Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-10-23
MoSoNGAH COAL AND COKE Co.,
PARKERsBURG, w. VA,
n.+ohor 10Th 1901

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October 18th, 1891.
4 4 Frqnzheiln, Esq, Secretary Wheel
ing, ". Va.
Nv DEAR SrR:-YOur favor OF the Sth
inst received enclosing telegraphic slip
from FairmOnt TO the Wheeling REGIS
ma signed ENQUIRER" in reference TO
hid M the Monongah Company for sup
DIviDg the Wheeling Gas Company with
coal. and stating that by direction OF the
Roard of Gas Trustees you are Instruct
cd M INQUIRE If the Company desires
Them 20 answer the same, and II so to
please inform them Of that fact either
through the press or by letter.
Tn reply / beg 70 state, as President
OF the MOnOngah Company, that the
Company is not seeking any controversy
ON this subject with the Gas trustees,
nor am 1 disposed 70 criticiSe the action
of the Trustees of the Gas Company In
exercising their discretion In the selec-
tion and purchase Of the fuel supply for
the Gas Works according 10 their own
Judgment, but as the MOnOngah Com
Danv exDects 10 continue 70 compete
for the fuel trade OF Wheeling, both in
coal and coke, upon their merits as
compared with all other fuel reaching
that market, it can have no objection to
meeting any fair criticisms that can be
made against it. OF course the answer
will be that the coal is not equal 70 the
Pennsylvania Goals for gas, or otherwise
that it suited the Company better 70 con-
tinue the use OF the coal they have
been using heretofore; the latter Sug-
gestion would, Of course, present rea-
sons that should have weight, as the
trustees undoubtedly have the right to
exercise their best judgment in purchaS-
Ing its supplies, but in regard 70 the hrst
part OF the proposition, tO-wlt:- That
the Monongah coal snOt as good gas coal
as the Pennsylvania Goals, the Company
has every reason TO believe and to insist
that lt is In all respects as good gas and
fuel coal as the average Of any Pennsyl-
vania Goals. In the first place 10 Is the
same vein Of coal as the Pennsylvania
gas Goals, and is found in greater thick
ness and perfection about Fairmont than
10 is 40 most places in Pennsylvania.
Second, the FairmOnt coal has been used
I'm competition with Pennsylvania gas
Goals both east and west with entire sue
cess. The Columbus Gas Company has
used FairmOnt coal exclusively for
about four years with entire satiSfac-
ton; other companies In the
west have and are now using
the coal i'm competition with the Penn
sylvania Goals. The MOnOngah Com
pany last year supplied a large amount
OF coal to the st. Louis Gas Company,
and was again offered q contract for
this year, in competition with PennSyl.
vania Goals, which on account Of the
cost of rail transportation as compared
with river transportation, was not ac-
cepted. The coal is also being used
constantly from year TO year by the
Philadelphia and New York gas COM
panies, as / am Informed, upon the
same basis as Pennsylvania gas Goals.
We are also shipping from Monongah
an average of over 600 tons per day 70
the lakes for distribution i'm the North
west, and the coal has taken the very
highest rank, and demand for 10 In that
trade.
The coke made from the coal is also
meeting with entire success In COmpeti-
ton With Pennsylvania cokes, and the
Company has active demand for all it
can make. In addition 20 all this,
enclose you statement of analysis, etc,
from Andrew s. McCreath, of Harris
burg, State Chemist OF Pennsylvania,
aud the highest authority on coal and
coke, as follows:
HAEWsBuRG. PA, March "A, 1891.
DKAE SIR.-rhe sample of cCal received from
you GA che lst, yields on analysis the following
results:
WaIet ''''..s's'..''... Log
Volatile Matter. S6.g2l
Fixed Carbon ........... ..... So 40