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Excerpt from Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of City Trusts of the City of Philadelphia for the Year 1898
The average ro'yalty received upon the tons of coal produced was 3511055 cents per ton. The average royalty taken upon the tons shipped was cents per ton. Upon the tons of freshly mined coal shipped by collieries, not including washeries, the average royalty was 4212545, cents per ton, and upon the 34,027fi tons from culm banks shipped by washeries, it was 1211015 cents per ton. The coal shipped to market in the thirty-six years during which coal has been mined under mining leases from the City of Phila delphia, Trustee under the Will of Stephen Girard, from 1863 to 1898 inclusive, has been tons. The coal consumed in the operation of the collieries, in gener ating steam for the running of engines used in hoisting and hauling coal and material, in pumping water and in ventilating the mines, mostly coal of the smallest size, was in the year 1898, tons, equal to per cent of the coal shipped to market. 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.
