Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1903 — Hard Coal Still Coming. [ARTICLE]

Hard Coal Still Coming.

A. L. Branch received the first hard coal shipment he has been able to receive since the strike, the other dealers having had all the hard coal luck up to this time. came with a rush when it did come, and he received four car loads today, two of the nut and two of the stove size, both being for use in base burners, and in great demand. The price of hard coal continues to dlimb, and the price’here now is 19.50 per ton, delivered.