. Electric railway journal . I. T. S. Coal-Handling Plant—Weighing Offke advisable were as follows: The St. Louis Consumers CoalCompany was originally incorporated for the purpose ofsupplying coal from Worden, 111., to the Illinois TractionSystems generating station at Venice, 111. Its output ofrun-of-mine coal was larger than that needed by the gen-erating station, but to haul the excess amount to the nextstation at Riverton, III, a distance of 100 miles, would haveincreased its cost above the price at which fuel could beobtained from mines near Riverton. Hence the company•decided to carry th
. Electric railway journal . I. T. S. Coal-Handling Plant—Weighing Offke advisable were as follows: The St. Louis Consumers CoalCompany was originally incorporated for the purpose ofsupplying coal from Worden, 111., to the Illinois TractionSystems generating station at Venice, 111. Its output ofrun-of-mine coal was larger than that needed by the gen-erating station, but to haul the excess amount to the nextstation at Riverton, III, a distance of 100 miles, would haveincreased its cost above the price at which fuel could beobtained from mines near Riverton. Hence the company•decided to carry the coal to Venice, use the screenings atits generating station there and sell the rest of the outputacross the river in St. Louis, where it could be disposed ofprofitably to the retail trade. This double arrangement not only meant a saving intransportation charges, but it also met most satisfactorilythe fuel requirements of the coal trades served. The I. T. S. Coal-Handling Plant—Loading Spouts Underneath Bridge Louis coal trade demanded lump coal. At the same timebetter economy would be possible at the Venice generatingstation if screenings were supplied in sufficient quantityto make the crushing of lump coal unnecessary. The onlything lacking, therefore, was the installation of a coal-handling plant in St. Louis to remove screenings from therun-of-mine coal or lump coal transmitted a long distance. Accordingly a new coal-handling plant has been equippedto do this work, and as a result all the coal for the retailtrade in St. Louis finds a ready market because of its free-dom from screenings. The quantity of fine coal obtainedby this plan is almost sufficient to equal the demand of theVenice generating station for that kind of fuel, but someis. purchased from other mines in the vicinity of St. Louis.
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