The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-03-07
w hat.Others Think.

The Lexington Gazette, of the Goth, ha
the following reference to the Stauntol
and West Augusta Railroad Company. re
Gently organized in this place. We be
r !ieve, with the Gazette, that the Nortl
Mountain range will be found to contain
! valuable deposits, in VEINS of coal. anC
that in the future this will be so clearly
developed that the wonder will be our
people have 80 long remained Indifferent
to it. Work is now going on at Buffalo
Gap with every indication to justify the
conclusion that coal will be found in
Elliot's Knob. proving that the North
mountain coal is regular formation, Ca
pable of wonderful development The
Gazette gays;
! The organization ofthe Staunton and West
! Augusta r, Il. at Staunton a few days ago. with
| a capital of 81 100000, backed by some of the
best business men OF that section, would seem
to us to confirm, in large part the opinions ex-
pressed by the Gazette two years ago that there
were large deposits of anthracite coal in the
Gosh en- neighborhood. since the object Of the
organization of that company is announced to
be the building OF a railroad to develop the
anthra cite coal fields in the northwestern
part of Augusta, which is directly on the same
line ofmountai ps where the supposed anthra-
cite coal deposits were found near Goshen.
We do only hope that valuable coal may be
found in large bodi es in this Stale. 1t would
be bonanza to any organization and would
bring the price offuel down
Able biologists have expressed the opinion
that anthracite in large deposits is to be found
at the points indi cated.
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English Speakidg Races.
One hundred years ago the En- glish-speaking
people of the world numbered about 15,Go0,O0O
"This is avery liberal estimate says Mr.. Glad
stone, in his article on 1.-The Future of the
English speaking Races" pub lished by the
Youths Companion of Boston. Taking account
of the speakers of Welsh Gaelic. and Erse, |
there were about II 100000 neutrality-suspicious. in |
Great Britain century ago. and about 3 900 900 |
in a America and other foreign lands.
There are now abort 105. 900 900 English-speak- |
ers in the world, q seven-fold incs ease in one |
hundred years. If the rate be kept up to 1000 |
A. d. there will then be $4,000. 600 of English
speakers in the world. AS the race possesses |
lands capable of sustainini even much |
larger population in comfort, there is little |
reason to douot that Its rate of multiplication |
viii be maibtiaued.
Il
number of objections against the probability
that the people of tbs United State Will multi
ply as rapidly as hereto fore, estimates that
they will, in 1887, number between $50 0G0, eco |
and $50. 100000 This would be nine-fold in
crease in the coming century, but the Ameri-
leans increased between twelve and thirteen
fold between 1880 and 1880, the date of the last
census.
Imagination staggersa at the magnitude of the
figures in Mr.. Gladstones estimate. But he
''The astonishing increase already
realized leaves room for future wonder. |
And what is most of all curious, is that tho
was not unforeseen"
In II 90 Capt. g. INLAY. an American who had
been appointe to make examination of the
mated that they would in 1892, number
"a ,000,0 600. The pace has been little better
than that Capt. Imlays prediction was of
course, more doubted when published than Mr..
Gladstone's will be to-day. He says:
"Mr. Bar ham Zincke, well known writer
astonished the world in 1883 by most inter-
estins tract. in which he enGeavored to esti.
mate the probable numbers of the English
speaking races all over the world a century |
after publication. de estimated the aggregate |
at l.Ge0o ,00G. BY tine simple process of dupli-
cation in every twenty-five years, he placed |
the share OF the United States in A. d. 1890 at |
Soo,000,0 eco. He gave to the British Islands i
70.000.e9o, or nearly double what they had at the
time when he wrote, no unreasonable assump-