Show CHEAP COAL FOR THE COAST It Went Begging and Was Bought For 91 Per Ton San Francisco Cal May 4Twenty five hundred tons of coal from TOnquin recently brought to this port by the British ship Somali were today bought lat auction by a local coal brpker for 1 per ton The shipment of the coal to San Francisco appears to have been a most unprofitable transaction The coal was taken by steamer from Ton quin to Hong Kong at a cost of 3 per ton From Hong Kong to San Francisco on the Somali the rate was about 2 per ton and the duty 75 cents Coal of this kind appears noc to commend com-mend itself to the San Francisco buyer for it went begging for a purchaser for several L weeks until finally i brought |