The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-06-12
ENGLAND AND AmRasoA

dOAhtN ENehNNp avn h"h WsNA
An important article on the "Cost aud
CONSUMPTION Of Coal' appeared In ih,
April number OF the Edingburgh Review
Tho writer enters quite exha usliyely Into
all the phases ofa question which Is OF the
hlinpst interest 10 oil classes ofihe English
people, and which In q less degeee con-
Germs most other civilized Countries. The
exlensiv coal measures ofGreat Britain, \
the wonderful extent 10 which they have
been utilized, have given to that country
its supremacy In manufactures, and un-
quostionably It's supremacy Ia mannlao'
lures has been the foundation Of Its COM
mercial greatness, aud led TO the amassing
Of that immense reserve Of capital which
makes London the principal financial GEN.
ire Of the world. Thus a plentiful sup ply
OF cat bonaccous fuel thoroughly developed
through persistence for ce INJURIES In the
maintenance of u protective tariff, raised
An Island possessing no other particular
advantages TO be the first OF c0inmcrcial
aud maritime powers. None know better
than the English themselves that an album
dance Of cheap coal has been the primary
cause of their prosperity, and that so soon
rs they are no longer able to obtain cheap
coal in the constantly increasing amour
demanded by their furnaces, factories,
and steam marine the sceplre which Eng
land has welded so long must pass to
some other country. They clearly per
oeivc, too, that the inevitable heir to the
comm mercial crown must be the Uaited
States. Its estimated that In 1871, M
600 900 tons of coal were mined in Great
Britain, of which 1902, 600 tons wer'
shipped to foreign countries. OF the lat
ter, 2, l9l $40 tons were sent to Franco
and about 100000 were mined in
France besides. Whit seems far more as
ionishing, England exported million o
tous across the Atlantic TO South America
in the same year.
We venture to predict however, that |
will never again export so great nm amour
OF fuel to any part Of the Western hemis
phere. for South America is now being
largely supplied from the United Statec
The writer of the article under consd
Grafton gives warning that the time is no
far distant when England must begin t
import fuel, and points out the connirie
from which such imports can best be IN de
mentioning the United States particularly
as "the greatest resource for coal in tn
future Nor is he forgetful Of the fac
that with tho necessity for resoriing to
foreign countries for fuel, tho commerc
supremacy of England must pass to GU
own country. lie says;
"let us contrast our case with that oil
the United States, Tint vast region has
apresent population of not much NOR
than 80, 100000 for the census of 1870 re
turned ii as 3S,65S,37l. Last year accord
ing to recent advice the total produc
ton of coal in the States was Al ,i9l III
tons. In 1865 the total production in thu
United States was l,324,2O7 tons, and o
anthracite 1l,5S2,732 tons, altogeihe
making 22,S56 930 tons, and the capita
thus employed in coal mining Throughout
the United States is S40,00O,00O, Will
the capital invested in railroads and ca
nails penetrating the coal fields, mad
principally for their development ant
sustained by the coal trade, nmounte'
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Ths conrse ot monufac,ur;nv suprema
CIV, of wealth, and of power is directed b,
coal. That wonderful mineral, OF the pos
Session y, Mh ,i,, Eng',sh'nen ,aso n''n' |;
no notsrn roai;,o,;on of,ha nh;Io.onher'
stone This chemical result Of primeva
vegetation has been the means, by it
abundance, OF raising TINS county 10 a.
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