The evening world., 1888-09-01
BUY YOUR COAL RIGHT OFF.
YOU MIGHT EVEN HAVE BOUGHT IT SOONER
10 ADVANTAGE.


ana Will ne Another before October-
These Facts stand Out 10 ap Interesting
Story Of the Growth Of the Enormous
Ceal Demand and supply.
The wise man islhe who lays in his supply
of winter coal in the spring or early sum-
mer. II takes up no more room in his cellar
than il does at any other time, and he pur-
chases 1t without the two or three advances
in price which will be tackled on before Oc-
tober.
The price at present is 1928 q ton for
buckwheat coal, the lowest grade, and 81. 65
q ton for stove and chestnut coal, which is
the highest grade of coal for domestic pur-
poses. As prices range. 1915 ought to be
about the average cost of coal per ton.
There are seven great coal companies
which supply the market outside of indi-
vidual dealers. who count much less, rs their
capacity for storing coal is far less than that
of the companies. These are the Lehigh
Valley, Reading, Jersey Central, Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western, Delaware and
Hudson, Pennsylvania Coal Company, and
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Lehigh
Coal Mining Company is q part of the Read
ing system.
OF these companies. some have wished to
run up the price of coal, and the others have
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have been two advances in the price of coal,
one of from 10 to rs cents, and the other
from 10 to Is cents on the ton. Both these
increases in the price of coal per ton are
ascribed by the companies in a certain meas
ure to the rates or tolls of the transportation
Another advance, possibly a smaller one than
either of these two, may be looked for about
the beginning of October.
In 1924 the greatest aggregate output of coal
was from the Lehigh Valley and amounted to
1856 tons. One of the Oldest companies in
the city has in Its Office the report for that
year, II little paper pamphlet. Some of the
daring calculators of that day made bold to
assert that in course of time there would he a
demand and supply Of 100, 900 tons! At this
time there were still many of those intelli-
gent beings who thought that you might as
we'll try to use stone as coalifor burning pur-
poses. These calculators were looked on as
wild, visionary fellows with a reckless sort of
arithmetic.
This year the output of coal from the sew
eral points of supply will be over thirty-six
millions of tons, and the demand is more
than equal to this. enormous mining product.
In July alone there were $3.50, 900 tons of
coal mined! The demand, however, has
been SO great that the stock at tidewater was
diminished $50, 600 tons.
the coal output of each year is, of course. in
the increase of the population but another
equally good reason lis the general introduce
ton of base burning stoves. When farmers
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night and keeps their houses warm all the
time, they drop burning wood. In one of
the back country towns a farmer tried to buy
a cord of wood and couldn't get it. The
dealer didn't have it on hand. He said he
could get it, but that the man who felled his
own Timber bought coal. No one who ever
begins to burn anthracite coal ever gives it
up, it is so clean and SO effective for heating.
The demand from the West for coal is con-
stantly increasing, too.
I'VE produce all the coal that is wanted, I"
said the President of one of the Oldest coal
companies, one which numbers John Jacob
Aston. Logrand b. Cannon, David BOWS,
James Roosevelt and Others of that class of
men in its Board of Managers. "Yet some
Of these people say to us: You ought to
produce all the coal you cam We are not
chartered to mine more coal than the people
want. Where could we store it2 Till it is
wanted. it can't stay in q better place than
where the Lord put it.
"Our company has about the largest stor
ing capacity of any, and our piling ground
will accommodate 600, 900 tons. Why, have
you any idea of how far a million tons could
be stored up Broadway, beginging at the Bat.
terry, and letting il lie as deep as to the sec.
ond-story windows? Somebody who is fond
of these calculations has found out that il
would run up to Fourteenth street.
1.-The rates this year are about what they
were in 1882 and 1887. You've got to take
into account what is done by the companies
to get the coal and bring it here. The an.
thracite region is at the nearest point Isl