Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1917 — COMPARATIVE COAL PRICES [ARTICLE]

COMPARATIVE COAL PRICES

BELOW WE GIVE PRICES DEALERS ARE CHARGING FOR COAL. Indplis. Rens. Linton No. 4 lump ....$5.50 $6.00 Pocohontas mine run ..7.50 Pocohontas lump 8.00 7.50 Pocahontas mine run ...7.50 Anthracite nut 10.00 9.50 Anthracite stove 9.75 Anthracite egg 9.50 9.25 Eastern coal 7.50 7.25 Brazil block 6.25 6.75 The Rensselaer prices are delivered. Coal taken off the car or out of the bin by the purchaser is , allowed a reduction of 50c per ton by Rensselaer dealers. Indianapolis dealers make extra delivery -charges as follows: Carried into cellar, 50c per ton. The freight rate to Indianapolis on all bituminous eoal is quite a little lower than to Rensselaer. The demand that dealers here divide the coal to customers, thus necessitating many more deliveries, also adds to the expense of the Rensselaer coal merchants..