The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-16

Areas OF COal-NIeasures i'm the United
states.


of the United States. In connection
with it he has written some interesting
remarks, and sketch descriptive of the
coal-measures in the United States,
which, in a very short space, tells us
where coal is found in different parts of
the country, and the extent of each area
OF coal lands.
The following are the areas of the
coal-measures in the United States:
Neio England basin, in Massachusetts
and Rhode Island, estimated to cover
$50 square miles. The coal is plum
baginous anthracite, used to advantage
in some smelling furnaces. Perhaps
eleven beds may exist; best seen in
Portsmouth, II. L. The maximum thick
ness is % feet. The whole carbonifer-
GUS system is supposed to be $500 feet
thick, of which $500 pertains exclu-
sively to the coal-measures.
anthracite basins in PennsyiUdnia.-
This is the most Important coal district
III the United States. There are four
areas, having an area of 410 square
miles, not including the Broad-Top
semi-anthracite, which amounts to "a
more. The measures are from 1000 to
5000 feet thick. The number of dis
tinct beds varies from two to twenty
five, according to the depth of the basin.
The maximum amount near Pottsville Is
given at 2O7 feet, while the average can
not be far from 20 feet. ID. Rogers. }
The appalachian .feld embraces an
area of 63, 475 square miles, extending
from Pennsylvania to Alabama.
In Pennsylvania the aggregate thick
ness of the measures is from S25 to
1855 feet. The area of the bituminous
coal is 12,222 square miles, with an
average thickness of 40 feet of COAL
ca. ID. Rogers.)
In Maryland the area is $50 square
miles, in three separate basins. The
strata are 1,500 feet thick. There are
thirty-two beds in alone of II feet,
three of 6 feet each; others from l to 5
feet thick. Up. T. Tyson.)
In Virginia Chiefly West Virginia. the
coal area embraces 200 square miles.
On the Kanawha the strata are l,250
feet thick, with "a beds of Goals, of
which IL have an aggregate OF 81 feet
thickness. The Goals seem best devel-
oped on the river. S. Ridgway)
In Ohio, DR.. J. S. Newberry states
the area to be more than 10000 square
miles, with thickness of 1000 feet,
and 10 workable beds of coal, CORE
spending in number and thickness to
those of Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia.
In Eastern Kentucky the area is stated
to be 10000 square miles.
In Tennessee, Prof. j. Nj. Stafford
states the area of the measure to be
800 square miles. One characteristic
section gives Il thickness of 57S feet.
There are seven beds of coal, with a
total thickness of II feet The beds
vary locally III their dimensions, some OF
them being 9 feet thick, but thinning
out very rapidly.
In Georgia the area may be repre-
scented by 10 square miles.
In Alabama hasty measurement
would indicate an area of 5000 square
miles.
The Mchjgan basin has an area OF
600 square miles, with 125 feet OF
measures and II feet (mhximum) of coal
In the center the coal is thickest, thin
ming out to nearly the thickness of paper
around the edges.-(A. Winchell.)
The Illinois basin, including indiana
and Western Kentucky, covers an ares
of 81, 700 square miles.
In Illinois the measures occupy Al, 5O(
square miles, are from 600 to $500 fee
thick, and contain thirteen beds of coal
with an aggregate thickness of 30 feet
CA. II. Worthen.)
In Indiana the measures occupy al
area of $500 square miles, are $50 fee
thick, and contain ID beds OF coal, witt
an aggregate thickness of 81 feet.-(E
II. Cox
In Western Kentucky the measure
are 612 feet thick, including the mill
stone grit, and carry IL beds of COAL
(E. T. Cox.)
The Missouri basin extends from lows
to Texas.
In Iowa, Prof. Whites map shows al
area of $4,000 square miles, which i
divided into three parts, each about 2O
feet thick. The two lower divisions con
tain the workable coal, which amount
to 8 feet in the second, but to only 2
inches in the upper. AS the highes
division is everywhere underlaid by tn
others, the whole area must be regarde,
as workable.
In Missouri, Prof. g. G. Swallow est
mates the coal area at $1,000 squar
miles, and III Kansas at 1900 squar
miles. The measures are 1000 fee
thick, with twenty coal-beds, from fe'
inches to feet thick.
In Arkansas there seem to be only w
beds of coal, which lie below the Coz
measures proper, beneath the conglom
crate Lesquereux). ID. ID. Owen speak
of some beds from to 5 feet thick, an
estimates the area occupied by produ(
tive beds at II, 900 square miles.
In the Indian Territory little is know
of coal. The officers of the Missouri
Kansas and Texas Railway Compan
find good banks of coal at several place
along their line, several feet thick. I'll
area upon the map amounts to as muc
as 1860 square miles.
In Texas, according to a. b. Roessle
in the almanac" the coal-measurt
occupy 5000 square miles. A bed
coal has been reported near Fort Be
KNAPP. as four feet thick. Estimatin
from Hayden's map, the coal area
Nebraska at $500 square miles, the tot
area of this great basin must be 1Oi, &c
square miles. :,
In Arizona, near Camp Apache, M
G.. X. Gilbert, OF the expedition imm
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