Yes, coal as home heating fuel entailed a lot of work that people preferred not to do.
One question. If you had to be away from home during the winter, who kept the furnace going?
Gary R. Kazin
DL&W Milepost R35.7
Rockaway, New Jersey
- --- On Sun, 3/1/09, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie_@_pipeline.com> wrote:
> Walt Smith's decription below should disabuse people
> once and for all as to whether the anthracite industry
> could have survived, even with the most modern and efficient
> methods of mining and transportation. As I wrote in the
> first message, anthracite was a whole lot better than wood,
> but as soon as easier heating methods were available, people
> converted ASAP.
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