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From: "Ronald" rdukarm AT roadrunner DOT com
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 01:02:46 -0500
Subject: Re: (erielack) Notes on the Types and sizes of Anthracite
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> But smaller sizes went for less money per ton, so the railroads did not
> like producing any more than necessary. Domestic users might like the
> price, but didn;t like the dust and bother.
> Cheers,
> Jim

Jim & List,

Attached is a Lackawanna coal ad from the Buffalo papers in 1880. This was
just after the DL&W built their trestle but before their own tracks reached
Buffalo in 1882. Note you could place your coal order by telephone and the
DL&W would deliver it anywhere in the city limits. You never had to leave
your office. McWilliams headed the railroad's coal operations in Buffalo
from 1879 to 1903.

Ron Dukarm




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