Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1903 — Price of Anthracite Raised. [ARTICLE]

Price of Anthracite Raised.

w-holesnle price of that exceedingly rare article, anthracite coal, was advanced in Chicago $3 at one jump Monday. The increase makes the present wholesale price $11.50 n ton. Dealers could give no particular reason for the raise in price, further than tho “condition of the market." Dealers declare the supply of hard coal is still small and that there is little prospect of more for some time.