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