The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-28
Goal Is Still Coming.

Winter is gradually approaching anu tne
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer appears 10 be getting
scared. Since it has been deprived Oh tne
municipal mercantile advertising WIN
the exit of Treasurer Bsrdsley IL seoii' W
anticipate hard times. Vivid recoHec'ionS
of that cold day last spring when SO many
good republican officials got left apparently
cause tho editor to shake in his professional
shoes.
Somehow he has got the idea that tne coai
is giving out and he begins to croaA iAe 'ulS'
Gan the coal regions are becoming e&-
bapsted ut a rate not dreamed OF by the
| consumer living comfortably IN the city,
who seems to think the supply OF anthra-
cite will keep up indefinitely.
A ton Of anthracite coal con-
.oi,s betwaen thirty-eight and
forty-two cubic feet. Any one with an
aptitude for figures can calculate that the
coal sent TO market in the present year
alone would make pile thirty feet high
and thirty feet wide throughout. extending
$40 miles long. or nearly as far as from
Philadelphia to Pittsburg. The mind Is
hardly able TO comprehend the magnitude
of this operation. But it is well known that
not over 40 per cent of the contents OF
coal tract is ever sent TO market. The
remainder has to be left in the mine in
pillars or is mixed with slate or else is
ground to powder in the breaker and thrown
upon the culm bank. The area actually
exhausted each year would make pile
thirty feet high, thirty feet wide, extending
from New York to Chicago. A hole of this
size is being made in the ground every
year. The time is rapidly coming when
this valuable product can no longer be
wasted
Doesn't that make your teeth chatter
through the summer perspiration and cause
small icicles to slide down your spinal
column!
That sort of talk reminds one of the coun-
try lad who had never been around enough
to render the scope of his vision very broad.
Consequently when he had climbed upon
his fathers barn one fine day he could not
repress an exclamation of establishment at
"what big world this is.
Evidently the Inquirer writer regards
Pennsylvania as a very large part OF the
globe. Even Newcastle is practically left
out Of account in his calculations. Yet
there is q vague tradition extant that coal
is sometimes for sale there.
Just across the Pennsylvania line, over
in West Virginia and parts OF Ohio, almost
every farmer is his own coal miner and has
his individual local bank" on his premises,
TO say nothing of the extensive mercantile
collieries in almost every state in the union,
and the mountains of coal as yet unopened
and untouched.
Nor has the writer duly taken into &C
count the practical and handy economic ar
rangements that provident nature long ago
perfected and has constantly kept in full
operation for the formation of coal deposits
to replace what we may from time to time
consume.
With renewed protestations of sympathy
for the shattered condition of his nervous
system and his gloomy republican habit of
"viewing with alarm" various and sundry
occurrences the MORNING NEWS wishes to
extend to the Philadelphia gentleman the
soothing assurance that the coal supply of
this country is ample to keep him warm
| both ere and hereafter. Editor Singerly
should send him load.