American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-08-25
SO SO S3 81

By this il W i'll be seen that the average of the
coal to the foreign importer in our market will
be about So 81 per ton. BY reference to the
report of the committee appointed by the Iron
and Coal Association of Pennsy lvanla, eve are
advised that the Nova Scotia and New Bruins
wick coal fields, unlike ours, are accessible by
water, and the coal Of which may be transport
ted at a small cost to every part Of our atlantic
coast. Our coal fields although unsurpassed in
richness and extent, are in the interior of the
country; and although capital and enterprise
have furnished us, as we have said, every faci-
lily Of transportation to bring these vast and
inexhaustble resources to our atlantic border,
yet the transportation alone is equal to the cost
of ,Noua Scotia coal, 81 so per ton, delivered into
the veSStl to which, if the duties of thirty
per cent be added, we have ST 95 as the cost"
We are further informed by the gentleman
from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Ramsay,) who repre-
SCENTS section of this State that is deeply inte-
rested in the coal trade, and who has doubtless
furnished himself with much valuable nforma-
ton on this ssbject, that in Nova Scotia coal
is found IN four independent coal fields, viz:
LIST The Pictou, one hundred square miles,
eighteen veins, the first thlrty-sevea feet thick
I'd. Cumberland eight veins. Sd. Sydney,
one hundred and twenty square miles, fourteen
veins, none under three feet, and most eleven
feet thick; Spanish river, fifteen veins, four
workable, six feet veins. 4th Albion vein of
coal, fifty feet thick. The Albion mines are
accessible by water, have one of the best har-
bors in the world, and are not surpassed either
in the facity of entrance, good anchorage, or
general safety, by Halifax
"The passage from these mines TO Boston is
made IN from three to six days, and to New
York from four to eight days. freight is seldom
more from there than it is from Phiadep hia
TO either Of these ports, and the coal can be put
on board vessels for S so per ton, or from 81
so to 50 less than it can be put on board at
Philadelphia; and the freight thence to either
Boston or New York varies from 81 so to So 90
per ton"
"Tho coal of my district is far in the interior,
and air ady many of my constituents, with n
laudable spirit and enterprise, have provided
facilities for its transportation to the atlantic
market; and the lowest estimate | have ever
known made, at hich the coal can be sold in
New York, averages 81 81 to IS ton. This
calculation is based on tho anticipated cost of
transportation by the Chesa peake and Ohio Ca
NAL which is yet unfinished This may be a
low estimator; certainly the cost of transForta-
ton may be higher, and cannot be less. But
five adopt the cost of transportation and other
items OF eSpei!So ny VIC ndtlUHOte anu ONO
Railroad, we will find that the coal taken by
that route largely exceeds that estimated 10y
the canal. have obtained from a gentleman
who has been furnishing coal to purchasers in
New York, statement of its cost delivered in
that place, which is as follows:
The coal in the mine is WORTH per ton % cents
Mining and loading car ~ "
Freight TO Cumberland ~
Freight from Cumberland TO Baltimore 81 %
~, KtaItO ire n
er Apenses in B.ltihore 80 cents
Freisnt rom Baltimore 10 New York 81 rs
Sc ~
Thus proving the price which the coal dealer
of nv district must obtain in the market, or
otherwise all Efforts to make the business profit
able will prove frutIess."
Living in tie immediate vicinity of the coal
region Of Maryland, ard having every oppor-