INDEX.
Reading edition
Asbestos, meaning of, 5 description, 7, 9 origin unknown, 12 only found in serpentine, 12 places where found, 13 first successful experiments with, 15 difference between Canadian and Italian, 16, 22 where used, 18 analysis, 20 Italian kinds, 21 sources of supply, 13, 24 marketable value, 28 first discovery of, 29 profitable nature of mining for, 31, 51 annual production, 52 aggregate output, 51 uses of, 55
Aldini, Chevalier, 15, 18, 66
Amiante, 8
Anecdotes, 5, 13, 54, 60
Anglo-Canadian Company, 27, 36
Antimony, 48
Ballooning, military, 58
Bastard asbestos, 27
Boiler coverings, 58, 70
Boot soles, lining for, 67
Boston Company's mine, 31
Breeches of big guns, 56
Broughton mines, 42
Building operations, use in, 61
Canadian mineral estates, typical, 48
Carriage of explosives, 60
China, strange use of asbestos in, 15
Cement, 70
Chrome iron, 28, 36, 51
Chrysotile, 8
Cloth and paper, 67
Clothing for firemen, 66
Coating ironclads, 57
Cobbing, 52
Cold storage, 67
Coleraine group of mines, 36
Coleraine mines of Dr. Reed, 41
Cost of extraction, 36, 40
Coste, Eugène, report of, 52
Crocidolite, 9, 10
Curtains in theatres, 62
Danville, mine at, 46
Deck cabins of steamships, 68
Discolouration, 27, 33, 37 removable, 38
Ells (Mr.), report of, 12, 31, 41, 50
Exeter Theatre, fire at, 63
Exhibition, American, 9
Extraction, cost of, 36, 40
Faults in veins, 47
Filters, 67, 73
Firemen's clothing, 16, 66
Fires at theatres, 62
Fireproof boxes, 58 curtains, 62
Frechette-Douville mine, 39
French-Canadian labour, 53
Genoa, floating chapel at, 68
Geology of Canada, 7, 9, 26, 48
Gold at South Ham, 49
Heath, Captain, experiments of, 61
Immature asbestos, 32
Impurity of rock, 27
Ink, asbestos, 68
Italian asbestos, 15 paper on, 19
Italy, experiments in, 15
Italian asbestos, three kinds of, 21
Iron-mining in Russia, 13
Irving's safety theatre, 63
Johnson Company's mine, 30
Journal of Society of Arts, 19
Kennedy's discovery at Coleraine, 42
King's mine, 32
Limestone at Templeton, 29
Lint, 61
Magnetite, 33
Mailbags, 67
Main sources of supply, 24
Marketable value, how determined, 28
Martin mine, 38
Merchants' and bankers' books, 68
Military ballooning, 58
Mineral wool, 11
Miner's lamps, 56
Mining in Canada, 24 profitable nature of, 31, 51
Packing, 52
Paint, 69
Paper, 67, 68
Peculiarity at Thetford, 33
Pélé's hair, 11
Pierre-à-coton, 7
Places where used, 18
Profitable nature of asbestos-mining in Canada, 31, 51
Printing papers, 68
Pulp and paper, 69
Purification of foul gas, 74 4
Reed & Hay properties, 40
Reed's (Dr.), mine, 40
Registers and records, 68
Relative merits of Canadian and Italian asbestos, 17
Rope, 72
Russia, asbestos found in, 13, 14 iron-mining in, 13
Scottish Asbestos Company, 36, 38, 44
Serpentine, 12, 24, 41 often impure, 27 ornamental, 29
Shipton mine, 46
Singular statement, 20
Slag wool, 11
Soapstone (steatite), 46, 49 enormous quantity of, at South Ham, 49
South Ham, mines at, 47
Steam-power, 34
Steam-pipe coverings, 70
Stove pipings, 72
Theatres, fires in, 62
Thetford group of mines, 29 district rich in minerals, 36
Time fuzes, 67
Tunnelling impracticable in Canada, 21
Underwriters, offer of, 62
United Asbestos Company of London, 16, 60
Ural region, large quantities found in, 14
Wages at Canadian mines, 53
Wall papers, 68
Want of foresight in mining for asbestos, 35
Ward's mine, 31
Whitehead torpedoes, 56
Willimott (Mr.), report of, 26
Wolfestown mines, 50
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Transcriber's Note
Some inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document has been preserved.
Typographical errors corrected in the text:
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Page 50 Balmina changed to Belmina
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