The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1912-09-11
hill Cut Rate
Dn Coal Freight
Iuch Interest Is Caused
Among Coal Men By Re-
port in a Coal Jour-
nal.

nal.
The statement made in n re.
I'm issue of the Black Diamond
3 4 Chicago, an organ of the coal
&ade. { hat "the Carolina,
Sjuchfeld & Ohio rail road
Id established a rate of $l.25
H;Lom Southwestern Virginia
hines to Charleston, an Incl
&aent marking probably an
suoch in coal interests in Vir
: {lnia, kentucky and Tennessee,
Indicating as it does the ability
h the coal interests of the re-
lion to reach out for bunkerage
.sSnd export business" has caus-
Ia stir among coal operators
tiere upon whose business the
Establishment of such a freight
Hate TO tidewater would have n
Evolutionary effect.
The general impression is,
however, that the statement ia
bot correct and if a freight rate
SSiSl.25 per ton TO Charleston
has been made by the road that
4 5sle is based upon a short ton
sti2,000 pounds and not upon n
Bong ton of 2,240 pounds. a
iBlte Of 81 % per short ton ia ex-
|&clly equivalent TO one of $l.40
sber long ton.
f The export and bunker freight
Bate to Norfolk and Newport
News is 81 40 per long ton and
sall coal for bunker purposes
lhnd for export which is sold
Through the Hampton Roads
spOrls is sold by the ton of p
s9iO pounds.
The Black Diamond said also
B'that the @. G. 81 o. being the
shortest line is able to SET the
minimum rate" That state
ment also is challenged here,
the mileage from Dante, Va. +,
IN the Stonega fields from which
the Clinchfield procures its sup
|pIy of coal is approximately
the same distance from tide.
water at Charleston as the
West Virginia fields are from
Hampton Roads. Coal opera
tors here in discussing this mat
ter explained that the @. c.. IL
~. at present extends south
only to Spartanburg, S. c., and
must send its coal thence to
Charleston over the Q. 81 w. @.
and Southern Railways, divid-
Ing the freight between three
roads, and receiving for its
maui only perhaps about rs
cents ton, u rate which would
not pay interest on its bonds.
is the declared purpose of
Tue road to build its own line
10 Charleston and it is reported
70 be erecting a coal pier at
mat port, but coal operators
here said that this extension
hardly could be built in less
'nan two years and therefore
aac'lve competition need not be
feared by the Hampton Roads
ports for some time.
The management of the Stone
ga Goa! interests has stated that
hexpected to supply coal to the
east coast of Florida through
iparglng fuel south from Char
lesIon and it is admitted that
G lnelr coal probably would suit
"a, 1uOan consumers. The bulk of
Tue coal sold in Cuba now APP
pears to be going from Newport
news In steamers owned by the
nerwind White Coal Mining
company which company large,
island.
Charleston as a port il held
!. coal men generally to be far
to the Hampton Roads
p1tts and too far sonth to be an
aauvan'ageous port for steamers
FOUND over the sea to take
ID "h coal, but they acknow-
ieage that were the Clinchfield
- cut the freight rate 10 cents
l, ION large inroads upon the
Isl here would be made.
Inc belief was expressed,
lroweVer, that were the cut to
n y made, the roads leading to
''iatnpton Roads would meet it
" ,,n the result that rates both
W tlUeWntpr "a nd Inland o1,-4c