Significance of drafts in steam-boiler practice

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1909
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 167
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(09)90151-x

✦ Synopsis

IIO iN~OTES AND COMMENTS.

than by the competition of coal with fuel oil and natural gas, which has developed through the bringing in of the mid-continent and Louisiana fields, in addition to the already developed Beaumont district. A short cotton crop and a consequently lessened demand from ginning establishments, and a period of idleness from April I to June 15, pending a settlement of the wage scale, also adversely affected coal production in these States. Conditions in the later months of the year showed some improvement as compared with those in the first part, but at no time was there any excess of demand over supply. In the States of the Middle West operations were for a time suspended pending an adjustment of the wage agreement; elsewhere there were no serious troubles from strikes or lockouts. The labor supply was usually abundant, and transportation facilities were adequate for the requirements. It was the general impression at the close of the year that despite the prevailing tone of confidence a sudden return to prosperity was not to be expected, and that a return to normal conditions would be slow and gradual, and not in any sense a " boom."