleries, etc., and general domestic use.
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