Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-03-11

At south Fourth st Phladelphia
DAVID PALMER, Treasurer.
227 South Fourth St, Philadelphia.
EDWARD A. QUlSTAkD, General sales Agent,
3, Pine St, New York.
The Pkila3e,l.hia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company desire to call the attention OF Retailers
Manufacturers and Consumers to tht Goals IRON
the following collieiies now worked by them:
PINE FOREST PRESTON, No. ?,
KEYSTONE. LoCUsT SPRING,
PINE KNOT EAST FRANKLIN,
GLENDOWkH BAST,
ELLA\GOW POTTS,
PRESTON, No. BEkCHWOOD,
SHAFT, No. ], THOMASTON,
LAVE OAK, FORESiVlLIE.
PfGNiX PARK, No. ., BOSTON RUN,
RAINBOW, PRESTON, No. 4,
MERRIAM, BUCKVfLLE,
INDIAN RIDGE, CED AR HILL,
NINE hlLL GAP, NORTH FRANKLIN MOL
OTTO, NORTH FRANKLIN No 2
IL addition to the product Of the above, they will
SELL factors during the season OF 1873 all OF tn.
GOALS IRON the following well-known coll cries that
are either rhpped from Port Richmond or consign-
ed through tine Delaware and Raritpn Canal:
TUNNEL DOE, BIG MINERN,
LAWRENCE, GLENTWORTH,
WV. Penn, ENTERPRISE,
GIRARDVILLE. BIG MOUNTAIN,
UNION. BROOKs1DE,
ALASKA, SHENANDOAH
BUCK RIDGE, PLANK RIDGE,
BURNSIDE, HAMMOND,
ST. NICHOLAS, GIRAKD,
COLORADO, KENTUCKY,
RkE Ely Run, (REENBACk,
MCMICHAEL, BEARVALLEY.
No Nurture ofthe Different Grades Of Coal wni IN
any case be permitted, and each Of the sever.l
classes of coal produced at the aboy named col.
lieres " i'll be kept strictly separate from the ot
ers: All sales Will be made under the following
7. Herd White Ash Coal.
?. Free-Burning white Ash Coal.
3. sehuylkill Red Ash Coal.
4. alaska Red Ash Coal.
5. ShamOkin " hite Ash Coal.
q. shamoGin Red Ash Coal.
I. North Franklin Coal.
q. LOrberry Coal.
d. Lykens Valley Vein Coal.
In order that ali coal shall be shipped in good or
der most rigid system of inspect ton, boih ut the
mines and al the shipping ports will at all tim.
be enforced. In every district Of the coal region
there will be appointed Il umb Der oil competent per
sons skilled IN the preparation of coal, local in
spectors, whose duty 1t will be to visit the several
co'lieres daily to see that roper force is at II
If possible, any coal being sent from the min in
bad order. In addition to these efforts at proven
tion no means will tie LETT untred at the shipping
ports 10 cure the evils of careless preparation. Al
ochuylkili, Haven, Port Clinton, and Port Rich.
mond, all coal will he subjected to the per onal
animation oil skilled inspector before ii is ship
ped, and II condemned by him. will be dumped In
PAGES provided for the purpose aud before being
loaded into vessels will be thoroughly repic ked and
cleaned by hand, at the cost of the owner of the
lery that producedit In entering into business
as coal merchants controlling n uroducon gr,.,Ier
than that OF any other seller and embracing more
than iwOhrds OF The coal TO be shipped from Port
Richmond, the Com, any are fully alive to the great
no expense to secure for their Goals q reputation
second to none IN The country.
The Company's ownership of ninety thousand
acres OF coal land in the frs and second coal
the proximity of those regions to tide-water al
Philadelpha-the advantages of the descending
grades the roads OF the Pniladel Jhia and Read.
ing ilroad Company, and OF the fleet of steam
golfers being established bv the latter Company,
render it certain that the Phiade ph,a and Reading
Goal and Iron Company will always supply large
proportion vi the coal con sumed upon the Atlantic
coast In addition to these geographic, | and local
adj "A q fh.tf hay tha npl1
the large INNING companies whose lanus 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 purpose, gives them an adj.
Il nal claim upon the favorable consideration of
the coalpurchasing community.
The anth q, lite coal Trade of this country will
hereafter be CONT oiled and prices established by
those who actually represent the ownership OF the
coal ltse and the rulnous snspen ,ions of mining
and fluctuations OF prices will be avoided 1t will
be the great aim of the Company to induce feel.
ing OF confidence ON the part of their .mers SO
that retailers and manufacturers may take advan-
tage Of their capital to lay in supply of coal
whenever 1t is most convenient for them to do ST.
without any apprehension that the value of their
the Company.
On or ABOUT the Goth of each month throughout
the season, circulars will be issued from the Cen
eral ONCE OF the Company in Phi adelphia, estab.
fishing prices for the succeeding month"; and or.
ders may DC sent either TO the Treasurer of the
Company, in Philadelphia. or o the General Sales
Agent, in Ne" York. Propositions may be made
60 the Company at any time before the first day OF
April 1873 for the purchase ola stated quantity Of
current circular prices through ut the season; and
II 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 propoi ton due in such month, but slch
declination shall not give to him the right take
IN any succeeding month, any increased quantity
in lieu OF that so declined
FRANKLIN B. G0WEN, President.
Philadelphia. Feb. 5. 1873 mari-.l2t