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UNCLE SAM STI1L HAS.
SEVENTY MILLION ACRE.3
OF Coal LANDS
ImS SHOWS SEVEN Foot
VEIN IN CGUFF'S OF THE
YELLOWSTONE.

development of the Pacific coast states"
understand that you biologists are
resurveying and revaluing the coal upon
our public lands? Can You tell me how
this is done?'
THE old way of selling the coal lands"
replied the director, was at so much per
acre. regardless Of the quality or amount
OF coal It contained. The price was
fixed at SO If the land lay within fifteen
miles of a railroad, or at SO per acre if
it were outside that limit Our present
method Is to measure lip the coal in
each acre. and sell the land on coal
I'D per acre we are now getting from
$40 to $500 per acre. and some of the
coal land will be worth more. Within the
past two years the survey has classified
more than eight million acres Of coal in
that way. and has placed a value upon
them of S5GO.OOO,OOO
This added to what we have classified
oe1ore gives us over 100000 acres
already classified. the valuation Of which
in round numbers is $637 .OOO.ON At
the old rates those lands would have
sold for at least $OO,OOO.OOO less,
and the new valuations mean a gain to
the government of about that amount
But this. you must remember. is the saw
ing on only $4,000, 600 acres, and we have
sixty or seventy million acres which
are yet to be priced
coal?"
" W tudt On q royalty oasis
In the first place. we figure out how
much coal each acre contains. A bed
OF coal one foot thick has about
I,SOO tons to the acre. and If it is 40 feet
thick 1t would contain 40 times that. or
1900 tons to the acre. We value it as
low as half cent a ton, and from that
up to two or three cents ton according
to the quality Of the coal. whether 1t is a
ioW-grade bftuminous or a high grade
anthracite or cooking bituminous.
We test the actual heating value and
base our estimates on that. Having esti-
mated the value. we put the price on each
acre, and We have now maps showing the
values of coal lands on millions of acres.
The maps are in townships divided up
into forty-acre tracts. the value of each
OF which has been carefully calculated. An
acre OF coal twenty feet thick would con-
tain $1,000 tons. and this at one-half cent
ton would be valued at $50. supposing
we considered the full amount of coal 1t
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is beyond all doubt UNNECESSARILY the
worst The Firms, therefore, stand stead
tasty: and, certain as they are Of de-
struction. no man will give way. And
among them will stand firmly their
fourteen woman legislators
So that if Ffnland's parliament will
soon cease to exist as living proof that
women are fit to legislate and rule. n
will perish in way which will give noble
testimony that women equally with men
are ready to sacrifice themselves for le-
gality, justice and freedom
Copyright 1911. In the United States by Curtis
Brown. All British rights reserved)
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glanced up at the pretty countess and
prayed for such brides. and grizzled old
generals wished they were young again
and that their wives didn't so closely re-
Semble sacks of flour.
In fact, sall things smiled on the pretty
court lady-the guardsmen, the flowers
and the sunshine. When her carriage
stopped outside the marble palace of the
crown prince the fat lackeys bowed and
helped her obsequiously to alight. But
as the countess asked to be shown into
the crown princess private rooms they
answered that the princess was in there
and that the countess must first send a
card. The pretty court lady bluShed. said
she would come another day and whired
away in cloud of dust.
Meantime Herr Jeweer Baertge of
POtsdam, who sometimes has the honor
of selling rings to the court. received
an agreeable message. The court marshal
informed him by telephone that Manuela,
Countess Won Arnim, lady-in-waitnS to
the kaiserin, would pay him visit, as
she was commissioned by the kaiserin to
buy some jewelry for the Princess Vic
toria Louise. Herr Baertge is a solid per-
sOnality who knows how to rise to such
occasions. He donned a frock coat. spread
a red carpet on his steps and spent the
morning rubbing his hands. When his
wife inquired what was the cause of the
preparations he smiled mysteriously and
whispered: "A lady" Frau Baertge NUT
MARRIAGE Herr. Baertge sat at his en-
trance and watched.
X x
There was one other person in Pots
dam watching for the countess. This was
Policeman Heinrich Speyer, whose usual
station is outside the marble palace. Herr
Speyer had watched the pretty aristocrat
as she entered her carriage. How much
he saw Is unknown: but 1t was certainly
enough u make him think rather OF
counts than of countesses. So he Dor
rowed a bicycle. followed the whirling
carriage and saw it stop at Herr Baertge's
door.
He hid behind the Intel and listened.
Perspiring with obsequiousness. Herr
Baertge was pulling out case after case
of trinkets. Before him. seated nom
chalantly in a chair, lolled the adorable
countess and her purple velvet train
