Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-01-11
For The Chronicle.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

MEssRs. EDiroRs:--I desire to call yonr
attention, and the attention of our worthy
Board of Mayor and Aldermen, to a matter
of much interest and Importance to the
citizens Of our town. 'G0- f-r 81 Iit
1t is the irregular and unsatisfactory
measure of fuel, by the dealers in coal and
wood, which the present biting frosts remind
us very forcibly, is alike necessary to both
rich and poor. s' -e|a b.
In the remarks I propose to make, | do not
wish to be understood as rejecting in any
way upon the sellers of fuel. They are wor-
thy and excellent gentlemen, and have no
doubt will join heartily in any arrangement
to make these measures of fuel, beyond
doubt, entirely satisfactory to their custom
ers.
A bushel Of Coal Us rated and counted by
the Inspectors of Pittsburg, Cincinnati and
Louisville, and the Cumberland Coal dealers,
is 1858 cubic inches. All the coal delivered
at this place and other points, is purchased
and paid for on this measure. Now all we
desire, as purchasers of this coal, that is
brought here and sold to the dealers at 1888
cubic inches TO the bushel, is, that they will
in measuring it out to their customers, give
the same for bu'hel that they get.
This coal as measured to the dealers in q
barge OF, say, ten thousand bushels, at 26ss
cubic inches to the bushel, will, when meas
ured ont in boxes correctly measured, 1858
cubic inches TO the bushel,) gain, in every
barge, not less than one thousand bushels
This is on account of the large bulk in the
barge, it becomes very compact. When
shoveled up and thrown into boxes, loosely
as the dealer measures it to his customers, il
is not near so compact as il is in the barge
when measured to him.
In this way, know from experience, hav.
purchased and uuloaded many barges, tn,
dealer gains at least, one thousand, out o.
every ten thousand bushel barge
{ After this gain, ask, is il correct is il JUS
that the dealer should be permitted to de.
liver 10 his customer load OF coal which
he sends n, rs bushels, but which upor
proper measurement---the measurement up
on which be buys himself is not really more
than eighteen or twenty bushels.
You win find upon examination thatth bed
of the two horse wagons in whichcoal is gen
orally delivered, are ia inches long, A.
inches wide, and IA inches deep. This be,
at 26ss cubic inches to the bushel, win holC
a fraction less than twenty-five bushels, leve
, for twenty-five bushels, did you ever se'
| full not one Ihaye ever purchased yetseeI
SO. Put Eve TO seven bushels In any one o
them, after II is brought to your house 70
twenty i've bushels, and will guarantee, i
Is no, more than level full then. This Is
measurement that any one can make TAX
the length of the wagon bed in inches--it
width In inches then level the coal in th,
bed, SO as to be the same depth all ever
measure its depth 10 inches-multiply thu
length of the bed in inches by its breadth
in inches-this product by the depth of the
coal In inches. This will give you the solid
or cubic inches in the pile Of coal. Divide
this SUN by 1858 inches. and will have Ii,
number Of bushels In the lot
Try it ON any OF these twenty-five bushe'