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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:


> We are on the edge of coal country here and so coal is
> pletiful, easily had, 
> and cheap.  We keep a few sacks of coal and when we need or
> want to burn some 
> of that iffy, damp wood, we put a few lumps of coal under
> it and it all  burns 
> quite well.


I have coal on my land (part of it is a reclaimed coal mine)  There are a 
couple of places in the woods where locals used to run shafts into the side 
of the hill and make cooperative mines for their own use.
I have plenty of wood, especially oak, that needs to be cut.  But this just 
occurred to me, are there advantages to coal that I might want to mine some 
of it for my own use?
Van Dell