The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-02
The Coal Trade Ter 1853.
From the Miners Journal

The quantity sent by railro id this weeS is
H3l2 c3 tons, an increase OF about 1000 tons over
the supply Of last week.
The usual machinery for depressing prices has
been put in operation by the middlemen at Phila.
delphia and doleful tales are told of the great sup
ply OF coal in market. But 1t won't dc; our opera
tors are not quite soft some to take them
to be and ne soon as those who have been victim
ICED get fairly clear Of their clutches they will End
it out. We repeat that every ton Of coal that can
be mined this year will be required by the market;
and We ain caution dealers not to sell moro
than they can deliver in week or two at a time.
II the middeDen choose to sell ahead at low rates,
they must take the consequences. There is legal
power here that can and will secure fair paying
prices to the operators, miners, and laberers
engaged in the trade THE year and that power
will be exercised, il necessary, in self preservation
We ask nothing but fair, remuneratng-pot high
prices and circumstances have placed 1t in our
to Ct mand and obtain those prices this year.
We hope, therefore, that purchasers abroad will
come forward carly in the season, and prevent
those hoctua,ions which, under other circnmstau-
ces, Get take place. and which are go destructive
to the best interests Of regular business; While at
the same time, it will give the produ ers the ability
TO supply the market this year, which is rather
peculiar year in tho history Of the coal trade. The
truth is, We are in about the same position
now, that the western country was before the pro-
tective policy wes enacted, when stacks of altered
grain absolutely rotted for the want Of q market,
So great was tho lethargy caused by stagnation
that in the same places two years afterwards, there
was net sufficient seed planted to supply their own
The prices CD board, a. Richmond, which we
named last week, could not be sustainedtwo Of the
firms Of middleMen refused to 60 operate with the
other portion Of the trade-S3 SO for red ash was
then agreed upon, and So 50 and So 30 for white
ash. One Of the firms Of middlemen Immediately
offered to sell red ash at So 62a. fthcy persist Ia
this disrepuabe ,ourse, hope that the trade be-
low, engaged in mining here, will unite with our
operators, and teach them lesson that will not
soon be forgotten.
Fer several days past ws have had a touch Of
spring weather; the saow and ice have almost on
tirely disappeared from mountains and streams,
and the canal will be ready to paas boats as far as
Manayunk on Monday or Tuesday next, uoless We
have change Of weather. The company are en-
gagged in putting in two guard locks at Msnayunk
which will prevent any boats passing that point be.
fore the 9th or Sth ofMarch. We hsve also been
beeninforned that the Delaware and Ra.isen canal
will not be ready before tic 10th Of March lfsuch
lie the case coal cannot reach New York direct by
canal, much before the Grst Of April.
Therates Of toll, By canal, were not promulgated
up to our going to press Frcights TO New York, L.
Is supposed, wil open By canal at 81 60. The boa.
men, We think, win find it TO their interest to open
ct this rate in the spring, and advance it abouttho
Grst OF August, when the trade will bear an ad-
vance This will secure regularity IN tho trade,
which is important to all concerned.