The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-01-11
1F EVANSVILLE.
Home Products---Evansville Coal.

Home Products---Evansville Coal.
The Bodiam Mine has already given strong
evidence that it will hereafter prove of incalu- 1
liable value to the city of Evansville By &
some who have used its coal in their houses,
it is preferred to any other coal ever brought
to this market. In some respects, especially /
in keeping fire through the night and in con-
venience for re-kindling when a fire is burnt
Camel Coal it makes the brightest and most
cheerful fire of any coal ever used in this city,,
and it throws out greater heat for the same
amount Of coal than any other By stirring it |
up frequently, il may be burned away very
fast, but it requires but little stirring to burn
well, and without stirring at all viii retain
fire longer than Pittsburgh coal or any other
ever used here. There is no trouble with this
coal in keeping fire in crate through long
winter night, without renewal, and then by
putting on little fresh coal and stirring the
embers, without any other material by way of
kindling, producing a bright blazing fire at
once. This coal also has the advantage over
most others in burning to ashes, and leaving
scarcely any c.nder. In this respect, it is supe-
+ rior to almost all the upper Ohio river Goals,
including the Pittsburgh coal.
3 As a steam coal, it is destined to be ofeven
more value to this city than as a CRATE or
house coal. 1t has been pronounced both by
those interested against it and for it, to be the
hottest coal on the lower Ohio, and the only
objection which has ever been raised by those
who have tried it is, that it gives the fremen
more labor IN preventing its burning the CRATES
under steam boilers. There is no doubt that
properly managed this coal will produce more
steam than any other lower Ohio River coal
1t is only necessary to look at and handle for
moment, the Bodiam Mine coal, to discoye
that it is the most hard, compact, heavy
crystalline coal, of any brought to this market
1t has already been subjected to months expo
sure to the atmosphere during the heat AM
rains of summer, as well as the frosts of win
ter, and it is satisfactorily ascertained that
would "stand the weather"
Indeed, the depth at which it is dug, &c
feet below the surface, is good guaranty fc
its solidiy. The largest manu- actures in Evans
vile, who have used it for weeks for maxim
steam, pronounce it an excellent steam COZ
and just the article needed to make EYansyill
great manufacturing city.
Mr.. Kerstsrman has sustained great loss
time and money by the burning of the engir
house and machinery last fall, and in having
wait the arrival of his fat rope from ENGLAND
replace that article burned with the rest; the
being none of it manufactured in this countr
And just as he was getting ready to do veI
fine business, the obstruction to navigation /
the floating ice, and the intense frost, almo.
suspended his operations.
He is now taking out near 1000 bushels p
day, and as soon as an Abatement ofthe fro
- shall iiberate the slides on one half the sha
he will take out from 1900 to 2O00 bushe
daily. A number of carts are employed
hauling the coal from the mine, and distribu
ing it to the customers, and viii continue
run between the city and mines until che mar
CATION ofthe river shall be resumed, when N
Kersterman's boats will deliver it at the CT
wharf lie confidently anticipates that aco
slant supply for all purposes of home co
sumption can hereafter be furnished to
- customers Of the Bodiam Mines, and that t
growing steamboat demand for the article c
be fully metsin the bargain.
1t is no trifing consideration in the purcha
of this coal that every cent paid for it is Ike
and spent at home, because it is one Of o
few articles excepting in agriculture of hol
production, whilst the greater part of t
money laid out for coal coming from 9th
placesis carried away, and this communi
= sees it no more.
- Evansville Library Association.