The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-12-17
Our Coal Fields and Manufactures.

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I can see no prospect. VIM. E. c.
Our Coal Fields and Manufactures.
From the New York Shipping List.
Among the latest discoveries of Goa
in this country is q wonderful deposit
in the Territory of Wyoming, lying i'm
mediately west of Nebraska, and com
prising a portion of the Rocky Noun
tains. This coal belt extends along the
Pacific Railroad, distance of three
hundred miles. The quality is said t.
fully equal Lehigh coal, yielding tel
thousand feet of gas to the ton The
workings at various places show the
vein to be thirty to forty feet deep.
company is taking out 5000 tous pc
month, and the article is selling at the
low rate of sey enty-five cents to one dol
lar per ton. The Central Pacific are
using it on the eastern end of theil
road. Prof. Hayden: United States
Geologist, who has lately returned from
| Wyoming. where he has been prosecut
ing his geological investigations, speaks
in high terms of that Territory. Not
only does it contain immense Goa
fields, but iron ore exists in great abund.
ance, while careful test of the soil on
the hills and valleys shows that there is
no part Of the Territory that would not
yield, by irrigation, forty bushels OF
wheat per acre.
The vast and IneXhaustible coal fields
Of the United States are among tho ,oa ost
important of all forms of our latent
wealth. These fields have recently been
estimated at two hundred thOsand
square miles, and, though stupendous,
it is evident, from the frequent devel-
opment Of new sources, that the esti-
mate IS moderate one.
The Importance of this incompatible
store Of concentrated mechanical force
will be realized only when taken in con
nection with the immense extent of fer.
tile lands within our national limits
which are capable of sustaining an i'm
mense manufacturing, as well as agri-
cultural population. It adds greatly to
the significance of the facts, that the
rich land and the rich mines are to SO
large extent in close proximity In the
great cOal-felds of Illinois, Indiana.
Kentucky, scores of thousands of square
miles of exuberantly productive land
overhe a weight of coal exceeding, by
many fold, all that of the British isles.
OF excellent quality, and easily procured.
Here, amid almost boundless corn and
wheat fields, a system of manufacturing
is sure to arise, such as the world has
never yet seen. In the Missouri and
Arkansas basin, as well as in Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland and Virginia immense
quantities of coal are associated with
lands of great fertility The period
when a great manufacturing enterprise
shall be established in these states. de-
ponds mainly upon the states themselves.
Once established in such prolific re-
glons, manufacturing industries will
not, like those of other manufacturing
countries, be in a state of dependence
upon distant and foreign countries for
food, England now being obliged to
supplement her natural DEFICIENCIES the
importation of food for her workers. to
the amount of four hundred millions of
dollars per anUum. Having in abund-
ance the power, food, iron, copper, lead
cotton, the ability to produce an ade-
quate supply of wool, and an unlimited
scope for population, then there is moth
ing to prevent the United States from
becoming, IN due time, the foremost
manufacturing nation on the face of
the globe. Other countries, having the
start of us, we shall have to make many
sacratices before We can take our proper
rank: but, with steady advances in
favor of those less elementary occupa-
tons that ut once characterize and
largely constitute civilization, will anon
bring ample recompense.
OF Ex-Governor William T. Packer
who recently died, it is said that he had
a collection of coins, ancient and mod
ern, second only to one other in the
country. His cabinet of coins is said
to be worth from SO, to $4,000
This immense collection he had made
with great labor and sacrifice of time
and money. During the laying of a
pavement near his house, three years
ago, he was daily seen walking along the
streets, where the wOrkmen had made
excavations and thrown up the ground.
looking for coins, and in this way found