Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-09
GO AND REGISTER.
COAL.
Valuable Information Relative to b
Trade in Zeal with Pfttsburg,
East Tennessee, and, Ulti-
masely, Alabama.

we make room Tor the following Win
pleasure, and are glad that the paragraph
complsined of by MI. Packer appeared in
the APPEAL, for it has secured for our
resders sn amount Of light upon the coal
question that few beside him in Memphis
could give:
Editors ApDeal-Who wrote that squib
about the high price of coal2 If il can 9
from an outsider, Of course It was done In
the interest Of humanity, and without ex-
pectation Of reward; but If it dropped
from h fecil9 pen Of IA on the editorial
staff of the APPEAL, said APPsAL should
vote him a bone button. If ne will come
to me, l will give him 2 whole and entire
barrel OF the celebrated Coal creek coal
which comes from about several miles be-
yoDd ChattRnoogG-2s a reward for smart.
ness.
He says Consumers complsin of the
extraordinary high price Of coal" just
ten years ago, when the tipping time CT
peace" had just about gssped its last, coal
rose 70 a dollar snd upwards, and from
that day to this Il has never been less at
this Tina Of year, but generally more,
Extraordinary, isn't it?
"Why cannot a milli3h bushels come
here st once2" At oaB, is good. One
million bushels can be Ikoved IL one hum
dred days by enc hundk led men-weighs
forty thousand tons-Nould load i've
Thousand cars and make a train about
forty-fve miles long. That train could
hardly all get in, at once, without some OF
those dspots We read about.
"Could not the Chattanooga people send
coal here at fifty cents per barrel as well as
they do TO Nsshville2" Why don't Lon
don send coal TO Newcastle, or, Memphis
to Pittsburgh That is the question.
Here is a question based on an implied
assertion having no facts to sustain it. The
question might DO answered thu "Sim-
ply because Chattanooga has no coal to
send" And if che had, the distance TO
Memphis being three hundred and ten
miles, andto Nashville one hundred and
fifty or theresbouts, Transportation would
cost more, of course.
Now, Mr. Editor, q few J1cts in this
connection, In regard to this East Ten
nessee coal supply may be read with pa
~tience, If not with pleasure, by your
numerous city readers.
Until recently Chattanooga has drawn
her principal supply frouf The E.na
mines; which mine delivers It's coal to
the Memphis and Charleston railroad
Nashville and Chattanooga at White
side, q few miles. only, this side of Chat
tanoogs. Since, however, the "rennes-
see Coal and Railroad Company" has been
reorgsnizsd and gotten into good working
order, and the "Cosl Creek mines"-from
twenty. eight to thirty-eignt miles beyond
Knoxville on the Knoxville and Ken
lucky ~railrosd-have been opened, these
latter have almost run "Rtns" out ofthat
market.
The Tennessee Coal and Railroad com.
pany operate the SeWsnee mines Sc Tracy
City, whence, by twenty-three miles Of
private roadway, they denver their coal at
Cowan, on the Nashville and Chattanooga
railroad, twenty-five miles from Stephen
son, eighty-seven miles from Nash
vile and sixtY-three from Chattanooga.
This company, with one hundred and
twenty-five conglcts, and some seventy
i've white employees, two powerful loco
motives, n hundred coal cars, and the
use Of cars from half g dozsn other rail-
roads, succeeds in mining and shipping
ten Thousand bushels daily. How
is that for e million bushels at once?
Most of this coal goes TO Nashville and
points north, she actual cost laid down
Nashville being about So so
per ton (thirtY-fve cents per barely
The large rolling-mills at Chattanooga
and most OF the manufacturing concerns,
also, are now using the SeWanse coal,
while "Cosl Creek " ia the fayorite for
domestic purposes. Now the freight on
coal to Memphis is Just two del
lars and sixty cents per ton more than to
Nashville; so 1t is offered here at sixty
cents per barrel at the Memphis and
depot by the carload. But
Memphis prefers something dearer-bought
and turther-brought, even, if no better,
and so must have {" PittsbHr9 +" or " Goal
Coal Creek, as before stated, is on tho
and Kentucky railroad; must
come over this road; then the East Ten
1essee road; then the Nashville and Chat
5snooga road; then the Memphis and
Charleston road; whole distance, four
hundred and seventy miles, or there
freight per carload, fifty eight
and ninety-fve cents. These two
sources Of supply constitute the only
,hance Memphis has to get coal from
East Tennessee at present; and this x
Dense cannot be reduced for this winter.
Arrangements are already perfected, l
by which the Memphis and
Charleston railroad viii, next year, effect
m independent connection with the
Tracy City road, which viii reduce the
lost of SeWanee coal about one dollar per
on here. Again-the Nashville and De-
road has been leased by the Louis
lille and Nashville company, and is being
extended south from Decatur, and will,
lext year, reach the great Alabama coal.
ield. Then sir, when proper appliances,
a the way of CARS, etc, are put upon the
Dad, It is my private opinion that Pitts
)urg will have to take 3 back seat. That
shall see coal-shutes down the bluffs
or coalinR steamers, within four or five
ears, is highly probable. This much,
hough 1 am somewhat interested in the
OF the trade in P~ittsburg
oal.
If this paper does not bean down too
cavity on your squibbist, and you con-
ider It of sufficient public interest, you
an print it over the name Of your obedi-
Mt servant, 81. B. PACKER.
Both the Goals spoken Of In the above
0E~nmunicution can be bought, fresh from
mines, at my yard 1914 second street.
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