Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-15
BLACK DIAMONDS.
More Than 100000 Worth Of Them
Sold in Memphis in One Year
Profitable
Business That is Growing Very Fast, and
Affords Fair dedication of the In
crease of Population.

Coal il ,Tuf. household word. 1t not
onlv appeals 10 once pocket, but recalls dis.
NAL recollections Of cherries CRATES on win
ter nights and hurrie disrooing aad shoot
into bed when the chambsrmaid has forgot,
ten 10 provide the much b. desired caloric.
II Is like fuueral-sverybo5ym must have it,
and anything shout its price or progress is
therefore of interest. An APPEAL reporter
yesterday made round among the coal men,
and found out a good many things that be,
az a FIRE worshipper OF many years standing,
had not known Professional pride prompts
The assertion that what the newspaper N an
does net know ia a mystery to he shortly.
For this reason the results of the tour are
appended.
the COAL TRADE
of Memphis has increased of late rapidly
sud h.s becuge one OF her chief interests.
In 1882 6,2y 900 bushels OF the dusky
diamonds wer handled here, aud dealers an.
| iinipsie much larger business for 1888.
The price has been forty 10 fifty cents bar
rel Tor Pittsburg snd from thirty to thirty
I've cents for kentucky coal. The importa-
ton of the later is a new factor in the trade
Ii is used b. factories and other large es ab-
Sishments, where the saving Of ten or fifteen
cents barrel amounts to round sum in
the course of a year.
THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD
| ia doing large business 90 It's own account
| The coal is brought from mines IN Kentucky
and delivered from the cars to factories al
the price named above. 1t is softer than
the Pittsburg article, but lasts as long if no.
| punched, and makes no "cIinkers" when let
alone. At some time during the year the
railroad company will erect an elevator on
the river fromlwhich 10 supply boats without
the expense Of hauling. The Chesapeake
and Ohio road slso is making arrangements
to furnish large supply of coal from Ken
| lucky mines next year. "Then," remarked
a dealer, tive never need fear shortage OIL
| famine prices"
| THE CONSUMPTION OF COAL
has increased beyond the population. AL
steamboats, aud railroad engines now usd
it in preference to wood, where the latter
4 was used few years ago on account of it,
abundance ana supposed cheapness. The
\ extension OF railroad communications and
the reduction in price, and certainty of sup
| ply that it has brought, makes coal cheaper
than wood, and herein will lie the solution
of the problem of preserving our forests
] Many people along the line Of the railroads
! now buy coal instead of cutting The wood or
! their lspds.
THE ALABAMA MINES
produce a coal free from sulphur, which
makes 1t particularly suitable for the use OF
| iron manufactures. They tura out only $500
tons day, and tle whole product ia sold &c
| Blrmingh ham aud the Gulf coast. 1t is moi
| likely that sny OF it will be brought tc
| Memphis. "This and the Kentucky coal.'
said one Of the men interviewed, care better
than st. Louis gets, and the fact goes tc
show that We need not rely entirely on Pitts.
burg. And, BY tue way, did you know that
| THE GROWTH OF A CITY
| can be giuged BY its coal business? Well, it's
| true. Everybody who comes in or goes to
housekeeping must buy coal, and the new
names on a dealers .order-book are better
statistics than tie census taker gets up
Taking this az evidence, / tell you that
| Memphis Is on boom. Every day we and
| other dealers get new customers, most Of
| them mechanics or respectable lsborers. Such
| people never cone to place unless il is 60
ing upward. To branch of little, look al
the disposition shown to
INVEST MONEY IN THE CITY.
A new bank with capital of 5000, 900 wat
mooted. In 'iess than no time all of the
| stock was taken, and several parties wanted
to take more ihau they could get. Sayera
moneyed men are figuring or a four-miH
| TO be etsrted as soon as The Kansas CITY roaC
| ia completed and can furnish The wheat
They propose TO sell the -four al cost and ye
their profit on the bran and shorts. Then
ses the new buildings going upl It's enough
10 make man shout. Memphis got one ad
vantage from her epidemics-she was sdver
tised. Every body knows Memphis, and be-
exec optional advantages of location are fulll
appreciated. If you and have good lucl
we will live to see 100000 people on thes
bluffs"