340 Anthracite Coul of Peinsylvand. 
A little practice will enable any one to make and control 
a fire in a good stove, but not so readily in a grate, unless 
the “draught is strong.’? I have a sheet iron stove, lined 
with fire brick, in which the fire is six inches in diameter, 
and I can keep in it a bright and beautiful fire of coal but 
two inches deep. ‘There are few grates, where a handsome 
fire can be kept with less than six inches of coals, although 
in some instances, three inches will answer. 1 believe the 
most Meonomibar sesslicatiod of the coal, is beyond question, 
in lined sheet iron stoves. 
As to future supplies of this coal, there is no doubt they 
will be abundant, as the Lehigh Coal Company can easily 
furnish 100,000 tons per annum from their territory, since it is 
not mined but quarried in an open basin, where almost any 
number of men may be employed—so that they are limited 
only by the capacity of the Lehigh river to float it down te 
the Delaware. 
The price in New York, will not probably vary within twe 
years, or until the completion of one of the New Jersey ca- 
nals from the Delaware to the Hudson or Raritan river, when 
the price will be $7 or less in New York. 
Another correspondent, whose letter is dated Dec. 36th, 
1825, remarks , “ It appears to be the settled opinion, both in 
New York and in Philadelphia, that the Scuylkill coal has a 
decided preference, and particularly so for parlour grates and 
domestic uses. It is lighter, purer, more easily ignited, gives 
more flame, and burns freely with less draught.- The ashes 
are of a brown colour, and more ponderous than the Lehigh ; 
and consequently less annoying to the lungs and furniture, &c. 
and what may be considered, perhaps, of primary importance, 
is the fact, (resulting from those peculiar properties before 
named,) that you ean regulate the quantity and degree of your 
fire, according to the temperature of the weather, as com- 
‘pletely as with Liverpool coal, or any other fuel. The 
Schuylkill coal is a new article in New York. In the fall of 
1824, the Schuylkill Company brought on about 500 tons, 
which was widely dispersed, by way of experiment. This 
season, nearly 3000 tons have been received, and there has 
not been any occasion to put a bushel into the yards, orders 
having constantly anticipated the supplies, and that too at ap 
advanced price. The opinions of manufacturers, such as 
iron founders, brewers, soap boilers, hatters, &c. &c. in so 
far as experience and comparison have been made, are de- 
cidedly in favour of the Schuylkill coal. Some, however. 
