The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-12-06
Coal and Where il is Found.
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Sir Alexander Murray has made the i'm
purtant discovery Of an extensive coal field
At St Georges Bay, Newfoundland He
has ascertalned the existence of several
workable seams ot coal Of a superior de
scrption, the extent ~ which can only be
determined by boring. Much Of it ap-
pears to be camel coal. So valuable for the
manufacture Of gas. One seam is three
feet IN thickness. and only few miles
from the coast The coal area is twenty
or thirty miles long by ten wide, the act
being an oval, forming the center Of t.c
country, bounded by the seacost on the
north ard the ridge Of primary hills on
the south The Importance Of a coal field
in such a position as this Is very great
This, however, is not the only coal region
IN Newfoundland On the northeastern
shore If Grand Lake are found precisely
similar beds to those forming the south
side " s. Georges Bay. Here the ex-
istence II seam three feet thick is re
ported II Is easy Of access from the head
uf White Bay Not far from the St
Georges Bay coal field Is Carn mountains
u the neighborhood of which fragments
III magnetic iron have been found. lead
ing T. the belief that this valuable ore will
be found IN place and in renuneratiyc
quantities.
COAL rs AUSTRIA.
Austria contains such large deposits Of
coal wealth that naturally she may be re-
garded as one Of the richest coal produc-
ing nations Of Europe. Silesia, Gallicia
and Bohemia are said TO contain deposits
Of coal sufficient to supply the whole con
g.
but this is rather tall talk, although the
coal wealth Of the districts named is con
siderable. Ii is only recently that this
coal wealth has been turned to profitable
account Industry IS no, IN an advanced
state IN Eastern Europe, and the scattered
population of the districts in question have
only been recently united with each other
and with Central Europe BY the great and
over extended railway network Of the
present epoch During the last twenty
years not unmportant material progress
has been achieved, however, especially Mo
ravia, Silesia, and Bohemia. where dense
and labOrious population has resolutely
embarked in the great industrial move
ment Of modern times
COAL n MICHIGAN.
From the report Of the State Geological
Survey Of Michigan, we learn that the coal
bearing strata has been indicated as fol-
lows 1t forms the north part Of Jackson
county, overlaps the northeast corner Of
Calhoun county and the northwestern cor
uer II WRshtonaw county, and cover
parts ef Eaton, Inhan., Livingston, Ionia,
Clinton, Shiawasse, and Genessee counties,
and the west half Of Tuscola 1t also COW
ers part Of Saginaw, Gratiot, Montcalm,
Bay, Midland, Isabella and Mecasta coun-
ties and the south part Of Osceola, Glare
and Baldwin counties are included within
the area in which productive coal beds can
be expected. This space amounts to about
10, 600 square miles.
FORT RICHMOND, PHILA.
One If the largest Of the coal shipping
points at tide water, at which the Anthra-
cite coal IS received and shipped, is that
known as Port Richmond, situated on the
Delaware River, Just above the city Of
Philadelphia. The extent Of facilities for
receiving, storing handling, and shipping
coal, are all first class, as the business done
Will show, the wharfs and piers are all
owned by the Philadelphia and Reading
Road CO. BY the iron steam collieries Of
this company, shipments may now be made
at all seasons Of the year.
COAL IN PANAMA.
Extensive coal fields have been found i'll
the middle of the Isthmus, between Pana-
ma and Aspinwall and in communication
with the Atlantic by the Rio Indio. Coal
is found on both sides of the Isthnus wa
ter shed. A hill entirely composed Of coal
has been found not many hours sail from
Panama, on the Pacific coast The speci-
mems brought and tested at the gas works
have showed it to be of very promising
quality. This cropping out Of coal strata
is not far from the town and riverof Vile
de los Santos.
COAL IN BRAZIL.
The neighborhood Of San Jeronymohav-
ing been explored, the result was the dis
covery of two splendid seams of coal meas
uring in the one case feet inches, in
the other, feet 10 inches, which must
yield immense quantities Of good gas and
steam fuel. To facilitate the transports of
the coal to Port Allegro, railway about
nine miles in length has been constructed
COAL AS A FUEL.
As fuel, coal has been long used the
Chinese, forerunners in most discoveries.
knsw its value centuries ago in their own
country the Romans are known to have
used it, and from the 18th century to the
present date an ever increasing trade in
that most important Of minerals. As long
ago as in Edward the Sixth's reign, 1862,
coal was sent to France, and letter, Of
that speaks that thinge that France can
1--WE no more without, than the fysh with
out water that is to say, NEWCASTLE
coles which without they can neither make
steel worke, nor METAL worke, nor wyre
worke, nor goldsmythe worke nor gonnes,