[TheForge] Pocahontas Coal

[Dave Brown]

Centaur Forge does have coal, but it's expensive at $22/50# bag.  I asked 
them what kind of coal it was and they told me that it was Cumberland 
Elkhorn.  But when I watch it burn at the UMBA annual membership meetings 
held there in November, it burns more like Pocahontas than Elkhorn.  In 
otherworlds I know what they told me but I'm not sure if it was so.

Be that as it may, $22/50# works out to $880/ton and that's a bit 
steep.  If you were going to spend that kind of money I'd get the washed, 
screened and bagged Pocahontas that Skei Coal in Ames Iowa sells.  Last I 
knew they were getting $9/50#bag.  Still expensive at almost $400/ton plus 
shipping.  But then again, your getting Pocahontas #3 which, in my not so 
humble opinion, beats the snot out of Cumberland Elkhorn as a premium 
blacksmithing coal.

Skei can be reached at:  1-515-232-4474

No, I don't get a commission.

As a side note, Tony, Jim Enloe and I are trying to round up potential 
buyers to share in a truck load of Pocahontas.  We're just not sure when 
(and if) we will actually get it.  The problem is finding a good place to 
dump it when it arrives.

Dave Brown
Green Bay, WI

  At 19:56 04/19/02 -0400, you wrote:
>     Centuar Forge used to have blacksmith's coal just over the line in
>Wisconsin. Don't know if they still do.
>
>Bob Willman
>The Eagle's Anvil
>Bowling Green, Ohio
>WB8NQW