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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

dCopyright 1911 by Frank G. Carpenter.)
 Washington, D. c. M HAVE spent this afternoon at the
 geological survey talking with Dr. George Otis Smith, the director, as to his new investigations of Uncle Sams coal fields. His figures are so big that they dazzle the mind. The area of the Known beds has been almost doubled within the past ten years and it is now known to cover a territory P times as large as the states of Ohio. Virginia or Kentucky, or about one-sixth that of the United States proper
 Some of the new and undeveoped re- gions have beds 30, 40, 50, and even 80 feet thick, and one single bed contains five or six billion tons. Tn the whole United States, according to the esti- mate of Dr. Campbell, made for the sur vey, the coal in the beds is more than three thousand billions of tons, and of this more than two thousand billion tons are accessible and easily worked. Dr. 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 that esti- mated for the rest of the world.
 Uncle Sam's Big Coal Wall
 You have heard of the great Chinese wall. have seen it at several different places. It is about 40 feet high and per haps 20 feet wide at the top It begins at the Yellow sea and runs across China for distance of 1500 miles. That wall would be grain of sand or at best a single brick compared with the mighty wall that might be made of Uncle Sam's coal. We shall estimate the amount at only POGO billions of tons. taking only the workable and accessible coal into the calculation If that coal were out of the ground and laid up in a solid masonry 1t would make a wall one-third of mile high and mile thick reaching from New York to San Francisco Or suppose it be GU feet thick which is more than three times the width Of Pennsylvania avenue in Washington or that of any of the largest streets of our cities and make the wall three times high as the Wash ington Monument. We shall begin the construction at Boston and extend the wall westward. How far do you think 1t would go? Would it reach across the Pacific? Yes. It would extend from Bos- ton to Shanghai, in China. and from there over the whole of Asia and Europe, until 1t met the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast of France. It would go on clear across that ocean to Boston, and there would be hundreds of millions of tons yet to spare. But the Chinese wall was a useless att tempt at defense to shut out the Tartars. | This is great industrial wall. which means the keeping our factories busy and l our houses warm for three or four thou l sand years of the ages to come. This estimate of how long our coal will | last is not Dr. Smiths. l tried to get him | @ tell, but he hedged. Said he l "AH reported by Mr.. Parker, the sur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

l our public lands? Can you tell me how
 this is done?'
 ''The old way of selling the coal lands, ''
 replied the director. twas at so much per acre, regardless of the quality or amount of coal it contained. The price was fixed at s2o if the land lay within 15 miles of a railroad, or at BIO per acre if it were out side that limit Our present method is to measure up the coal in each acre, and sell the land on a coal tonnage basis In- stead of getting 10 or s29 per acre we are now getting from $50 to $500 per acre, and some of the coal land will be worth i more. Within the past two years the sur | vey has classified more than eight million acres of coal in that way, and has placed a value upon them of $500 0,OOO This added to what we have classified before gives us over 100000 acres all ready classified. the valuation of which in round numbers is $6370O,OO0. At the old rates those lands would have sold for at least S400,0 ,000 less, and the new valua- ton means a gain to the government of about that amount. But this, you must | remember, is the saving on only 13,O0O 900 acres, and we have sixty or seventy mill lion acres which are yet to be priced Coal at One-HaIf Cent Ton
 But how can you fix the value of the coal?"
 We do that on a royalty basis. In the first place. we figure out how much coal each acre contains. A he'd of coal one foot thick has about 1900 tons to the acre, and if it is 40 feet thick it would contain 4d times that, or 72,000 tons to the acre. We value it as low as half cent a ton, and from that up to or cents a ton, according to the quality of the coal. whether it is a low grade bituminous or a high grade anthracite or coking bitu- minous.
 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 show
 ing the values of coal lands on millions of acres. The maps are in townships di- vided up into 40-acre tracts, the value of each of which has been carefully cal culated. An acre of coal 20 feet thick would contain 36,O00 tons, and this at one half cent a ton would be valued at $1S0 supposing we considered the full amount of coal it contained. We estimate how ever, at 1000 tons instead of 1900 tons to the acre foot, and the price of the 2o- foot bed would be on the basis of only 0G00 tons. making it cost $100 per acre
 instead of $1S0. If it were 1 cent ton 1t would be $2O0 per acre, and if the bed were thicker or thinner it would be more or less We have other allowances for waste and for the difficulty of mining"
 Uncle Sam as a Coal Merchant
 But can the government lands be sold at these high prices?'
 "We are selling them. During single month at the Salt Lake City office we have received s200,00o for such lands and additional claims were filed that month by would-be purchasers aggregating s2oO- coo more. The selling prices are fixed so that they will be attractive to the pur- chaser and at the same time will prevent the lands being bought and held in or der that the buyer may make a great profit out of the unearned increment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07
The Battle of the Nile

