1941 PA coal prices
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Here is a 1941 ad for coal. If you take the 3.40 a ton for rice and translate that to 2019 its 60.00 a ton. So you can see 200 a ton is way out of any inflation prices. Based on the lack of labor it takes to produce a ton its should actually be less than 60 not more!
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Regulation + inflation = 200 per ton.
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1941 they were still throwing most of the rice coal away.
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It was shortly after the depression to. This was just a couple months before Pearl Harbor. What happened to prices during the war? Im thinking the military needed a lot of coal for the steel industry? And the war in general? The war had to affect prices after it was over too.
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The sub bituminous coal biz in Wyoming needs a new home/buyer.
They shut down 3 mines out in the big sky country a month ago.
They have inexpensive coal (insert scandalously cheap coal prices here) and the cost of freight per ton would still be less than anthracite in bulk.
The sub bituminous coal in montana is almost identical in type and works in AHS boilers so.....
They shut down 3 mines out in the big sky country a month ago.
They have inexpensive coal (insert scandalously cheap coal prices here) and the cost of freight per ton would still be less than anthracite in bulk.
The sub bituminous coal in montana is almost identical in type and works in AHS boilers so.....