stretched across the floor.
: Her majesty doesn't want much" she
said to Herr Baertge. You will send the
bill to the palace" And she took up
nice little bracelet and a couple of rings,
had them packed smiled to blushing Herr
Bsertge and made for her carriage.
At this moment Herr Speyer opened hts
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branch Of the Finnish Women's Asso-
citation Baroness Yrjo-Koskinen in her
family relations is a marked instance Of
the universally of the Finnish women's
movement. OF her three daughters, one
is a doctor of medicine, another a stu
law student. The baroness was ap-
pointed recently by the government to
organize schools Of political economy.
She belongs to the old Finnish party
and is one Of the woman members who
has also husband sitting beside her
In the diet Whether she ever votes
against her husband is not on record,
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but if she has, no one has remembered
the fact.
The diet in which these five remark
able women play SO conspicuous role
is now awaiting its fate. No man doubts
what the fate will be. 1t cannot sur
render to Russia. Were it to surrender
1t would be stoned to death by every
man, woman and child in Finland This
is not because the Firms are against
compromise. There is no possibility of
compromise. What Russia demands is
state in Europe with an of11cialdom which
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FINNISH Diet, Which
i Must, Before Long, Be
Abolished by Russia, Has
Proved to the World the
Capacity of Women as Leg
islators, Administrators and
Patriots, and the Women Are
as Steadfast as the Men in
Resisting Russian Despotism
Remarkable Group of Fee
male Legislators, Some of
Whom Sit Side by Side With
Their Husbands-Have Done
Good Work in Many Spheres
of Educational and Social
Reform.
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beds has been almost doubled within the
past ten years, and it is now known to
cover a territory twelve times as large
as the states of Ohio. Virginia or Ken
lucky. or about one-sixtn that Of the
United States proper.
Some of the new and undevelOped
regions have beds thirty. forty. fifty
and even eighty feet thick and
Sne single bed contains FIVE or six
billion tons. In the whole United
States. according to the estimate of DR..
Campbell, made for the survey, the coal
in the beds Is more than 5000 billions Of
tons and of this more than 1900 billion
tons are accessible and easily worked.
DIR. Smith says that our workable coal
fields are four times as large as those
of all of the country combined. and that
our tonnage is twice as great as that
estimated for the rest of the world.
4
wall. 1 have seen it at several different
places 1t is about forty feet high and
perhaps twenty feet wide at the top. 1t
begins at the Yellow sea and runs across
China for a distance of ] 800 miles. That
wall would be a grain of sand or at best
q single brick compared with the mighty
wall that might be made of Uncle
Sans coal. We shall estimate the
amount at only 1000 billions Of tons, TAX
ing only the workable and accessible coal
into the calculation. II that coal were out
of the ground and laid up in solid mason
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replied the director. Il mean for coal
The Ignite is estimated at about one
third that depth"
How about Ignite. is IL Of great
value?'
1T will probably be worth far more In
the future than 1t is now. We have al,
together i'm the neighborhood Of 10000
square miles, containing about 80 billion
tons of Ignite. which is easily accessible
There are vast beds of Ignite in
rich farming lands. and there ara
great beds in the SOUTH including Texas
and other gulf states. We have lig-
mite bed in North Dakota which Is as big
as the whole state of South Carolina.
Its contents are estimated at something
like 800 billion tons. Montana and New
Mexico have large deposits of Ignite and
there are billions Of tons OF it in Alaska
But have we had any practical tests
OF the value of l;Gnite:'
1T is used largely i'm Europe replied
the director Of the survey Germany
consumes fifteen million tons of Ii an
nually, and in the shape of briquettes it
is consumed on many Of the European rail-
roads. 1t is also employed there for do
mestic heating and gas making.
BriQuettes have been used expermentally
on some of our roads and we have A
number of factories which are now MAX
ing them. The briquettes burn without
clfnKerS, ana L nave seen il estimated
that if they should be substituted for coal
on the railroads, the saving i'm our coal
consumption would be something like
thirty million tons per annum. Tile
Geological Survey has been making ex-
periments to briquette manufacture.
and We have machines which will exert
a pressure Of $4,000 pounds to the square
inch, forcing the Ignite into briquettes
without the aid of a binder, such as pitch
some other substance. Ignite coal
can be used for gasmaking. and it will In
time form a large source of fuel supply
for gas engines
What will be done with the money
that the government gets from it's coal
