The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-02
COALiNc STATIONS.
23i Ports Outside of Europe Where Coal
Is Sold to Steamship.

Is Sold to Steamships.
-Four thousand men are engaged to-
day I'm making Gibraltar one of the
greatest coaling stations and depots
for the refitting of warships In the
world. II will take two or three years
yet to carry out the plans for extend
ing the docks and other accommoda-
tions required ioE the re- pairing OF ma
val vessels and to secure perfect pro-
lection from outward attack for the
vast quantity of oal that is always
kept I'm stock at that great station.
All the improvements are to cost about
SIS. 900, 900.
We hear most of all nowadays about
the coaling stations that are needed for
navies. They are, of course, equally
essential for the merchant marine.
Three-fourths of the worlds
Is carried on steamships, and the whole
of the power used by all nations for tine
defense OF depends upon the
use of coal. Without security OF the
seas there can be no security of COM
merce. and so there must be gcograph-
ical continuity of coaling stations all
around IA 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. Trinco-
malice. Singapore, Hong Kong. Along
the East Atlantis route: Sierra Leone,
Ascension, st. Helena, Cape Town,
Mauritius. In Australian waters: Aus
tralian and New Zealand ports. Along
the West Atlantic route: Halifax,
Quebec. Bermuda, ST. Lucia. Kingston
and Falkland Islands: and i'm the
Northeast Pacific, Esquimalt. After
that, deposits OF coa on the east and
west coasts Of Canada, South Africa,
India and Australia. For a nation
whose is all around the
world, little more could be done to
make geographical unity complete.
In time of peace coal can be bought
by any naval vessel and the merchant
marine In most of the ports of the
world, but not in all of them. Coal is
kept as a commodity 1t 231 ports of the
world outside OF Europe. where every
port is a coal depot. and dealers, of
course. are glad to have buyers of con-
siderable quantities like the captains
of steamships come along. At little
Islands like Nossi Be and Comoro, in
the Indian ocean, and Samoa and the
Fiji islands, in the Pacific. merchants
keep a good supply of coal on hand,
and practically their only customers In
these tropical regions are passing
vessels. At these out-of-the way plac-
es ship captains buy only a sufficient
So w - pm AA'
coal Is a more generally used commod- |
ity, for dealers, where there is little or
no competition In the article, often
charge an exorbitant price for II. Coal
is now sold at such low figures in our
ports that most steamers in the
transatlantic trade usually coal on this
side of the ocean for the round trip. |
1t happens, therefore. sometimes. tina
when they are coming back to Amer
lea and are greatly delayed on the Way
their supply runs short. and we hea
now n then that they have been COM
PEELED to put into Halifax for coal.
Except in the Pacific supplies of coal
are now scattered so widely over the
world that usually a vessel requires
only a few days slow sailing or
steaming to reach some port where
IL may replenish its unkers Suppose,
for instance. that one OF our steam
whalers in the Arctic. after a season
north of Boring strait, ehould run short
Of coal. IL has only to go south as far
as Unalaska, in the Aleutian archlpel-
ago, too buy all IL needs.
Outside of Europe coal is specially
kept for sale to steamers at eight ports
on the north coast of Africa: at 13
ports OF West Africa. including the
Cape Verde islands and the Canaries:
at IA ports along the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean sea: at "a ports OF
NV hhuiNr VI - <NlltntiC poIls
Of North America as far south as the
Gulf OF Mexico; at five Islands Of the
Atlantic; at nine ports of East Africa:
at six islands OF the Indian ocean: at
IS ports of the East Indies and Phil
at IA ports of the East Asian
at five ports of Japan. Sachalin
and Kamptchatka; at 10 ports OF Aus
at seven ports of New Zealand:
at 10 ports on the west of North Amer
Ica: at 10 ports on the west of South
at Honolulu and Hilo In the
Pacific. N at -four islands in
the South Pacifc.-New York Sun.