234* Coal. 



ANTHRACITE OF SCHUYLKILL IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



We extract the following from the New York Evening- 

 Post for the 30th of June last: 



Coal. — We are pleased to find that there is a rational 

 prospect of this city being supplied, during the ensuing winter, 

 with coal from the extensive mines which are now working in 

 the great Schuylkill coal range of Pennsylvania. — Philadel- 

 phia has long enjoyed this advantage, and the effect there has 

 been to reduce the price of wood at least one third. New 

 Jersey appears to be following the example, by making ar- 

 rangements for the transportation from Philadelphia of the 

 Lehigh coal, which is said to have produced a saving on one 

 trial of 50 per cent. Efforts are likewise making in this city 

 to obtain sales for this article. When we know, as we do, 

 that the Lehigh coal sends out nearly doule the heat of the 

 Liverpool coal, and will burn considerably longer, the pro- 

 priety of its introduction to this city, in preference to the im- 

 ported coal, cannot be questioned. Still we understand that 

 there is a coal dug from the same range of mountains, called 

 the Schuylkill coal, which we have reason to believe is superior 

 to the Lehigh coal, and which brings in Philadelphia five 

 cents more per bushel. The Schuylkill coal belongs to a 

 company in this city, recently incorporated by the legislature; 

 and we are informed it is the intention of the directors to bring 

 5000 chaldrons of this coal into our market next fall, with the 

 double view of profit and to make it more generally known, 

 preparatory to a full supply the ensuing season. We are at 

 all times ready and willing to encourage the improvements 

 of neighbouring states; but certainly, when these come in 

 competition with the enterprize of our own citizens, it cannot 

 be thought invidious, or even unreasonable, if we should give 

 a preference to the latter ; the more especially when we are 

 satisfied, as in this instance, that that preference is founded on 

 general utility. That the Schuylkill coal is superior to the 

 Lehigh coal, we have had no opportunity of determining by 

 actual experiment ; but we have the testimony of those in its 

 favour who are well skilled in these matters, and who, from 

 having used both in various ways, have decided in favour of 

 the former. From this source we learn, that no just and ade- 

 quate conception of the Schuylkill coal can be formed from 

 those specimens of the Susquehannah and Lehigh coal, which 

 have been exhibited in New York. The Schuylkill coal is 

 lighter, purer, and more inflammable. In appearance it is 

 bright and glossy, and often beautifully iridescent. It does 

 not pulverise and throw off a begriming dust, like the common 



coal. 



