Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-15

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SANTA FE, DENVER, AND BLACK HILLS
MERIDIAN.
July 17-Warmer.
July 1S-Storm wave on this meridian.
July 13-Wind changing.
July 20-Cooler and clearing.
July 2l-Fuir and cool.
July Collaborating.
July 2o-Warmer.
GALVESTON, KANSAS cit AND MINNIE
POLLS MERIDIAN.
July T-Moderating.
July 1S-Warmer.
July 19-Storm wave on this meridian.
July 2O-Wind changing.
July 2l-Cooler and clearing.
July 22-Fair and cool.
July 2,-Moderating.
ATLANTA, CINCINNATI AND LANSING
MERIDIAN.
July 17-Fair and ccol.
July 1s-Moderating.
July l3-Warmer.
July 2O-Storm wave on this meridian.
July 21-Wind changing.
July 22-Cooler and clearing.
July 23-Fair and cool.
Coal and Cn b,n Notes.
In ordsr to form a % to so foot coal
vein from vegetation would require 200
to 400 feet of fallen vegetable decay.
The vegetation from which biologists
declare coal is derived grows in swamps
where there is an abundance of water.
but not sufficient to cover the vegetation<
entirely while it is growing. Therefore,
in order to produce even 2IO feet of the
conforming vegetation, the surface of
the swamp water would necessarily have
to gradually rise Mt least fifty feet, as
the vegetable decay would accumulate,
otherwise the vegetation would soon be
high and dry above the water, where
it would not grow.
1t would not do to say that this vege-
tation began to crow and accumulate
ut the bottom of u lake fifty feet deep,
gradually filling up the lake with the
vegetable remains, for that class of
vegetation will not grow in such a lake.
Biologists say that hard coali is formed
of soft coal by volcanic heat and great
pressure. In this they are probably
correct. Then the hard coal is formed
by the heat and pressure driving off the
water and the lighter oils of the soft
coal. In that case all the dirt, the in
combustibles, the gravel, rock, pyrites
of iron, etc., would remain in the hard
coal and we would have u greater proc
portion to the ton of this dirt in hard
than in soft coal. But every person who
has used hard and soft coal knows that
Ii proportion of ash or dirt in the hard
coal is not more than one-half what it is
in soft coal.
This is positive evidence, irrefutable.
that instead of coal being formed of
vegetation in u swamp it fell as cos
mical dust. The heavier forms would
settle quickly in deep water, and there
fore We have the hard coal with but lit
tie ash or dirt in it. The lighter forms
would float longer, settle slower, reach
h shallow waters ear the shore, and
contain more dirt than the anthracite or
hard coal.
When u coal beds were deposited
the Mississippi Valley was the shallow
part of the seas, as the south end Of
Bafin's Bay now is the shallow part
and near the shores. and the region Of
New York and Pennsylvania hard coal
was in the deep sea. On this line of
thought nothing but harmony is found,
while on the vegetable line of coal form
ations oil is chaos.
Almost universally tirc-clay is found
under beds of coal, and instead of it be-
mig IL vegetable producing clay, it, as a
RUE, fell on vegetable growth, smother.
ilfg and killing it. In northern ATTITUDES
this clay is found under great masses
of carbonite, the two deposits being in
and covered with great masses Of solid
glacier ice, with not a particle of evil
dence that any vegetation even existed
there. There are no abruded mountains
near these deposits from which they
could have been carried by water.
Prof. Vail says that this fire-clay
under a carbonite deposit is found be-
tween massive beds of glacier ice. and
being a geologist he declares that his
brother biologists are utterly con-
founded as to where this clay and car
bon came from. The only reasonable
inference is that this fire-clay and car
bon fell as the snow and was deposited
on the glacier ice. This will be further
discussed hereafter.
Copyrighted 1872, ly W. T. Foster.