lands?' / asked.
THAT is a very interesting feature in
connection with the reva luation said the
director 1.-The greater part of the gov
eminent coal lands lies in the states which
are retaining the deserts, and this
money will go to the reclamation fund.
1t will be used to make reservoirs in the
mountains dams for the rivers and ca
mails to carry the water out over the land
1t will enormously increase the area Of
irrigated land and will eventually result
in the creation Of thousands of farms.
So far the proceeds of the coal lands have
all been deposited to the credit of the ir-
rigation reclamation fund.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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if any one wants to prophesy he can
use those figures as a basis, keeping in
mind the fact that the increase in con-
sumption of our coal has been remark
able. and that in each decade the amount
used has exceeded the total previous con-
sumption since we began to mine
coal. / mean to say that the consump-
ton for the ten years ending with last
year was greater than the total con-
sumption during the last century. If
such ratio of increase should continue.
which is impossible. the life of our coal
fields would be comparatively short"
Can you tell me just where our
great coal fields are. Mr.. Director"
said I.
They are to be found in all but
fourteen states of the Union. They
extend from northern Pennsylvania to
Oregon. and from Canada to southern
most Texas You can get the best idea
of them from a map made for the sur
or SO ago."
Here the director sent for a map
of our coal lands about four times as
large as a page Of this newspaper, and
spread it out on his desk. AS we
looked at 1t he said:
That great patch at the east is the
coal field, and those
spots to the right of it, at it's northern
end. are the anthracite beds of eastern
Pennsylvania. 1t is from there that
comes the chief anthracite of the coun-
try. Those beds originally contained
over nineteen billion tons of anthracite
and at the close Of the year 1909 there
were estimated to be over fifteen bill
lion tons still in the ground. The APP
palachian field contains much high
grade bituminous coal good for cox
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HAVE spent an
afternoon this week
at the geological
survey talking with
DR.. George Otis
Smith, the director,
as to his new inveS-
legations of Uncle
Sans coal fields.
His figures are so
big that they daz-
Zle the mind. The
area of the known
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THIN a few weeks
Europe's first eX-
perrin emit with
women as legis-
latorS will have
come to an end.
The Finnish diet is
doomed. 4 law
passed by a minor
ity, of the Russian
duma June so last
deprived IT of all
power by declaring
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social matters. Social legislation gen.
orally is the strong point Of the Finnish
woman legislators, as 1t is of the men,
Mrs. Parssinen has another charac teris-
tic of the Finnish woman legislator. She
is real and active, not an ornamental,
diet bills on motherhood insurance and
education, and on compulsory prima ry
education for all classes of children. She
has also mothered bills to prevent the
overworking Of clerks and shopgirls, to
prevent the employment Of children in
street selling. and to mitigate the too
severe punishments hitt erto inflicted in
case of infanticide committed while in
state of frenzy.
A type of the active Finnish organizer
and agitator is Miss Tekla Hultin. To
Miss Hultins credit are due two remark
able Finnish achievements, one in the
domain of women's emancipation, the
Finland from Russian tyranny. The
first was that Miss Hultin. who was born
in 1854 was the first Finnish woman to
obtain the difficult degree Of doctor Of
philology.
That was achieved in 1897. Shortly
afterward she appeared in politics, where
She developed into political pamphleteer
and journalist. and became editorial
writer on a Finnish newspaper. The
newspaper was stopped by the Russian
Governor Bobrikoff, who afterward was
assassinated by Finn. Then came the
stirring events of 1906. Although Bobri-
koff was dead, and much better gov
ernor, Obolensky, sat in his place, the
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see them excluded. They are good speak
ers in no way given to "oratory,,'' spe-
cialists and practical workers in social
legislation, and, above all, believers in
work and enemies of unconsidered senti-
ment. They have not fulfilled the dread
of the anti-sufragi that woman law
makers would. disrupt family life. Many
Finnish women voted for parties which
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slams made their great general strike.
Not only artisans and laborers, railway
men and factory hands, but also even
officials, lawyers and doctors stopped
work in protest against the cars cor
ruptiOn and despotism.
The Firms saw their chance. They, too,
proclaimed general strike. Perfect or
der was kept, but the Russian governor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07

