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The Florists' Review 



November 28, 1912. 



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THE HARD COAL SITUATION. 



The coal question is extremely inter- 

 esting just now, not only to florists but 

 to the whole country. The article in 

 The Review for November 14 was espe- 

 cially interesting to me, as I live in the 

 hard coal fields and am always inter- 

 ested in articles concerning coal, as I 

 have made some study of it. 



I see many articles in the New York, 

 Philadelphia and Chicago papers which 

 are considerablj' misleading and give 

 the people a wrong impression concern- 

 ing the coal conditions. 



Hard coal will never be so plentiful 

 again as it has been; while there will 

 be hard coal for a good many years to 

 come, the free and easy output of coal 

 is a thing of the past. In bygone days 

 coal was obtained so easily, and the 

 demand was correspondingly so light, 

 that many tons of coal were thrown 

 out in what are called culm piles, that 

 dot the hard coal fields. This culm has 

 been used for ballasting railroad tracks 

 and filling trestling, and hundreds of 

 thousand? of tons were dumped so as to 

 be washed down into the river beds and 

 <!arried away. These culm piles are 

 now all being reclaimed, and some of 

 these railroad fills on the old Gravity, 

 which has been abandoned, are being 

 sold at high prices. A company is 

 being formed to dredge the river beds, 

 and it is fortunate that we have this 

 waste of the past at hand, to be put 

 into quick use at this time, for at 

 August 1 this year the supply, as com- 

 pared with the supply of August 1, 

 1911, was nearly 6,000,000 tons short. 



It will take a long time for this 

 shortage to be made up, especially if 

 this is a hard winter. It is doubtful 

 if the output this season will ever catch 

 up with the 1911 output. It must be 

 remembered tJiat the thinner veins are 

 l)oing resorted to, pillars are being 

 robbed, and the mining of virgin coal is 

 i^etting farther and farther from the 

 breakers, so the supply is being con- 

 stantly lessened, while the demand is 

 over increasing. 



The reasons for this increased de- 

 mand are obvious. Our increased popu- 

 lation is making a material and appar- 

 <'nt reason for the increased demand. 

 The wood supply is growing rapidly 

 less. The severe winter of 1911-12 

 cleaned up, presumably, every coal bin 

 in the country, and drew so heavily on 

 the companies that they )iad no oppor- 

 tunity of stocking coal as in a milder 

 winter. The six weeks' suspension cur- 

 miled the supply by several million 



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tons. The scare has caused people to 

 seize on all the coal posJiible in order 

 to fill their bins. 



While much is being said in the pa- 

 pers concerning the shortage of cars, I 

 believe the trouble is exaggerated. 

 While there is some shortage of cars, 

 the shortage has not reached the extent 

 that many newspapers have reported. 

 While so far there have been enough 

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