Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-10-05
VEST VIRGINIA COAL.
lis Superior Cooking Qualities
Demonstrated.
Some Valuable Points Presented by an ex-
pe,t---0ur Regular Weekly Resume
of State News.

That well known and valuable mining
ard Industrial journal, The Virginias, in
tie course of q very exhaustive article upon
Wet Virginia coal, says:
"Tte market for West Virginia coke,
sbst made from the ssmi-bituminous Goals
of he New River and Flat.Top coal fields,
ia coritantly enlargrDg ss the especial merits
Of that fuel-its high carbon, low ash, low
sulI hUr and phosphorus become better
spour sad their money value to the con
,uner understood and appreciated. For
be superiority OF this coke over any other
in the country for all metalurgical purposes
We have
LONG CoNTENDED
BY calling attention to the results Of its use
in Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio blast
Furnaces, foundries, exc.
"Mr. ii. Tracy, representing Geo. d.
Hull & Co., the well known metal and fuel
dealers OF Louisville, Ky, during a recent
visit to the cfice of The Virginias, informed
us that they could not obtain New river
coke enough to supply the demands OF their
customers at prices very considerably above
those st which standard Conceivable coke
could be bought, and that he had been Wis
itirg tie INITIAL, Fire Creek, Echo, Stone
cliff and Quinnimont New River collieries
on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, for
which G. W. Hull & Co., are the Western
agents, to urge them to
CREASE THEIR PRODUCT OF COKE
to erab.e them to meet this increased de,
m8nd.
"P, rmanent agencies for the sale of New
River coke have been established in Gin.
%cipnsti, Columbus, Evansville, %Indisnapo-
lis, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. G. ".
Hull & Co. are not only supplying Louis
Vile, but extending their sales to Nash
vile, Memphis and other points in the
Southwest, where these cokes commsnl a
dollar and over q ton more than do the in
ferior Alabama coke.s The st. Louis
agency is supplying smelling works in Col
orsdo and other distant points in the far
west, ard the Chicago agency makes sales
in MilV aukee and 10 Northwestern points.
Some Central 0aio blast furnaces will use
this coke as soon as
STEADY SUPPLY
of it can be assured.
The new river region needs a great
many more coke ovens, and capital invest
ed there now in coke making will meet
very handsome returns even at present
prices. The time has come when coke
making should be there made a speca al in,
iustry, so that not only an abundant sup
ply of coke can be had to meet all de-
nan6s for it, but 80 that coke of q uniform
grade and of a high standard excellence
cau always be had, which can only be
he case where coke making is fol,
lowCd as q distinct business and not as a
mere adjunct to the coal trade, as it now is.
Our coke producers must see to 1t that only
irsf.clsss coke, such as will bear the most
rigid inspection, is sent to market. They
have the material to make a coke
AT LEAST SIX PER CENT BETTER
han any other, and it will be their own
FAULT if they do not reap this six per cent OF
advantage. Consumers want cokes having
email per centsges of ash, sulphur and
phosphorus in them, snd for such they are
willing to pay good prices.
From here Mr.. Ira y went to visit the
Flat top region OF the Norfolk and Western
Ri ilroad, where these b%ituminous Goals are
m:ned, and where, at Pocsbontas, some
'oSe ovens are in full blast, to ascertain
Nhether arrangements could not be made
It the Pocahontas aud B'uestone mines for
a large quantity of coke to be shipped
9th over the Norfolk and Western roads
o supply the blast furnaces, fouudries and
ter coke.using establishments Of Tennes-
e., Georgia and Alabama.
NO COOL KIN CoAL
has yet been found in those States, and these
establishments can afford to pay good prices
for Flst-top coke rather than to use the in
ferior article made from local Goals.
"In this connection we would again call
attention to the great advantages that will
accrue to both the coking coal regions
above referred to when the Ohio Central
shall have made connection with the Chesa-
peske and Ohio at Kanswhs Falls or
Hawksnest and the Norfolk and Western
hall have extended its road northward to q
connection with the same road by way OF
Cabin Creek to q point opposite C~oslburg,
OF by way of Coal River to a point opposite
81. Adams, thus securing a short and direct
ssy for these superior cokes to all the great
coke consuming Northwest.