Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-02-09
Lines Establisbed Along the Routes
Of the-GfeSst Com c roe bearers
OF All Nation. - Location
OF the Ports.

tour tHouSdnu men are engaged to-
day in making Gibraltar one IF the
greatest coming stations anL g. cots lor
'he refiiiing Of warsh!ps in lh> world
II VIII iak4 TWO or three YEARS Vt Tor
carrying out the plans for eNi. "G:rg
the d"c.:s and other accommodate.
required tUr the repairing E. ral.. -
sells and 10 secure perfect protection
from outward attack for 1ht vast guam
tily OF coal that is always Kept il. stock
al mat great STAT .on. All the i'm
proveme are TO cost about$15,G. O.CG0.
We hear most of all rowadays about
the coaling stations thai are Ieeded
lot navieS. They are. Of course, ca ally
essential for the merchant marine
Ihree-fnurths of the worlds commerce
is carried on Steamships. ard the whole
OF the power used by all nations for the
defense OF commCrce depends upon the
use OF coal. Without security Of the
seas there can be no security of COM
merce. and so there must be geopraph-
zeal security for coal:ng stations al!
around the world. This fact greatly
impressed Great Britain. for il touches
her very existence. Look at her line
of government coaling stations along
all the great trade routes.
Along the route to the orient: Glib
raltar. Malta. Alden. Bombay. Trim
GONZALEZ, Singapore. Hong hong. A.ors
the east Atlantic coast: Sierra Leone
Ascension, st. Helena. Cape Town. Mai
ritius. In Auslralasian waters: Aus
traIia and New Zealand ports. Along
the West Atlantic route: Halifax Que
bee. Bermuda. st. Lucia. King. J. and
Falkland islands; and n the Eu, 'i.rast
facihc. Esquimalt. After thai 'oS-
IFS Of coal on the east and west lasts
of Canada, South Africa. India 49,:
Australasia. For a nation who's. cn;.
MERGE is all round the world. Elite mere
could be done to make geographical!
unity complete.
In time of peace coal can be bought
by any naval vessel ard the mcrci
marine in most of the PORTS ~: 4.
world. but not in all of them. Coal !.
kept as a commodity AT 231 ports f,li
world outside OF Europe. where cvsi.
port is coal depot. and dealers. e.
course. are glad 10 have buyers If co...
siderable quantities ike the captai.sC
like Nossi BE and Comoro. in lie m
dian ocean, and Samoa and the Fiji j.
lands. in the Pacific. merchants keep
good supply Of coal on hand an! rrac
ticaly Their only customers in thcy.
tropical regions are passing vessels \
these out-of-ihc-way places ship cay
tains buy only a sufficient guam IS
carry them TO Fort where co.:i is
more generally used commodity "a
dealers where there is little or T., con-.
petition IN the article often char%e a:
exorhtant price for it Coal i now
sold at such low figures in on" ow:
ports that most steamers in the Jraps-
atlantic trade usually coal on IL : sid
of the ocean for The round trip.
happens, therefore, sometimes tha
when they are coming back 10 Amcric
and are greatly delayed on tn va,
their supply runs Snort. and we he:.
now and then that thy have beer. cor
PEELED to put into 1lalifax for coal Ex
cept in the Pacific supplies of coal ar.
now scattered so wild ~ over The wor.t
that usually a vessel requires or, y u few
days slow sailing or s1Caming i. rfacI.
'oihS pun "hSIe II HAY JN Il. 90 Ill li<
bunkers. Suppose. for instance. Ia
one OF our steam whalers III ting Arctic
after a season north OF l'thring tra:f
should run short Of coal, II has only /:
go south as far as UnaIaska. in The
.Aleutian archipelago, to buy al il
needs. Ak.
/ Outside OF Europe coal Is specially
kept for sale to steamers at eirIJ DOrtx
on the north coast Of Africa; at 13 ports
Of West Africa, including the Cap
Verde islands and the Canaries; at l.:
ports along the Gulf Of Mexico and tn,
Caribbean sea; at "a ports Of the Wes
, Indies; at 90 Atlantic ports Of North
America as far south as the Gulf Of
Mexico; at five islands Of the Atlantic:
at nine ports of East Africa; at IL ports
of South Asia; at six islands OF the
india ocean; at &c ports of the East In
dies and Philippines; Mt II ports OF the
East Asian coast; at Ave ports Of Japan.