VERN M E N T Coal
~ Land Prices - One-half
Cent a Ton-How the Pub
lie Coal Lands Are Being
Prospected and Valued
Uncle Sam, Coal Merchant
The Proceeds to Reclaim
the Deserts-Our Enormous
Fuel Consumption III o w
Long Will the Coal Last?-
The New Discoveries of the
West Ignite Briquettes
and the Railroads.&c. Talk
With the Director of the
Geological Survey About
Some Interesting Operations
Of Uncle Sam, Patriarch.
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
uEI CINcEnDC A-.;r n.
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ALIGNITE BED IN
NORTH DAKOTA. AS BIC
AS SOVTH CAROLINA

~ it would make wall one-third Of a
mile high and mile thick reaching from
New York to San Francisco. Or. sup
pose 1t be 600 feet thick, which is more
vania avenue in Washington or that OF
any OF the largest streets of our cities.
and make the wall three times as high
as the Washington Monument. We
shall begin the construction at Boston
and extend the wall westward. How far
do YOU think it would go? Would it reach
across the Pacific? Yes. 1t would eX-
tend from Boston to Shanghai in China
and from there over the whole of Asia
and Europe, until it met the Atlantic
would &c on clear across that ocean TO
Boston. and there would be hundreds of
millions of tons Yet to spare.
But the Chinese wall was useless at
tempt at defense to shut out the Tartars
This is a great industrial wall. which
means the keeping our factories busy and
our houses warm for three or four thou
sand years of the ages to come.
This estimate of how long our coal
will last is not DR.. Smiths. / tried to get
him to tell, but he hedged. Said he:
LAS reported by Mr.. Parker, the survey
coal statistician. the total production Of
coal in the United States up to date has
been over eight billion tons. which, with
an exhaustion of about twelve billion
tons This is less than one-half of
per cent of the coal now known to exist
and 1t leaves us more than 80 per cent of
our workable coal in the ground. The
amount, as / have said. is about two
thousand billion tons. which means four
thousand times the amount We are now
using each year, plus 80 per cent added as
waste
How much coal do we use every
year,"
Our highest production was that Of
1907. when we used 10000, 900 short tons.
That was about million and half tons
every day. We are now using a little
less. but 1T would take more than 3O0,OO
trains Of thirty cars each to carry the
coal that We are annually mining. and
the combined length of those trains
would be between eighty and ninety
thousand miles. They would make a solid
train Of coal reaching two and one-half
times around the globe at the equator"
But Mr.. Director" said I. 'ff we use
less than 500 millions tons a year. would
not those 1000 billions last us 1900
years.
II don't want to talk about years." said
the head of the geological survey, but
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replied the director. Il mean for coal.
The Ignite is estimated at about one
third that depth"
How about Ignite, is IL of great
valuer"
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-02
They Took the Wrong Leaf.

During the civil war. says Youths
Companion. one little incident oc-
cured which will illustrate the dry
wit for which General Jubal Early
was so we'll known. After General
Sheridan had been pressing upon the
C~onfederates in the Shenandoah
Valley for nearly the whole eason
General Rosser was sent from the
Army of Eastern Virginia to General
Early's assistance. General Rosser's
men had been doing brilliant SER
vice, and SO elated with their various
triumphs that they had adopted the
laurel leaf as a badge and allowed
themselves to be called the Laurel
Brigade"
When these valiant warriors came
to the ~disheartened soldiers in the
Shenandoah Valley they spoke with
ease and gayety of the short time 1t
would take them to clear the valley
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-02

you can be a Commissioner TO the
st. Louis Exposition"
Done said Senator Tom.
1t was, too. Nobody suspected it.
1t was the best-kept secret anybody
remembers. The decks cleared some
dozen hours before the adjournment
time. Carter got the floor. and made
the speech of his life. For twelve
hours he was as funny as only he can
be. There wasn't a dry minute in it.
The bill was killed, and he got the
job. Six years later he came back
to the Senate. having meantime made
a fortune.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-02
slarpshooters In a Duel.

