The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 26, 1909, Page 8

sissies ole | THE STAR—TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1909. ¢ 3 Story of a Coal Should GET GRAND ibe COAL FROM Tit shat RiDGt MINE; ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE That You QLD TIMERS KNOW ALL ABOUT IT Old timers in Seattle know the old Seattle Coal & Iron Co., which probably was better known as the Issaquah Coal Co., which for up- wards of twenty years operated the Grand Ridge & Issaquah mines at and near Issaquah. They remember the shipping bunkers at Smith Cove, and local bunkers at the foot of Madison street. They know all about the coal because they have used it. — wee ee ' | | mine for the past six years. You could not sell them a pound of any other kind of coal and make them believe that it was Grand Ridge, but that does not help the new comers, and to them we want to tell the balance of the story. UR MOTTO will be as it was during the five years that we handled Coal, “One Price, One Quality of Co F All of the Time.” Now you know who we are and you want to get on our list. care of our old customers first and the balance to new comers. They know that the | company closed its office here and went out of busi- ness, and that a pick has not been struck in the NEW COMERS MUST LEARN ABOUT IT The reputation of Grand Company” and for years the product of other local mines was sold under that name, coal was not being. mined, operated by the Central Coal Company. They have tried to per- suade the Grand Ridge Coal Company to discontinue the use of : a tidge coal was too valuable | an asset to lie idle with the | mine. A company was in- corporated under the name” of “The Grand Ridge Coal” which was none of our busi” ness so long as it did not affect us, and Grand Ridge” But now it is different. The i Grand Ridge mine has been ” purchased from the Issaquah, company and is now being? _ S88 Ses S SRERESESE SeeroseBae &_ that name, without success, and we take this opportunity to inform ) 1 you that the Grand Ridge Coal Company has neither the moral There is but The name has been in use for upwards of | twenty years. There is still enough coal in the mine to last twenty | | years and you will have the opportunity of getting it from the | | owners of the mine. nor legal right to sell you any coal as Grand Ridge. one Grand Ridge mine. We are going to First come, first served. We ask a our old customers to send in their applications for approximately what they will use during the year, that we can figure on taking care of them. CENTRAL COAL COMPANY Cc. J. SMITH Sunset, Main 659--- —_— Rid CRARY BUILDING, Fifth and Union TELEPHONES _ - At present the deliveries will be made from team track, Northern Pacific. Union and Latona district will be supplied from our bunkers now being built at Latona J = ; Later a A. S. KERRY a | -Independent 4341 1