The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, And the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines
The book The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, And the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines was written by author Jevons, William Stanley, 1835-1882 Here you can read free online of The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, And the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Coal Question; An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, And the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines a good or bad book?
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per ton. Similarly, the outward rates to the River Plate were about 6^. 6d. to ys. 6d. for most of the year 1904, the homeward freight being 21s. in January and i8s. to 19^. in the later months of the year. For a short time in the middle of the year the homeward rate fell to i^s., and the outward rate went up to 8^. ;^d. These quotations show the effect on outward coal freights of the varying facilities for procuring a homeward cargo which follow the course of the seasons. The ease with which o...ur coal competes argument which depends on the assumption of ballast-rates for the carriage of coal will, of course, not apply. The conceptions on which Jevons dwelt in this connection will be found applicable to important lines of trade elsewhere. Thus the vessels which carry iron-ore from the Lake Superior ports to ports on Lake Erie may find a return cargo of coal to the upper lake ports. Some of the railroads, too, find it profitable to carry coal westward in the cars which have, on their eastward journey, been filled with the grain of the west.
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