The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-07-09
COAL ronmArtoNs OF TIN, WORLD,

vonn xVksmhAAVND VI Ahb WOthO.
The proportions Of the superficial coal
areas Of tho principal conl producing coun-
tries Of Europe and America, may 10 stated
thus:
United States, 133,l32 squares miles
British America, $4,000 square miles Great
Britain and Ireland, 1850 square miles
Spain, 3,4os square miles, France, LILO
square miles; Belgium, SIT square miles.
Thus it will be seen, that the United
States has II superficial coal area more than
three times as great as all the countries of
Europe. And it should be remembered,
too, that tho coal basins Of tho United
States arc but partially explored and de-
fined.
In regard TO production, however, the
contrast is altogether in favor Of Europe,
thus: Great Britain and Ireland produce
3l,5O0,o00 tons; belgium, 100000;
France, 4,14l,6l7; Prussia, 3,5OO,ooO;
Austria, 100; while the United States,
with coal area more than there three
times the extent Of all Europe, actually pro-
OuCeS Out 4,foo,UUO Tons.
Pennsylvania has a coal area of 437
squares miles, and yet i'll single year, that
of ls47, she produced 100000 tons-
furnishing cargocs for l ,l30 vessels, which
cleared from the single port Of Philadelphia
that year.
In 1925 few tons Of an unknown COM
bustible were brought to Philadelphia,
where its qualities were to he tested and
it's value asccrtained In 1928 the first
cargoes reached Philadelphia and Balti-
more. Since then, the Pennsylvania coal
fields have produced an aggregate Of 49,
100000 tons of coal.
Pennsylvania, as above stated, has a
coal area Of 437 miles, which in siuglc
year (ls470 produced 100000 tons Of
coal, atfording cargocs for II, ,439 vessels.
Our seaport friends, should remember this.
North Carolina, probably, will be found
to possess much larger coal area. From
the northeastern extrememity Of the Deep
River Basin to the Pee Dee is not less than
sixty miles in length, and if it should be
found to average ten miles in width, we
have coal area Of 600 square miles, or
nearly onc-ffth larger than Pennsylvania
1t should be rendered, too, that the Penn
sylvania. coal is anthracite, but medium
value, while the North Carolina coal is
bituminous, and ranks as gas coal, equal
to the finest, and will command the high
al Il, L
coast.
Mr.. McLanc, in his pamphlet referred
to ON former occasion, says that at Egypt
one ton per minute can be delivered 1000
feet from the coal pit, ut 60 cents per ton
That the capacity Of the Deep Rves Slack
Water Navigation is limited to the delivery
ut Wilmington or Slnithyille of but 1oo
tons per week. Then, according to this
authority, single shaft working ten hours
per day, can deliver upon the surface week
.Iy, 5000 tons, or about five :ilnes as much
as can be passed down the Cape Fear river.
But when dozen shafts are delivering their
$500 tons per week, it vii bc seen the
Cape Fear can afford no adequate cutie:
for their productians. The friends of the
Cheraw and Coal Fields Railroad need have
no misgivings as to the supply. We really
are at loss to say what the capacity of
the load would be, but think 600 tons
might be transported over it per day. If
so, then, Charleston would receive l67 200
tons Of the finest coal in the world annually.
With such prospect to induce the con.
struction Of the Chcraw and Coal Field.
hoad, can any one Interested in the welfare
OF our beloved Queen City hesitate to invest
to the extent OF his ability?
The recent survey of the line has shown
that it is but CT miles from Chcraw to
Egypt, and that the line of road would,
from that point, traverse the coal basin
some twenty miles in this direction. If the
capacity of the road be equal to the above
s"pposltion, and should cost 81 100000, its
income from coal alone would be SG6S 600
per annum, Or equal to one-half its cost.
we know that we are not making state.
ments with mathematical precision, but VIC
10 know that we approximate the truth,
and that our statements, if erroneous, as
probably they are, may be set Alright by
tnose having more Precise data before
them. And we beg that every friend Of
the Road, who can elucidate its value, do
30 at once. Many, we know, are in posses
sion of facts which would vastly subscrye
the cause, if they were given to the public.
We hope, therefore, to hear soon from manv
who have heretofore remained silent
Ckeras0 Gazette.
What Uncle Sam has Done.-The fol-
lowing contrast is felicitously noted by the
Brooklyn Eagle: