The Grenada gazette., 1888-04-07
OUR STORE OF COAL.
Enough to supply the Whole world With
Fuel for Ages.


enough to supply the whole "orid win
The ur;tod Statos Which b,vs Iona
..a.J soanna ~ :, c.. p,;,o;n ;a
tb. list of cosl-nroJucing countries q,
tbo vo,d r,psi soor al frst E;,.
to,r ys,rs or, ,bo o,.l nro5,ction q,
tbo rinitod S,.tos was opIv one-tbird
that Of Great RETAIN. II ia now ahon,
tw,-third. a,d II il ..sv 70 conceiv.
that with tbe srormons Sepos;ts Of tho
West practic,llv vet prtnncbed this
country will in the distant future no,
onlv be .ble n sunnlv coal to a vast
nonulation At home Int will serve as =
stnrehorso to tho rsst of tbe void !,
tho time ia ever reached when their coal
denosits show SIGNS Of exbaustjon, A
report made to the Geological Survey
On this suh;ect bv Charles A. Ash.
burner piyes many interesting and
valuable facts regarding the present
output of coal. and the prospects for
future develonment The products Of
Grest Rr;t.in durng 1896 WAS 157 51s.
4s2 long tons, while that of the United
States was. including collicrv con-
sumption. l1a, 74s 4os short tons, or
about one-ouarter the total production
of the world.
Il il curious fact that while the
amount of coal handled in this country
during that year showed an increase O,
I 7sa Ss1 tons over tho re,r bafore
thoro was = d.oroaso ~ si 40 ooO in
tLo t,.aI So. roIrn lava nronort;or
- tho rroduots boin@ soid f,r
urdsr tho COST Of nroduction and
dal;vorr yot tho l,roer mar,
- tho 900, ,,inod in Wostorn pornsyl.
u.nt, Mr Ashhrrn.-d dooloroo in snito
~ .o,u,r ,,nross;or r. .,,o con.
tr,rr v.s .old ot tbs win. for mora
tb,n tbo cost of nroduction Tho dis.
coyorv ~ rotrra, ras which II wos
srrncsod ,,;rbt ofroet ,bo 5om,nd for
coaI hos only served to force if into a
w;der morLet The use of natural
gas in Western Pennsvlvoni, alone
tool tho n,,co ~ % 600 TONS Of coal a
d.r dnrina tb,t roor X 900 of tbem in
pittshnrgb Yet the bitnminous mines
Of tho Stote made a Ioroer outnut than
over boforo tho srnorior ouolitv Of the
coal GIVING if the preference in distant
m,rtets oTor local GOALS and 90 max
;rr m for tho Ealing otf in tbe home
demand.
The Pennsylvania output is nearly
two-thirds that of the entire Union.
Excluding collerv consumption, the
total output for 1886 was lO7, 6S2, ,2O9
short tons; of this Pennsylvania fur
nshed 62,S57, ,210 tons, S6,696, AIS an
thracite and 26, 100, 1856 bituminous.
Next to PENNSYLVANIA comes Illinois
with 0,a46, 1856 tons, and Ohio with
s,425,2l1; Iowa and West Virginia are
about on a level, with something over
100000 tons each. After Indiana
with 5000. 900 and MARYLAND with
2,517,577 tons, no State produced as
much as 1000, 900 tons. tits worthy of
note as showing that we are still in the
mere infancy of our coal production,
that only s.272,5Ol short tons were
produced during 1886 in what is called
the Western coal field, stretching from
the Mississippi to the Rocky mount
aims, the best of it, by Che way, being
mined IN the Indian Territory; yet
the coal area there is greater than that
of any other coal field in the United
States. The Goals are Of great variety,
and underle fertile agricultural
country destined in time to bear an
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