The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-09-24
T'utal.

III Michigan having 5000
II Missouri having coo
Total, 1882 "
OF this Illinois has the largest surface,
being one third of the whole; but her
mining lands are undeveloped. Illinois
contains A3,96O square miles, equal to
%, l34,4OO acres. The greatest devel-
opments have been made in the mines
of Pennsylvania. The greatest amount
of capital and labor has been spent on
them, and in providing by canals and
railroads conduits to market. These
mines also have been in course Of work
ing for the longest period. The areas in
this state, occupied by anthracite, semi
btuminous Goals, are equal to 1878, $50
acres; over tnethIrd of the superfices of
Pennsylvania are thus covered by pro-
ductlve coal formations a proportion
more than three times greater relative
ly than Great Britain, the most produc.
tive Of the European countries.
The production and use of coal in this
country is Of very late date. The first
anthracite coal found its way from
Pottsville to Philadelphia in the year
1912, only forty years ago; from the
Lehigh region in 1911; from Wilkes
barre in 1929. The first bltuminous
coal reached tide water down the Sus-
quehanna only in 1901, less than half
century since.
In England coal has been consumed
for fuel from the beginning of the thr-
teenth century. In Scotland, only from
the close Of the last century. In France,
from the beginning Of the fifteenth cen
fury; and in Belgium from the year l l9S
The Belgian coal mines, therefore, are
of most ancient date as to their work
ing.
The coal of Pennsylvania lies on the
surface, or nearly so, an advantage
which the coal of Europe does not pos
sess, as that has to be dug out from very
low depths. The strata of the great
bltumnous coal region of the Allegheny
mountains close y approXimates to hor-
izontal state. No coal region in the
world offers more ready facilities for
cheap mining than does that of Penn
sylvania, where it is found rather on the
surface, and very insignificant depth
below it. The great Allegheny or APP
palachean coal field extends through
eight States, $50 miles long, and 173
broad at its greatest breadth, but aver
aging breadth of 50 miles, giving an
area Of 65 900 square miles Of bitumi-
nous coal.
The three divisions of the are of an
thracitc coal formations in Pennsylvania
are the
Square miles. Acres.
Southern or Sckuylkill coal re-
giOu, 3Gl 1Ol 800
Middle Coal District, including
the Maaony and Shamokin, to
the Lrhigh. ll5 73,G0O
Wyoming, Wlliesbarrc, a id
Lackuwanua OF Northern re-
sion, lis 1920
The coal fields of British America are
equal to an area OF $4,000 square miles.
The coal fields IN Europe have been
estimated as follows
Great Britain, / $50 square miles.
Spain, 3,iOS square miles.
France, 1919 square miles
Belgium, 5lS square miles.
But the actual yearly pro duct Of coal
in different countries is as follows:
Great Britain, 81 800 900 tons.
Belgium, l,9GO,OOO tons.
Unrel States, l,4OO.00O tons.
France, 4,ll0, 900 tons.
These facts are worth preserving for
future reference.
G-At the Fourth OF July celebra-
ton in Marion county, Illinois, young
lady offered the following toast-"The
Young men of An erica their arms Our
support-our arms their reward.' Fall
in men, fail in.
ga genuine horned snake, with
sting in its tail, has been captured in
Appomatox county, Va, and will be
sent to the Smithsonian Institute, at
Washington.
L. The New York Refiners consume
every day nearly one thousand hogs
heads of raw sugar, and it is stated that
one firm alone consumed, last year, for
ty million pounds.
~ Henry Ward Bcecher says "there
is great deal more Gospel in loaf of
bread sometimes, than in an old dry