The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-11-08
and the Bodiam Mines
Their Great Value not yet all un-

Their Great Value not yet all un-
derstood.
To THE EDITOR OF THE EVANSVILLE Jour-
NAL: There are only a few, as yet, who seem
to known that after using the Evansville
coal for years in their houses, their furniture,
curtains, wallpaper, &c, are as free from
SCOT and black stains, from coal smoke, as if
they had been burning wood whilst if they
had used the same amount of Pittsburg or
almost any other bituminous COAL it would
have left its mark unpleasantly and unmis-
takably on every thing.
In this respect the Bodiam coal has the
advantage of not only Pittsburg and other
up river coal, but almost all other mines yet
opened in Indiana.
Have you ever contrasted the clean city
of Philadelphia, inside and out, where mil
lions of bushels of anthracite coal are burnt
annually, with the dingy cities of Cinncin-
natl and Louisville and the very sooty city
of Pittsburg ; in all these, if put together,
there is not half the coal burnt, but that
coal is bituminuous, and chiefly known as
the "Pittsburg COAL" This Evansville coal
leaves in a room where used the same
light eolored dirt or ash that is left by the
anthracite, but that dust or ash leaves no
stain or SCOT behind it, and after years of
the use of this coal your furniture and
walls show no credence of injury from scot
or coal smoke. Not so with the Pittsburg
coal or most other bitumnuous Goals of the
country, and of our own State. Because of the
great advantage of the Evansville coal in
this same respest of cleanliness, there are
families who have tested the difference, who
will now tell you that it is cheaper in the
end to burn Evansville coal in your CRATES
at the moderate price they have to pay for
it, than to use the Pittsburg coal as free
gift. 1t is true that the Evansville coal
leaves more ashes than the other, but ashes
are not SCOT and only have to be carried out,
and if they fall on any object they are as
harmless as wood ashes, and it is by reason
of this greater quantity of ashes that there
is no difficulty experienced in keeping coal
fire of Evansville coal from one end of the
season to the other without its ever going
out, by merely putting on small coal at night
and covering it up with ashes. 1t is very
common to hear those who have used this
coal the second or third year remark that it
is better now than it VS. at first, or than it
was last year. This remark is merely the re-
suit of their understanding it better
The value of this as steam coal, is
thoroughly established by constant use fer
or years in numerous mills and other
manufacturing establishments, and several
gentlemen thoroughly acquainted with roll
ing mills, and engaged in them, have pro-
nounced it good coal for that use, and Ev-
ansyille, by. reason of the abundance of this
coal, is the best point in the West for a roll
ing mill, and it is now generally conceded
that this coal, every where under ones feet,
and mined right at our door, added to our
other advantages for food materials and mar
kets, gives Evansville an advantage over all
the cities of the Southwest as a great manu-
featuring emporium, which, ere many years,
| it is destined to be.
In our approaching, nay, present growing
prosperity, let us profit, by proper means,
By our own home product of coal, not for
getting to award due need of gratitude
and praise to William Kersteman, whose
sagacity discovered it, and whose indomit-
able perseverance, in the face of every dis
enlargement, has brought it from the dark
ness of the mine to the light of the freside.
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