Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-24
INTELLIGENCER B0SH

Completely Exploded by n Correspondent
Who Quotes the Figures.
To he Etitor ofh Register:
SIR:-I enclose clipping from the
Tateliigeaeer on Judge Fleming's candi-
lacy, coal interest and the coal business Of
West Virginia.
Judge Fleming cannot consistently stand
on the platform of the National Democrat
fC PARTY That platform endorses Pres
tdent ssd a Congr,ss who want free raw ma
teriulS Give them the chance and coal Will 90
on tue free list and death-blow would be struck
at the industry in which Judge Fleming has his
fortune invested.
To show the folly of such bosh furnish
statistics OF imports and exports Of coal TO
and from this country for the year ending
june 30, 1888:
Tons.
Imports Bituminous Coal.................. ST. 5O4
R,r,rts Anthracite Co.l ................. 9i4 as3
BiuminOuS " .......-................~ IoS,2lS
Total exports ,oSl
lacking but few tons OF being double the
total imports From the same source l
got the following interesting statistics:
Euglish Goals are worth at the pit mouths
"A follows Yorkshire, o., OF $3.50 our
money; Durham, AZ Sd, or 81 O6 our
money; this is an inferior coal and the
cheapest on the list, rs you will obServe:
Forest OF Dean, 81 81, OF ~ II our money;
SYDNEY, 10s, or 81 80 our money; Lam
csshire, SO cd, cur s.. II or money; North
cumberland, IS 3 aud Sd, or 81 IL our
money; South Wales, los sd, or 81 81 our
money.
Some OF the above Goals reach the Pacific
coast in California, for the simple reason
that American coal can not be got there
for want of transportation. Besides these
Goals entering our ports, there is more or
less Novs Scotia coal getting III along the
New England coast. None OF them can he
bought at the mines for anything like the
figures that American coal is sold ut, the
hest OF which can be brought {. o. D. cars
st the mines for from ST. 90 TO 81. % per ton
for best grades ofcoal.
The very superior Pittsburg best quality
of gas coal can be bought for 81 25 per ton,
thousards of tons being sold every day for
that, much of 1t going TO Cam and other
foreign markets.
Such, Mr.. Editor, isa true statement Of
facts, rs can be verified by perusal Of the
Coal Trade Journal, a publication devoted
exclusively to coal men, coal business and
coal mining.
Yet the average Republican politician of
West Virginia, with Gen. Golf at the head
and the Iatelligeaeer to aid them in their
work, will slop over with such bosh. You
see by the above we are selling more coal
abroad than is coming into the country.
We would sell ten times as much if we
could only get the transportation for it.
We are paying more for mining than the
English do, if we can believe Mr.. Jarrett
or the statistics on that subject.
Why then should these people attempt
to impose on coal owners, operators or
coal miners, with such bold faced nom
sense?
I have heard it asserted over and over
again that ifii was not for protection afford
ed the coal operators and miners by the
that there would be no coal
mined in the State for shipment.
say this is the song of demagogue
and nobody else; there is not O word Of
truth in it, as an Investigation Of the
fnrts will prove. Any coal man will show
the West Virginia politician, Gen. Golf or
the EateligeRcr the publication referred
to; il is published weekly, and all coal
men buy it. From one who likes
FAIR PLAY.
Wheeling, W. Ia August %.