Domestic coal onesy-twosy handling question

Tue Mar 14 09:17:24 EDT 2017

When the N&W opened the Pocahontas Coalfield it purchased the coal and coke
products from the mines at set prices and sold the coal through a coal
broker. N&W got out of the coal broker business in 1895, but a new group
took over the coalfield contracts. This lasted until about 1908 when the
mine owners began establishing their own coal broker businesses. 

A series of Articles were published in 2015 in the NWHS "Arrow" on the N&W
Vision. Part 1 published in the Jan-Feb-Mar 2015 issue of the "Arrow" deals
with the coal producer contracts. 

It is doubtful any N&W coal made it to Newfoundland because of trade
restrictions.

Alex Schust

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     Once, nearly every town in the USA and Canada had a dealer or two
receiving carloads of coal. Can any of you explain how the coal was handled
mine to retailer? Were certain mines oriented to this trade? 

Were they selling direct to coal yards or did brokers take multi-car lots
and re-sell in regional areas? (Did N&W coal make it to places like
Newfoundland and deliver on narrow gauge trucks?) Has this been covered in
one of the magazine issues?

     WJPowers

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