is still steadily increasing, both by the production of our own mines and by imports frora abroad. We

are very crude affairs. The bituminous coal, infiltrated with sulphur, gives out an ungracious heat

are the ascending price of coal, the car shortage and the paucity and high cost of labor, all three being the direct

! guard the public from a repetition of them. If the mining and transportation of coal were carried

is that, unlike electricity, which can only be generated by steam power, and the con jequent use of coal

and mine. It is tending to cast a stigma on the business from which you and I gain our livelihood

. The shortage at the mines estimated at 5,000.000 tons is of a very serious nature and consumers of coal

'g to the Durham coal strike, the trade has been under a cloud—one which has now cleared away. It should be added

to seven dollars per ton for coal cannot understand why th© owners of mines in the Lehigh region should

composed-of brown coal, peat and the dust and waSte from coal mines, has developed to such important

no attention," "Replying to your enquiry as to the amount of coal I burn in my garbage crematory, will say

MINING POINTS. Caribou has been listed upon the New York Mining Board. It ought to be a purchase

.00. Coraraunications should be addressed to C. W. SWEET, Nos. 135 AND 137 Broadway NEW lOEK A MINING CENTRE. It is now

consumers be protected from gouging by coal profiteers? Suspension of mining five months has led

to keep the mills and quarries and mines operating practically un to current capacitv for a very long time

it may establish a new point of departure in the growth of Saratoga. MINING INFORMATION. There seems

room. There is no need for any considerable coal storage, inasmuch as the mine is nearby and can

August 5, 1922 RECORD AND GUIDE 167 REAL ESTATE SECTION Must Use Coal Sparingly in View of Shortage

suggests the following precautions: Coal the size of a walnut or larger is well adapted for storing. Mine

, etc., that accompanies tha coal as it comes from the mine. The lumps of coal may average i> per cent