Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — Coal Came Fast. [ARTICLE]

Coal Came Fast.

Three more car loads of hard coal have reached Rensselaer since last reported. Saturday Coen & Brady received a car of the “grate” size, which is the largest size of hard coal that comes to Rensselaer. Monday Donnelly received two oar loads. One of the egg size and one of the rare and precious “nut” size, which last has been the only really scarce size in Rensse laer. It was all promised out before it arrived. And both firms have now disposed of all that they leceived of the other sizes. These three new oars make 15 car loads of bard coal that -have come to Rensselaer since the strike ended, and our dealers had 8 or 10 cars on band left over from last spring, and bills for several more have been received, which shows that Rensselaer has been far from hard luck in hard coal. And it might be said that in soft coal we’ve had a soft snap The supply has been abundant all along, and is vet, in all the better grades of soft coal. The slack grade, which the light and water station uses, is still hard to get in sufficient quantity, and the two or three cars received last week will only be a temporary relief. But' if no more comes soon, there is' still a good deal of the better kind of soft coal in town, and quite a number of good mines of “Nubbin Ridge Coal” not far away,-so that the danger of a shut down of our light, water and school house heating plant is not yet imminent.