Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-27


No. 9, Pine St., New York.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Ire
Company desire to call the attention of Retailer
Manufacturers, and Consumers 10 the Goals fro
the following colleries now worked by them:
PINE FOREST, PRESTON, No, e.
| TUNNEL, WABASH,
KEYSTONE, LOCUST SPRING,
PINE KNOT EAST FRANKLIN,
IGLENDOWER, BAST
ELLANGOWAN, POTTS,
PRESTON, No. ], BEECHWOOD
| SHAFT, No. l, THOMASTON,
LIVE OAK, FORESTVILLE
PHGNIx PARK, No. :, BOSTON RUN,
RAINBOW, PRESTON, No f.
MERRIAM, BUCKVILLE,
INDIAN RIDGE, CEDAR HILL,
| NINE HILL GAP, NORTH FRANKLIN No
KN1CKERBoCKER, -'-A'AA' ~ NJ
In addition to the product of the above, they W
SELL as factors during the of 1873 all Of Il
Goals from the following well-known collieries tn
| are either shipped from Port Richmond or consig
| ed through the Delaware and Raritan Canal: :
| TUNNEL RIDGE, BIG NINE Run,
LAWRENCE, GLENTWORTH,
WIN. PENN, ENTERPRISE,
GIRARDVILLE, BIG MOUNTAIN,
UNION. BROOKSIDE,
MANCHESTER, BEAR RUN,
ALASKA, SHENANDOAH,
| BUCK RIDGE, PLANK RIDGE,
Burnside, HAMMOND,
| ST. NICHOLAS, GIRARD,
TURKEY RUN, GREESBACk.
MCMICHAEL, BEAR VALLEY.
| No Nurture ofthe Different Grades Of Coal ,ei7
any case be permitted, and each Of the sever
classes of coal produced at the aboye-named CO
lieres will be kept strictly separate from the OF
| ers. All sales viii be made under the foll0wi1
I. Hard White Ash Coal.
.. Free-Burning White Ash Coal.
3. schuylkill Red Ash Coal.
4. Alaska Red Ash Coal.
3. Shamokin White Ash Coal.
Q. shamokin Red Ash Coal.
I. North Franklin Coal.
y. LOrberry Coal.
D. Lykens Valley Vein Coal.
In order that all coal shall be shipped in good o
der most rigid system of inspection, both at Il
mines and 81 the shipping ports win at all tim.
| there will be appointed number of competent pc
sons skilled in the preparation of coal, as local il
collleres daily to see that a proper force is at
| times employed In removing slate, and to proven
| if possible any coal being sent from the mines
ton, means will be left untried at the shppir
ports to cure the evils of careless preparation
schuylkiil. Haven, Port Clinton, and Port Ric
animation of a skilled inspector before it is shi
1 ped, and if condemned by him, will be dumped
/ places provided for the purpose and before beiu
cleaned by hand. at the cost of the owner Of Ii
colliery that producedit. In entering into busne,
as coal merchants, controlling production great,
| than that of any other seller, and embracing MOI
than two-thirds of the coal to be shipped from Pc
Richmond, the Company are fully alive to the gre
Importance Of careful preparation, and will spa!
no expense to secure for their Goals q reputato
second to none in the country.
The Company's ownership of ninety thousaY
acres of coal land in the first and second coal
the proximity OF those regions to tide-water
Philadelphia-the advantages of the descendil
grades OF the roads Of the Philadelphia and kea
ing Railroad Company, and of the feet of stes
render it certain that the Philadelphia and Readit
Coal and Iron Company will always supply a larj
proportion of the coal consumed upon the Atlanl'
In nd IN fhna ami na nd loo.
advantages, the fact that they are the only one
the large mining companies whose lands produ6
all the known varieties of Anthracite Coal, froI
the largest white ash to the softer Goals Of II
Shamokn and Lorberry regions, SO much in d
mand for domestic purposes, gives them an ado
tional claim upon the favorable consideration
the coalpurchasing community.
The anthracite coal trade of this country W
hereafter be controlled and prices established Y
coal itself, and the ruinous suspensions Of minin
and fluctuations of prices will be avoided. IL WI
ing of confidence en- the part of their customers,
that retailers and manufacturers may take adva
tage Of their capital to lay in q supply of Coz
whenever it is most convenient for them to do =
without any apprehension that the value of the
stock Will be impaired by any subsequent action !
the Company.
the season, circulars will be issued from the Geu
eral Office Of the Company in PHILADELPHIA estas
fishing prices for the succeeding month; and q
ders may be sent either to the Treasurer of IL
Company, In Philadelphia, or to the General Sal
Agent, in New York. Propositions may be mac.
to the Company at any time before the first day
April, 1873, for the purchase of a stated quantity
coal, to be taken In equal monthly proportions
current circular prices throughout the season al
If any such proposition is accepted by the Cor
pany, the purchaser may, on or before the first d
take the proportion due in such month, but sue
declnation shall not give to him the right to tax
In any succeeding month, any increased quaint
in lieu of that SO declined.
FRANKLIN B. GOWEN, Presiden
Philadelphia, Feb. s. 1878. mar4-tl2t