Lehigh coal prices 1950's by Jack
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Wow, you can see from the pricing that coal stokers must not have been popular at that time! Rice and Buck are way, way cheaper than Nut and Stove. I wonder what year it is from?
Thanks for posting it Jack.
-Don
Thanks for posting it Jack.
-Don
Notice Lehigh was selling coal at different prices .I have some monthly Lehigh reports that they were selling Rice An Buck at lest then cost of production .Sort of disposal of junk .After all my thouhts is A Ton Of Coal all is the same .By 1954 The Company Was near Bankruptcy .Sad jack
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Really nice sign, Jack. Did you find it at a public auction?
My earliest coal buying experiences were paying $48 a ton for delivered rice in 1978. That was from a feed mill middleman. In about 1979, an uncle of mine bought 75 tons of nut at $25. a ton. The thing is, he didn't even burn nut coal. He would just chuckle when I asked him why he did that. The second oil crisis was going on and I suppose he thought it would skyrocket in value. He passed the next year and I'm not sure what happened to that coal. I guess that coal really hasn't gone up more than the general cost of living.
My earliest coal buying experiences were paying $48 a ton for delivered rice in 1978. That was from a feed mill middleman. In about 1979, an uncle of mine bought 75 tons of nut at $25. a ton. The thing is, he didn't even burn nut coal. He would just chuckle when I asked him why he did that. The second oil crisis was going on and I suppose he thought it would skyrocket in value. He passed the next year and I'm not sure what happened to that coal. I guess that coal really hasn't gone up more than the general cost of living.