Len Doremus was the crack sharp
shooter of General A. z. Hill's diyis-
ion, says the Los Angeles Times, II
vas his boast when the war was not
pst two years old thai ha had picked
on thiflysodd Yankees. some OF
whom were officers of high rank No
doubt he had done II.
Pete Martin. of General alocums
division, vas his equal IN skill and
daring. He and Len had been init
knate friends before the war. and the
wish OF each was a chance 10
Tefaw bead on the other. They man
euyered for a long time To do so.
without success. One sultry after
noon, In the summer OF 1868, while
both We're scouting a stretch of
woods between the lines. they came
lace to face so suddenly that neither
had an advantage.
Let's fight fair!" called Len. in
stantly recognizing his enemy.
All right, You do the counting
Make ready"
Each man bro.,ahi his rife Ia MS
a.. Ooh deliberate ann At
,ne neaft Of the other. In = clear,
zen Voice. len called
One3s%o-threel"
The Weapons rang out at the
same instant. Then each lowered his
gun and stared In abatement at each
oiher, Neither hae been grazed,
The same TO you" replied Pete,
fully as ehagrisied as he.
Since both were unerring rifle
shots, their mutual nausea was be
yond description. They could not
understand It.
After the war they met at a re-
union Of the Blue and Grey. Recall
ing their former encounter. Len
said:
i have never been able To hgure
II out; have your
Yes replied Pete with "A grin /.
our aim was trhe. but the bullets
Enet In mid-air and each smashed
ethe other.
He was right.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-02
How Carter Came Back.

Senator Tom Carter, of Mon
tana, retired at the last session. He
retired ones before, but came back
after six years. says the Washington
Times, and they say he may do that
again.
Last time Senator Carter retired
ii was in a blaze of glory. He was
about as unpopular with Congress
the day he left public life as a nan
could well be. 1t happened thusly:
The House had passed a $50 ,000.-
0Oo River and Harbor bill, and it had
been reported TO the Senate. Nc
Kinley didn't want to veto il and
also didn't it to pass. He sent
for Carter. Tradition says he spoke
In substance like this:
Tom. If you will keep still, en-
gineer that River and Harbor bill to
the right place, and then talk 1t to
death without killing anything else,
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-02
REUNITED.

The hours we're long with you away
Although | thought could forget,
| banished you and cursed the day
That we had ever met.
| frowned upon you, and ] vowed
That never more your charms ID
seek:
| sought new pleasures with III,
crowd
But I'm weak.
Temptress | called you and | swort
No longer your demands I'd serve,
Freedom I'd own for ever more,
But ! lost my nerve.
And absent, all my love returned,
Not for one moment was ! free.
For you / nightly. daily yearned,
Your slave I'd be.
No charm in anything ] found.
No luster in the skies of blue,
| merely moped my way around,
And sighed for you.
| must be made OF fragile clay,
Unsuited for the hero type,
For back to you ] come today,
Old briar pipe.
Old briar pipe.
Detroit Free Press.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-04-02
The N TaiIo,.

There was $1O5 in the left
trousers pocket" painted a white
faced man as he all but fell into the
little tailor's pressing and cleaning
shop, says the New York Sun.
The tailor glanced at the excited
citizen and went ON pushing the
goose.
After a minute the new arrival got
MS breath, but lost his temper. Il say
there was $105 in the left trousers
pocket he repeated, shaking his
fist.
Vel, didt | sedt dere wasn't? the
little tailor asked. Deere is de pants.
Mebby he ISIS here yedt' pointing to
a pair OF trousers on a nail.
The left pocket gave up a roll of
bills and a cigarette case, the right
pocket a bunch of keys, a penknife
and a pound of other junk; the right
back pocket a magazine pistol and a
handkerchief, the left back pocket a
big memorandum book and the fob
pocket a watch with fob and charm
attached and some bills tightly fold
ed.
After the absent minded one had
given the tailor IS for his honesty
the knight OF the goose soliloqnized.
Some day dot Teller fergit his
bants.'