The story of Pittsburgh: Coal and coke

Coal and coke (Vol. 1, nr. 4)

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831622963

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-239757

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Title:: Coal and coke

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 4

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1920

Scope:: [ca. 16] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Coal and Coke

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Monongahela River were completed, and in 1845, the raw coal of the Brier Hill seam was successfully used to smelt iron ores at the Clay Furnace. near Sharon. Pa. PITTSBURGH COAL COMPANY The Pittsburgh Coal Company is the owner and operator of seventy coal mines in the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois and Kentucky, which have an annual capacity of 30,000,000 tons. Of these collieries, 60 are located in the heart of the Pittsburgh district, the most wonderful coal fields in the world, and are known as the Youghiogheny and Westmoreland fields. In this district, the Pittsburgh Coal Company is the owner of 152,745 acres of unmined coal, and within these properties lie the highest grade of gas, coking and steam coals. The following analysis shows the high standard of the company’s gas coal: Moisture................. 0.50 9% to 1.00 9% Volatile matter. ........ 32.00 9 to 84.00 Fixed carbon. . 38.00 9, to 60.00 Ash.................... 5.50 %to 7.00 9 Sulphur.................. 0.75 9 to 0.90 9, Phosphorus. ............. 0.005% to 0.0109, British Thermal Units... . . . 14.250 to 14.500 The company’s mines in the Youghiogheny and West- moreland field are joined by the company’s own railway, called the Montour Railroad, 51 miles in length, of the best modern construction and equipment, and connections are made direct with Lake Erie ports, and to railways east west and south. The company possesses excellent facilities for loading coal into ocean vessels, for export shipments to South America and other countries, at the ports of New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia. At the ports on the Great Lakes, extensive and modern loading plants are operated. During the summer months, millions of tons of the Pittsburgh Coal Company’s gas and steam coal are forwarded by the way of the Great Lakes to its docks on

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