Excerpt from The South Wales Coal Annual for 1908: Comprising Steam, Bituminous, and Anthracite Coal, Coke, and Patent Fuel; Wages, Prices, Freights, Exports, Docks, Railways Wagons, Pitwood, and General Statistics The South Wales Coal Annual was originated in 1903, with the object, firstly, of bringing foreign coal buyers more closely in touch with the development, the working, and the transport of the production of the great South \vales Coalfield, Steam, Bituminous, and Anthracite. The second object was to provide, in a compact and easily accessible form, the information as to wages, rates, shipment charges and. Freights required by the Coal Owner, the Exporter, the Shipowner, and the large number of business and professional men whose interests are connected with the Coal Trade. 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.