Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-25
HIRCULAR NO. 1.-The PHILADELPHIA
~ AND READING COAL AND IRON CO.

FRANKLIN b. GOwEN, President,
227 South Fourth St., Philadelphia.
DAVID PALMER, Treasurer,
227 South Fourth ST., Philadelphia.
EDWARD A. QUINTARD, General Sales Agent,
9, Pine ST., New York.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company desire to call the attention of Retailers,
Manufacturers, and Consumers to the Goals from
the following colleries now worked by them:
PINE FOREST, PRESTON, No. .,
PINE KNOT, FAST FRANKLIN,
ELLANGOWAN, POTTS,
PRESTON, No. l. BEECHwooD,
LIVE OAK, FoREsTvILLE,
PHOENIX PARK, No. ., BOSTON RUN,
RAINBOW, PRESTON, No4
MERRIAM, BUCKVILLE,
INDIAN RIDGE, CEDAR HILL,
NINE HILL GAP, N0RTHFRANKLINNo MOL
OTTO, NORTH FRANKLIN o.2
kNICkERBOCKER,
In addition to the product of the above they will
SELL as factors during the season Of 1875 all Of the
Goals from the following well known collieries that
are either shipped from Port Richmond or consgu.
ed through tine Delaware and Raritan Canal;
TUNNEL RIDGE, BIG MINE RUN,
VIM. PENN, ENTERPRISE,
GIRARDvILLE, BIG MOUNTAIN,
UNION. BROOKSIDE,
MANCHESTER, BEAR RUN,
B Istals RlDfGE, FLANK RiDaE,,
ST. SicHoiAs. GIRARD,
TURKEY RUN, GREENBACk,
McMICHAEL. BEAR VALLEY.
No Mirfure ofMe DTerenf Grades of Coal 'oaV ia
any case be permitted, and each Of the several
classes of coal produced at the above-named col.
lieries Will be kept strictly separate from the 9TH
ers All sales will be made under the following
designations:
/. Hard White Ash Coal.
3. schuylkilI Red Ash Coal.
4. Alaska Red Ash Coal.
3. Shamokin White Ash Coal.
d. ShamOkin Red AL CoaI
Z. North Franklin Coal.
5. LOrberry Coal.
D. Lykens Valley Vein Coal.
In order that all coal shall be shipped in good
der, most rigid system of inspection both at the
be enforced. In every district Of the coal region
there will be appointed number of competent per-
sons skilled in the preparation Of coal as local in
colieries daily to see that proper force is at all
| times employed in removing slate, and to prevent
If possible, any coal being sent from the mines in
bad order. In addition these efforts at proven.
ton, no means will be left untred at the shipping
ports cure the evils Of careless preparation Al
Schuylkill, Haven, Port Clinton, and Port Rich.
mond, all coal will be subjected to the personal
animation Of skilled inspector before it is ship
ped, and ii condemned by him, will be dumped in
places provided for the purpose, and before being
loaded into vessels will be thoroughly repcked and
coliery that produced In entering into business
as coal merchants controlling production greater
than that of any other seller and embracing more
than twothrds of the coal to be shipped from Port
| Richmond the Company are fully alive to the great
Importance OF careful preparation, and will spare
| no expense to secure for their Goals reputation
\ second to none in the country.
| The Company's ownership of ninety thousand
of coal land in the first and second coal fields
the proximity of those regions to Underwater al
Phiadelphia-the advantages of the descending
grades OF the roads of the Philadelphia and Read
| ing Railroad Company, and of the fleet of steam
golfers being established by the latter Company,
render it certain that the Philadelphia and Reading
| Coal and Iron Company will always supply large
proportion OF the coal consumed upon the Atlantic
coast In addition to these geographical and local
| advantages the fact that they the only one Of
| the large mining companies whose lands produce
| all the known varieties of Anthracite Coal from
the largest white ash to the softer Goals of the
Shamokin and Lorberry regions, SO much in de.
mand for domestic purposes, gives them an add
tonal claim upon the favorable consideration Of
the coalpurchasing community.
| The anthracite coal trade of this country will
hereafter be controlled and prices established by
those who actually represent the ownership of tho
coal Itself, and the ruinous suspensions of mining
| and fluctuations of prices will be avoided. 1t will
be the great aim of the Company to induce q feel
ing of confidence en- the part of their customers SO
| that retailers and manufacturers may take advan-
tage of their capital to lay in a supply Of coal
whenever it is most convenient for them to do So
without any apprehension that the value of their
stock will be impaired by any subsequent action Of
the Company.
| ON or about the 10th Of each month throughout
the season, circulars will be issued from the Gen.
eral Office of the Company in Philadelphia, estab.
fishing prices for the succeeding month; and or.
ders may be sent either to the Treasurer Of the
| Company, in Philadelphia, or to the General Sales
| Agent, in New York. Propositions may be made
to the Company at any time before the first day Of
April 1873, for the purchase Of stated quantity Of
current circular prices throughout the season; and
| If any such proposition is accepted by the Com.
pany, the purchaser may, on or before the FIRST day
of any month, have the privilege of declining to
take the proportion due in such month, but such
decnaton shall not give to him the right to take,
in any any succeeding month, any increased quantity
FRANKLIN B. GOWEN, President.
Philadelphia, Feb. 5, 1873. MARI tl2t