Milton Coal Company
Mine Located at Milton, Oklahoma
H. S. Waller, Manager
Milton, Okla.
E. S. Lowther, General Agent
Guthrie, Okla.
Correspondence Solicited
The average thickness of coal in
Oklahoma is perhaps less than three feet. This is one reason Oklahoma coal
costs more at the mines than the coal from Colorado, where the veins run from
6 to 14 feet in thickness.
Down at Milton, Okla., which is in
LeFlore County, on the line of the Ft. Smith and Western Railroad, there is a
vein of coal 7 feet 2 inches thick. It is pure coal from top to bottom.
There's no slate, bone, dust, dirt, brick-bats nor iron junk in this coal. The
older coal is the better it is -- just like whiskey. Scientists tell us this
coal has been in process of formation about fifteen million years. A year or
so ago we decided it would be a good time to break the seal, and we've been
mining Milton coal ever since.
Our mine is five miles from Sans Bois
#2 mine. In fact, Milton coal is taken from the Sans Bois vein. We guarantee
our coal to conform in chemical analysis to Sans bois #2, and we guarantee it
will evaporate as much water per pound of coal. Any steam plant in Oklahoma
and Texas will tell you that Sans Bois coal is the best steam coal ever
used. There is no difference between Sans Bois coal and Milton coal :
Milton coal is a foot thicker vein than Sans bois and is a deal harder.
For the furnace there is no such coal
as semi-anthracite. There's no smoke, no soot, no cinders. Just free-burning, odorless
clinkerless coal. There has always been one objection to semi-anthracite coal,
however, and it is this: it's too soft. We can't help that altogether, for
Providence made it that way. We can help matters a little by screening it over
a larger screen. Our Domestic Lump is screened over a 3" bar screen.
That's about two inches larger than the semi-anthracite you've been getting.
The Ft. Smith and Western Railroad is
using our coal for their locomotives, and this fact alone we consider a
recommendation that speaks for the steam-making qualities of Milton coal.
Our mine run runs about 70% lump.
Our stack is thru a 3" inch
screen.
Our mines are in Group 5.
We can ship right now. We guarantee
to please YOU at the following prices: F.O.B. Milton, Okla.
Lump,
$2.75
Mine run, $1.75
Slack. $1.50
MILTON COAL COMPANY
E. S. Lowther, Gen'l Sales Agent
Guthrie, Oklahoma