Newcastle in Britain is a coal mining, distributing and selling hub. Hence the phrase "carry coal to Newcastle" or "Sell coal in Newcastle" is used to describe a foolhardy or pointless action.
People who have tried
Timothy Dexter, an American businessman, did export coal to Newcastle during a miners strike and thus made a killing for himself.
Coal mining in the state may be said to date from 1848, when small outcroppings of lignite were worked to some extent along the banks of the Cowlitz.
There was lots of money in coal, they had the coal, but they did not have the capital with which to build the roads, barges, cars and tugs necessary to transport that coal to the anxiously waiting market.
Newcastle was reached by the company with its rails, engines and cars February 5, 1878, and the same day a train with fifty tons of coal was brought from the mine to town.
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