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GOAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Vol. XIII. PITTSBURGH, PA., NOVEMBER 1, 1905. No. 11.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN;
PUBLISHED TWICE A MONTH.
Copyrighted by THE COAL TRADE COMPANY, 1905.
A. R. HAMILTON, Proprietor and Publisher,
H. J. STHAUB, Managing Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION, - - - - $2 00 A YEAR
Correspondence and communications upon all matters
relating to coal or coal production are invited.
All communications and remittances to
THK COAL TRADE COMPANY.
926-930 PARK BUILDING, PITTSHIIRGH, PA.
Long Distance Telephone 250 Grant.
[Entered at the Post Office at Pittsburgh, Pa., as
Second Class Mail Matter.]
THE SOARING PRICE OF CONNELLSVILLE COKE and
the increasing demand for the same, without any
further information on the subject, would be
sufficient to warrant the conclusion that the gradu­
ally gathering iron and steel boom is well under
way. The apparent dullness of the summer sea­
son was calculated to deceive those not well posted
on the market conditions and prospects; but it
was only "scouring up" time. The conditions
for a year or more have pointed toward increased
and increasing trade. The country has been
prosperous and at no time more so than this fall.
Our crops, which are always a mighty factor in
our prosperity, are uniformly and exceptionally
good. They are all that were needed to insure
another wave upon the wave of our welfare. There
has been further increase in coke production in
the past fortnight. There will be no special
enort made to materially increase production at
the present time, as tne railroads are having con­
siderable difficulty in getting the present supply
to its destination. During the past two or three
weeks the car suuply, though somewhat short of
the region's requirements, has really been better
than was anticipated, and has not crippled the
trade to any great extent. With the car shortage
so general it would not be surprising if tne coke
trade should suffer more or less from tnis cause
during the coming weeks, though strenuous efforts
will be made to prevent suc.i a condition.
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COKE AMI ITS BY-PRODUCTS is the subject of an
exhaustive and comprehensive article by Mr. T. .1.
Easter, president of the Pittsburgh Fuel & Iron
Co., part of which appears on other pages. The
paper was written in contemplation of its presen­
tation before the Monday Night Club of Pitts­
burgh, which is an East End social and educa­
tional organization including women. It there­
fore handled explicitly elementary features of
the industry. But it strikes a most important
keynote. We are just on the threshold of this
by-product industry which means great plants to
utilize the gas and all by-products at industrial
centers remote from where the coking coal is
produced. At many of these more or less great
distances involved, the raw material may be ship­
ped and paid for and separated into the coke and
the by-products at a less cost than the coke alone
could be delivered from the one or two great pro­
ducing fields. These considerations go far be­
yond the significance in coal requirements for such
enterprises, meaning cheaper gas and all coke
by-products and the valued fuel itself besides vast
industrial developments.
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DISPATCHES FROM HAZLETON REPORT that the gen­
eral superintendent and other officials of the Read­
ing company have been inspecting the coal prop­
erties of G. B. Markle & Co., and it is inferred
from this that the purchase of the Markle proper­
ties is impending. It is not a violent inference.