Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-03

w .AsMEs, Belgium Dec j., ~ ".
|T am IN the heart OF one
=, ,he richest coal minihs
IA regions Of Europe Belgium
AM only about one-thlru 'ne
Wv .,,o Of Indiana, but It has
w ,anosits Of coal ana iron
.s,ch make II hum ike pee
~. busiest workshop upoh
h'' ,n i and it supports ,, "D0 os
the '0nsV .sople to the square mile az
as n'us ., ~, If the world. Its amman
any 'o'p or coal amounts 100000 tons y,
pfcdu'' y inc greater part OF TINS a.
It uses also imports fuel from Ger
home a uD england. At present tne peO-
many anu l ,',aa n the United States
PIE 81, n,..,Sle source of manufacturing
@' IA mo day may yet come wheh
fuel l ",, here viii be largely run
ne ,, ', coal from the United states
~ar BLACK COUNTRY OF BEL
liN GUM.
r, peIelum mining conditions are
., iry different from those OF gu. our
eountry our mines are near 'ne ne, SUI ,so
S saoa and II costs but little TO get the he
l' .' % me cars Those of Belgium are
~, w. dowp under the earth ana every
la S Tv 70 be lifted by machinery to the
VS. .,,De Some Of the mines when !
sI I,,aN today are more than a nan niue
Ilsl'eu NM water has TO be fought at
usep' ,urn and mighty pumps are en-
ever - keen the works dry. There
p,e tunnels cutting the earth TINS way
sad hat at a depth OF SOOV ieel NJ
.ton aro other tunnels. ana the Wno,e
sAsm n,ry IL a catacomb, made by get
w.. w." n9t the coal. The mines nave 10
s' ,,rebsrsd The wood is cut from
W. eorests near By, but the most OF II
", na, oyer six inches thick. and az IL
a = ne 10 Inc mines II looks like tele-
sraoh poles. each 50 feet long, taperlng
70 point at the end. such timber
stands IN great stacks about each nine
7, n unloadel from the cars by women,
who handle the poles like so many
Amazons,
BEIGIUMs COAL PYRAMIDS,
This coal region is far different from
those Of Pennsylvania, Ohio or Tennes--
zee There It is mountainous. Here at
Nasmes the land Is fiat, and the only
ELEVATIONS are from the dumps Of the
mines The coal here Is filed with
waste, Il has to be stored ana the
refuse Is carried out upon cars. There
Il 50 much Of 1t that a pyramidal
mountain soon rises up beside each
mine. standing out like a black cone
against the blue sky. There are such
pyramids everywhere In this part of
Belgium. Some OF them are dead, the
mines which produced them having
been worked out and abandoned. Others ]
have ladders up their backs and a
framework on the top where women
push the cars along and with a rafting
sound empty, them. Some OF these py-
ramids are smoking. There is much
sulphur IN the coal and spontaneous
combustion often starts n fire which
burns on for years. Instances are
known Of people going to sleep on the
dumps and being suffocated by the
fumes and gases.
Take your stand with me on one OF
these coal mountains just outside the
mining town Of Washes and look
about you. See the farms covered with
fich crops. with these coal mounds ris-
ing above them There is one al our
right with great bug-like bags crawling
over It. Take your field glass and look
at them. They are not bags. They ara
women Who are picking up the coal
that has been LETT in the waste. There
comes car along the coal mountain.
Two women are pushing II and with
The glass you can almost see their
muscles swell as with bare arms they
cast II on the dump.
Now look at that mound at the left. IL
Ia hundreds Of feet high. and. like the
others about II, II Is an evidence OF the
enormous waste that the miners have
70 contend with Every bit Of coal that
Is brought to the surface has to be
picked over and the waste Is evidently
more than the coal itself.
Near every mound you see the huge
buildings Of the coal workers. They are
hol unlike those Of the United States.
uu' the scenes about them are differ
TIGER LILIES AND BLACK DIA-
MONDS.
IN the United States the work is done
,atosetner by men Here most OF the
llaoOt aDoYe the surface ~ nerfnrmel