Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1890-11-20

Lehigh company shipped Al 900 tons;
225. 900 in 1870 and 72a.oe0 in 1880. In
1887 Pennsylvania produced S4,641 ,0o7
tons Of anthracite and about $4,000, 900
tons Of bituminous. Then came the great
strike, and Immediately after it natural
gas, and for figures on the actual effects
we must await this years census. Such
is the marvellous history which the state
is TO celebrate next year.
1t is queer that mankind was 50 slow
TO discover the value Of coal, though
Theophrastus mentions the fact that the
smiths of ancient Ellis used sort OF
stone for their FORCES which he called
''ithanthrax." The Romans cut roads
aud aqueducts through the coal beds Of
France and never used the mineral.
In England il was certainly used as early
as A. d. $50, but the discovery of Gin
ders indicates that the Britons used it
before the Roman occupation. 1t was
burned in London as early as 1900, and
in 1888 only 81, 600 tons of iron were
made with coal 1t is now estimated
that the power created by buruang coal
in Great Britain is equz to the labor Of
COO 600 900 men, and that is but one
third the amount used by the world, the
United States now being nearly or quite
equal TO the mother country.
In the cotton industry the western ma
tons were still slower, and the first
really successful American crop was
grown in South Carolina in 1890 Yet it
Is known that the cotton manufactures
Of India fourished some 40 years B. c.,
and the indications are that the business
had continued long before that. as time
would be required to bring il to perfec-
ton. The civilized people OF Europe i'm
ported cotton goods from India for cent
uries before establishing manufactures
of their own, AMI contrary to what is
generally believed. the manufacture in
England is but little older than in
America.
In 1889 Samuel Slater came from Eng
land TO Pawtucket, p. l., bat was not
allowed to bring any machinery with
him. az the doctrine Of protection then
included the export OF machinery as well
as the import of goods. Amy & Brown.
Of Pawtucket. advanced the means. AID
he made the machinery from memory
starting it July IL. 1920. he had previ-
ously tried New York and Philadelphia,
but no one would venture. He remained
an enterprisins man to the end Of his
life. and after acquiring fortune spent
$40. 1000 ia perfecting the turnpike system
Of New England II is also claimed that
he founded the first Sunday school in
America.
Capt. Henry f. jerks. Of Pawtucket,
who il organizing the centennial. pro
poses that every cotton manufacturing
firm in the United States shall furnish
one stone 70 make a monument for Stat
81. TO be surmountsd BY bis stst8e. Tho
growth Of tho manufacture has been re-
markedly regular for seventy years. the
war era excepted. and toe ratio q home
consumption to exported rsw cotton has
varied bat slightly for twenty years. In
1870 there were n. s21 .l47 spiadles nm
ming IN ths United States. employing
Isl SO persons. bat The increase since
has ben very great. ID the south ths
number doubled ia seven Years. the pro
dact berg worth szi Co COO Ia 1880 snd
as. 0oo 90 IN 1857. The Price - raw
cotton AsSo TrJws usore steady a. TIE
srsA Il psoaaceoo Increases. a variation
~ two oeuts IN Tesr bsing now rsrs
vbers vsrfstiozs = fre 81 ten cents we're
oonmen drtY Tesrs 40.
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