New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-14

Gently published reports, is presen'ed o. the o'h-'
coal districts, followed by tables OF 2s2 Analyses
gathered from various sources. An essay succeeds
upon the coal districts Of Great Britain AMI Ire
land, with the statistics OF their production. Coii
is then treated through many pages IS t. lie COM
position, it, varieties and the conditions that anect
its economical value. This part OF the "orA Is
particularly important and the subject Is treated 10
| la detail and with great ability. la 10 work can
valuable treatise upon coal be FUND Is 10 inc
. II pages devoted 10 this department. The methods
pursued IN Pennsy wanna Of searching Tor, opening
and mining cssl are next described. With the aid
OF appropriate illustrations; Their the history oil us
| application as fuel, comparison OF the areas ana
probable workable quantities of coal in the Ameri
can and European coal fields. aud the wora closes
with The statistics of production. In the ln'roine-
ton of the report, the physical geography of the
State, lis natural divisions, It's scenery, hydro
grspby. river systems and clmatology are discussed
with the same thoroughness and ability which
characterize the rest of the WORK.
The State has waited long for this report,
and much dissatisfaction has been expressed
that . great work, undertaken early In loS6,
should have produced none bur the most
mesger results nearly up 10 the year lco9.
Causes of the repeated delays IN the publication are
stated il the historical sketch of the work in the
preface From this it is apparent that By bad
management and misfortunes the public and the
author have alike suffered. Those familiar with
the whole history Of the survey know that there
were other causes also delaying the publication,
and that the Penn syvsn;ans now feel, that though
the final result is this admirable series of treatses,
which does the highest credit to American science,
they have paid dearly for it. They fel. during the
progress of the survey. ID The appearance of the
unsatisfactory annual reports that the interests of
the STATE were not consulted, and thar the most
useful information was neither presented as col
lecied in the reports of the assistants dgested
TO furnish conclusions of importance 10 the material
benefit of the State. swear after year passed away
the mining details and statistics lost much Of their
value BY their age; and in 1851 and again in $50,
there was little heart TO make appropriations 10
revise and publish data deposited with the Secre-
tary of the Comm 1nwealth in ls47. There was
also feeling, shared by all those who had been
engaged upon she survey assistants, the justice
of which 10 seen throughout the great report, that
the only interest consulted in the work was the
reputation of the chief himself. Upon the other
State geological surveys, and upon the United
States Coast Survey, the assistants eojoy the
reputation derived from their own reports; but
in the PENNSYLVANIA survey their names are merely
given in the preface of the report, and no mention
j. made of the special share each performed in the
work, of the discoveries they made, and of the
methods they invented and applied of tracing out,
identifying and delineatiDg the various mineral beds
and formations The author refers to the meager and
ephemera annual reports for all this, end adds that
to attempt precise history of the abors OF each,
would beside being somewhat invdous lead hun
into toe minute and tedious narrative. This III
Justice is strongly protested against by the author
of the Iron Manufacturers Guide, in the preface
of this new work, which We shall presently pre-
ceed 10 notice. Referring to this report, and the
parts performed by those who aided 10 It's prepara-
ton, be states that /" his own name has been erased
from the map of Pennsy lvania. which he alone con-
structed and compiled from the thirteen great
tons across the State, the very style of which he
was obliged to invent from all the vertical sections
of the coal measures, which he was the first to
propose and alone executed, from the hundreds Of
illustrations Of the geology of the State which he
| redrew: and 20 add insult To injury, his
name is attached once, and only once, and that in
common with two other names, 10 the map Of the
Anthracite Coal Region with which he had moth
ing whatever TO do, never having seen il until it
I r.
TO these maps and to the report ITSELF the nscrip-
ton of the copyright notice in the name of the sur
yeyor employed to prepare them for the State.
THE IRON MANUFACTURERS GUIDE TO THE FUR
NACEs, FORCES, AND ROLLING MILLS OF The
UNITED STATES WITH DISCUSSIONS OF IRON AS
MANI FACrtRED ARTICLE IN COMMERCE AND
IN HISTORY, By j. Lesley Secretary oL the AmeIi'
Iron Association. Joha Wiley. syo. PIP. no.
This work has been prepared b. the author
acting under authority of the American Iron
Association. For several years past he BIAS
been engaged in collecting data-trayeling over
the ironproducing districts Of the Northern and
Middle States, and embodying the information
in reports to the Association. some of whi:h,
on the varieties and distribution of the iron ores,
and the statistics of the manufacture, have already
been published Theie, with much Uew matter,
make up the present volume. A. a geologst
the author has acquired a deseryedly high repu-
taton. He joined the geological corps Of Penn
sylysDis in 1899, and for several years after
the corps was disbanded was engaged in the col
lection of &C ditionsl data and preparation of the
maps that illustrate the final report. In . late
treatise Of his, entitled Coal snd its Topography"
the principles developed b. the assistants on this
survey, setting forth the close relationship dscoy
cred he,Meen the outlines of the surface and tha