The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-20
TRANSITION COAL.

TUNHIS RARE AND VALUABLE GOALS va
Il riety not quite changed into an anthracite.
and it has only been discovered lin large quaint
ties) at three places upon globe. viz at South
Wales, Great Britain; at Donetz, in Russia, near
the Black Sea; and at Dauphin and Lebanon conn-
ties, Pennsylvania. In the London market this
coal commands the ishest price. 1t ia now mined
upon the large estate $4,000 acres) OF the Dau'
phin and Sus4uehapna Coal Company, situated In
Pennsylvania, and it 10 nearer to the cities OF Bal
timore and Washington than the coal Of any other
region. For easy ignition, durability OF fire, COM
plete combustion, easy adaptation to the temper
allure of the weather, and its great power in gene
rating heat, 1t is the BEST coal in the toorid II has
the inflammability of the bituminous coal, with
the cleanliness of the anthracite and a greater
durability than either. 1t burns without making
any SCOT or visible smoke, and the combustion ia
80 complete that it retains the fire until all the coal
IS consumed Not so with the anthracites, espe-
cialy the hard and heavy kinds. They do not
burn up, and hence the common troublesome prac-
tice OF sitting their ashes to obtain more fuel. In
burning the Transition Coal there is ,caste. for
the small Goals made by handling burn as well as
ordinary COAL All should be burnt together. II
screened at all, the dust only should be taken out
A very erroneous impression exists with many
persons that the heaviest Goals are the most econo
mical for ordinary purposes This might be the
case if Goals were sold by measurement, but never
able work. Statistics Of Coa,) the details given
to chow that 81 pounds of free burning red ash
yielded more heat to a room in fifteen hours than
81 pounds OF heavy white ash coal making the
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white ash at 81 81 per ton. Any person accus-
toned to these heavy Goals will be astonlsh-
ed at the saving which can be made in burning the
lighter kinds when tested by the tceight ana Purnt
in suitable manner.
An apprehension exists with some that the free
burning Goals have tendency to clInker. NOW,
general rule, no coal wiz cinker unless
greater draught be applied toit than the coal natu
rally requires. No one would think OF applying
bellows constantly to a fire made Of seasoned
hickory or oak wood, and 1t would be equally as
f. h,,r
ing coal. But the heavy white ash anthracites
cannot be burnt without powerful draught, and
without using larger quantity OF coal than the
| temperature Of the weather sometimes requires
Various patterns Of stoves, furnaces, cooking
rapgee Sc, are invented annually to conquer this
difficulty, but it has never been done with complete
| success. In every contrVance, however, whlch
has been invented to burn coal, the transition va
rety will make n bea uiful fire, and complaint
will ever be made to a manufacturer or seller CT
CRATES or stoves when this coal is used. Inc
draught alone is to be regulated by damper. IL
intr reducing this new coal for the first tlme pre-
pared as it now is by steam power machinery for
domestic use, it may give greater confidence TO the
buyer to say that the celebrated free burning red
ash veins in the Peach Orchard district near Potts
vile, are a continuation of the Dauphi" veins, and
they approach the nearest in value to the Transition
Coal.
Shipments of the Transition coal have already
been made to the District of Columbia, aud II
can be obtained at retail from the following
persons .
VIM. T. Dove, Washington.
F. Magruder, do
VIM. Warder, do
Woodford Stone, do
Hunsbergcr s. Co., do
Myers & Baker, Georgetown.
Orders for this coal by the cargo as we'll asicr
the Semi Btuminous and Anthracite Goals, mined
by the Dauphn and Susquehanna Coal Company,
will be promptly executed by
ADAMS FOSTER, Agent,
Office southwest corner Bait. and South ste.
BALTIMORE, September Is, 1852.
Sept 21-lmif