Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large part of the railroad receipts is obtained from freight traffic, the best paying freight is that hauled for long distances in long trains requiring no re-switching. But the profits on all railroads are dependent on what fuel costs them. So those railroads having coal beds on their own lines are manifestly at a distinct advantage over those who must obtain their coal from a distance. Freight profits are dependent in part also on running full trains in both directions and avoiding as far as possible the costly "strings of empties...
...fuel cost, too, weighs heavily against New England lines. All the coal must be brought in from outside; and with the advanced freight rates the coal costs have mounted immensely, but wholly to the advantage of the large railroads in whose territory most of the coal lies...
...agricultural situation the committee states that the drastic declines of 1920-1921 in prices of farm products have made such commodities as grain and live stock cheap when compared with coal, building materials, machinery, and other manufactured goods. This is obviously proven by the fact that the wholesale farm products are below the prices of 1918, while the average of all commodities is about 50 per cent above the level of that period, and the prices of many of these manufactured articles are double the pre-war prices. This drop in agricultural products is due to the general collapse...
Gilboa is situated near Grand Gorge on the western slope of the Catskill Mountains. During the Devonian period of geological time, which immediately preceded the carboniferous period when the coal-measures were formed, the region where Gilboa now stands is thought to have been a swamp formed by the delta of a river flowing from what is now northeastern New England into a continental sea which covered most of New York, Pennsylvania, and the regions to the westward. The fossils, weighing several hundred pounds, are good examples of the tree-like Devonian vegetation found in this region...
...meeting of the Geological Club to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in Foxcroft House, Mr. Rodgers Peale will speak on "Geology and Mining Methods of the Bituminous Coal Fields of Pennsylvania," and Mr. W. R. McComb will talk on "Mine Mapping at the Aztec Mine of Northern New Mexico." The meeting will be open to all members of the University...