The Florists' Review 



AUGUST 8, 1912. 



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FLORISTS* FUEL DIRECTORyI 



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Extraordinarily Low Stoeklng Prices for July, August and Sept. 



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^1. Pooaboatmst Indian Mountain Smokalasa and Twi^f t^t n^ 

 Bloek. 



Mt On application, we will send you ABSOLUTELY FREE our Instruction 

 ^L Card on the Proper Firing of Smokeless Coals." Hang it in your 

 boiler room— it will save you hundreds of dollars. 



WRITE FOR DKUVKRKD PRICES. 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



The coal trade insists there will be a 

 fuel shortage as soon as cold weather ar- 

 rives, primarily of domestic sizes of an- 

 thracite but affecting all other depart- 

 ments of the trade. 



POCAHONTAS COAL. 



I am thinking of using Pocahontas 

 coal this coming winter and shall be 

 grateful if you will tell me something 

 about its burning and heating qualities. 

 Does it burn as freely as the ordinary 

 soft coalt Does it make as many clink- 

 erst Is it smokeless or nearly sot' So 

 far as I know, this and other grades 

 of so-called smokeless coals have never 

 been used in this section, so that we are 

 entirely ignorant of what they will do. 



Belmont, N. Y. C. L. Walker. 



"If of good quality and not too fine, 

 Pocahontas coal burns freely, but it is 

 so soft that it is likely to crumble and 

 as a rule there will be a large amount 

 of dust, which may result in slow com- 

 bustion. While not entirely smoke- 

 less, the better grades of Pocahontas 

 coal, when properly fired, make little 

 smoke. Ordinarily they will be no 

 more economical and have but little if 

 any merit over the better grades of 

 ordinary bituminous coal." This is the 

 statement of a fuel expert, but the fact 

 remains that the big greenhouse estab- 

 lishments near Chicago almost all use 

 Pocahontas in preference to other coals, 

 even though Pocahontas costs, laid 

 down, more than most other coals cost. 

 I^eight and switching charges make 

 Pocahontas cost in the vicinity of Chi- 

 cago about three times what it is worth 

 at the mouth of the mine. Some Chi- 

 cago greenhouses burn as much as $50,- 

 000 worth of Pocahontas coal per year. 



THE FUEL MABEZT. 



The strength of the anthracite market 

 may be gleaned from the fact that in- 

 dividual shippers can command a pre- 

 mium of 10 to 15 cents on stove coal 

 when selling that size separately, but, 

 as in the case of the companies, few of 

 them will accept orders for that size 

 alone and on mixed lots the regular cir- 

 cular applies. The buckwheat sizes are 

 still in oversupply, though the accumu- 

 lation of No. 1 has been somewhat re- 

 duced in the last week. Prices have 

 firmed up slightly, but there is a lot of 

 cheap coal remaining, which is selling 

 as low as $2.30 for No. 1, $1.85 for No. 

 2 and $1.55 for No. 3. Pea coal brings 

 the full circular price. 



The soft coal market has about held 



Geo. F. Qetz 

 Pi-esident 



E. 8. VanSant 

 Viee-Preslden 



Norman S. Bikkland 

 Secretary 



Willis D. Maier 

 Treasurer 



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 AT LOW PRICES 



AND CAN 



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T«i. Harrison 2881 



332 S. Michigan Ave. 

 CHICAGO 





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Pocahontas and New River 



Mines of 



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Office: 1805 Peoples Qas Building, CHICAQO 



TcleptaoBc Randolph 3901 



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its own during the last week. The im- 

 provement brought about bj the clean- 

 ing up of demurrage coal has been main- 

 tained and no new accumulations of this 

 class of tonnage are noted. The slightly 

 broader demand in the spot market, pre- 



viously noted, remains in evidence, but 

 it is not enough of a factor as yet to 

 have much effect on prices. Some even 

 question the existence of a better de- 

 mand and certainly there is no great 

 activity, but a canvass of many repre- 



