. mining and engineering journal . ne who has studied the •two systems must recognise the greater facility and sim-plicity of cakndations with the metric sjstem, and the timeis not far distant when the metric system will be adopteduniversally throughout the whole world. A list of thecountries which had adopted the metric weight and measuresin 1915 as the sole standard, is given below, and thesecountries have a total population of 477 millions:—Argen-tine, Austria, Belgimii, Belgian Congo, Brazil, Bulgaria,Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Finland,France (and Colonies), Germany (
. mining and engineering journal . ne who has studied the •two systems must recognise the greater facility and sim-plicity of cakndations with the metric sjstem, and the timeis not far distant when the metric system will be adopteduniversally throughout the whole world. A list of thecountries which had adopted the metric weight and measuresin 1915 as the sole standard, is given below, and thesecountries have a total population of 477 millions:—Argen-tine, Austria, Belgimii, Belgian Congo, Brazil, Bulgaria,Chili, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Finland,France (and Colonies), Germany (and Colonies), Guatemala,Holland (and Colonics), Honduras, Hungary, Italy (andColonies), Luxemburg, Malta, ^lauritius, Mexico, Nicara-gua, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Porto Rico, Portugal (andColonies), Roumania, Salvador, Servia, Seychelles, Siam(introduftion of metric system decided and in progress, butnot jet complete), Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, ITruguav, l)() TIIH Sonil MlilCAN MININC .KHIlWI, .lol iiiiiiHKlim^;, \|i il I llu liunds of the GcrmnnR or not? Your people uro excellentpeople to deal witli, lie cmitiinud, bi^l it iiKoKidlicr liiatKine why nn intfllif^fnt ^jo iihond nire still lloiinderH iiloiif^doing liiiHincss in an antii|natcd fashion. I rifer to the factthat tiie South Anu-ricaii l{ii)ul)h(H all use the irn-triesystem, while BritiHh trad, is witii few cxcei)tionH not onlynegleet to nse it, but only too often waste time and moneyby Bending out catalogues to tin- South American murkets,in which tons and pounds, and yards and incdies figure to thebeu ildcrniciit of tin; i)uy(? fdutiiiucd.) GEDULD : CONSULTING ENGINEERS REPORT. Mr. Anilerson, consulting engineer to the GeduldiVoprietary .Minos, Ltd., in his annual report for 191(:—The reduction plant ran satisfactorily at consider-ably above the capacity for whicli it was designed, and thetonnage milled was increased by 19,510 tons to 822,9H() tonsfor the year. The yield, cost, and profit
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