The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-12-07
WORLDS FUEL SUPPLY
COAL RESOURCES gERE AND ~
OTHER COUNTRIES.

! Use OF Peat neI in the usure.
'The worlds fuel supply" sasd an
officers of the Bureau of american Ee-
publics, has recently been made the
sliDj,c ct o. III interesting study by. Or.
/ Ferdinand Fischer Of GutteDge Ger
many, who has collected with much
care all the available data as to the
coal resources Of the globe His find
ings are made Of peculiar value by the
recent anthracite strike here, with it's
focusing of American attention
on fuel"
! II is a curious commentary, that
while China, so far as is known, is
I richer in coal than any other country
J in the world, almost none Of it is yet
: available for steam. power 1t is large
4 ly used by the Chinese, but mainly in
! the regions where it is mined. fhe
lard routes are 50 poor that it does
not pay to haulecoal more thaa IS
miles. Unless a Mnine is within this
I distance of wateK carriage. the area
of the Distribution Of the output is
confined to the Immediate neighbor-
hood. Steamship at Shanghai are to-
day filing thais4 hunkers with coal
brought from Europe, because it is
| cheaper than coaf extensively brought
/ from Chinese mines in the interior.
/ In DR. Fischefs opinion, Germany
has a coal supply that will meet the
needs of that country for about 1000
years. DR. Fischer also reaches the
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next 50 years, and certainly within this
century, Great Britain, at the present
rate of consumption, will exhaust her
coal resources. She certainly cannot
go on supplying ne larger part Of the
worlds export. The total production
of coal in Great Britain in 1901
amounted to 219.a46,945 gross tons,
against 225 ,1S1. 300 cons in 1900. Japan
has large coal resources, particularly
in the southern province OF Kiushiu.
Borneo is rich in'moal formations. as
is ais New South. Wales, fact that
is enabling Sydney to forge ahead Of
the other Australian cities in industri-
al development. plfrica and South
/ America are poora in coal than any
of the other continents, but the devel-
opment of coal mihes in South Africa
bids fair to supply the industrial needs
of the country.
According to rebirns to the United
States Geological Survey from produce
ers representing fully 81 percent of the
entire coal output Of the United States.
the production of 1901 amounted TO
292, 240, 1853 short tons, valued at $685.
S13,8S1 As compared with 1900, when
the output amounted to 269.S31 1927
short tons, worth ss0G, S91 1854. this rep
resents an increase of 3 percent in
quantity, and 1876 percent in value.
The production of Pennsylvania an
thracite showed a phenomenal increase
from 81 POI 1853 long tons in 1860 to
60,242 $50 long tons in 1901 This rep
resented a gain of II 1-2 percent, the
largest percentage OF gain made by the
anthracite trade in 20 years. Part of
this increase was due to the strike in
1900. which reduced the output that
year by over 100000 long tons. The
/ increase in the value of the anthracite
product is still more striking, the
amount received at the mines last year
showing gain of more than 81 per-
cent over that of 1900 A period OF
prosperity enabled consumers general
" to pay higher prices for their fdel,
and a railroad monopoly made them do
SO.
The production of bituminous coal.
Ignite, camel coal, etc, liz the United
States increased from 2i2,5lS.912 shorl
tons in 1900 to 224. 76909l short tons in
1901, indicating a gain ofhhout 6 per
cent. The value of his product
amounted to 1896, 1905, S1l. as compared
with 1921 1858 in 1909 an increase
Of $15,1lo,29S. or a little less than
percent.
The coal production OF the United
States last year was nearly 20 percent
more than Great Britain's; nearly 50
percent larger than Germany's; nearly
seven times that of Hungary,
and more than eight times that OF
France, England, however. continues
to export more coal than all other
countries It supplies far more coal
F.. ing stations than any other country.
The business of selling coal abroad
is usually very profitable. and one rea-
son why England surpasses all com
+ petitors in this. line IS because her coal
is so near the sea that she is able to
ship it less extensively than any other
4 exporting nation. Owing to the more
extensive use of coal-mining niachin-
/. cry, much of the United States coal
at the pit mouth does not cost al much
as British coal when raised to TIE sur
face, but by the time it is shipped on
( the ocean it usually costs more than
{ British coal. England has special adj
vantages for the export coal trade,
and she improves them to the utmost.
in spite of the fact that Economists
/ assert that the present century will see
the end of her coal resources.
I comparison of the coal resources
Of Great Britain and the United States
was recently made by a. S. E. Aeker-
mann. who shows that the area of coal
fields in the United States is about
225,000 square miles. as compared with
800 square miles in the United King
DOM
When it comes to actual mining op-
J erstiOns the American rises mich moro