Excerpt from The Weathering of Coal The bituminous coal producers have a more uniform demand throughout the year for all sizes and grades of their product than the anthracite producers can expect. Large power plants, naval coaling stations and railroads are the principal interests storing bituminous coal, except around the great lakes. At nearly all the cities at the head of lakes, the coal companies themselves store great quantities of coal during the season of navigation. Part of this coal is for local consumption, but a larger part of it is for reshipment by rail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.