But for a pin prick there would have been no battle of the Nile. At orc moment Nelson was fretting his heart out in vain quest of the French, with ne one to furnish a clew as to their where abouts. Next minute the secret was q, in a lady's boudoir Sir John Acto, | commander in chief of land and SC forces at Naples, was in his wife's roo, when her maid was putting the f1nist ing touches to her ladyship's dress. The maid drove the point of pin into her mistress and apologized. Some one ha 2. al that moment handed the maid let ter from her brother, French sailo, rom whom she had not heard for son time. and its receipt had startled he Sir John Acton, foreseeing possibilities onered to read the letter while the ma continued her attentions to her mistres The moment he had read 1t he dashe' oh to find Nelson. The letter gave a' the information as to the whereabop 7 and intentions of the French. Upon thii Nelson acted, and the battle of the NJ | resulted from that pin prick,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

on the other side of the Mississippi is an- other vast region underlaid with coal, while at the south are the coal fields of Texas Our surveyors have recently in- vestigated the coal fields of the north- west and the Rocky mountain plateau, and especially that upon the public lands, the title to which is still in the govern ment.'
 What Uncle Sam Owns
 Can you give me some idea of the coal lands which still belong to the govern ment? What is their extent?"
 "They cover an area of more than sew enty or eighty million acres, and they contain an enormous amount Some of the beds are 20 30, 40 and even as high as 80 feet in thickness, and in many of them there are several beds with clay or rock between them. In the Navajo reservation of Arizona we have the Black Mesa coal field, which Is estimated to contain moro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

 1 "Why? Because she had no money nothing but her salary.
 Then said Mir Mckenzie, in his buoyant, breezy way "Ill put up the money"
 Miss Lewis thought he was joking, or was saying this because he felt so good over the making of the s5O00 in five minutes but the next morning the west erner questioned her as to how soon she would need the money.
 Do you really mean it?" she inquired "Of course.' he replied.
 That day MT. Mckenzie deposited s5O01 in the National Park bank to the credit of Eva Lewis, and the next day he was off to the west. The stenographer, who knew nothing about cooking, to whom restaurant keeping was a theory, but nothing more, who had ideas but no ex- perience, then had to turn her back on office work and embark in a new field and prove that she was not altogether a visionary.
 On February II, 1905 (St Valentines day) she opened the queerest restaurant New York had seen up to that time. It was at Fulton and Nassau, two flights up. She called it the Princess club Membership cost 25 cents month The foodstuffs cost about the same, possibly a little less than in the general run of downtown eating places, but they were the best the market afforded.
 If ever a person was proved a true prophet promptly and fully Miss Lewis was in this instance. New York women certainly wanted such a place as the Princess. It did not matter that it was up two flights. It did not matter that it was a bit out of the center of things It had the convenienees women sought Girls f1ocked to it as they never had iocked to a New York eating establish ment before. The stairs of the old build ing creaked under the weight of the null t1tude that trooped in and out. Within few weeks the club had 1900 members In two months it had 2000
 or the 5000 MT. Mckenzie had put in the National Park bank to her credit Miss Lewis had use for only $500. That was all she drew. With the $500 she bought such furniture as she required She did not spend a dollar more than was necessary.
 There was plenty of settees, plenty of mirrors, plenty of accessories to the toilet but the tables were plain, the dishes were serviceable but not expen- sive. and there were magazines and books and pictures and papers and a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

something like five hundred billion tons Montana and New Mexico have large de- posits of Ignite and there are billions of | tons of it in Alaska
 Lignite Briquettes for the Railroads But have We had any practical tests of the value of lignite?
 '1t is used largely in Europe" replied the director of the survey. 'tGermany consumes 100000 tons of it annually, and in the shape of briquettes it is con sumed on many of the European rail- roads. It is also employed there for do- nestle heating and gas making Briduettes have been used experimentalIy on some of our roads and we have a number of factories which are now mak- ing them. The 'briquettes burn without olinkers, and I have seen it estimated that If they should be substituted for coal on the railroads, the saving in our coal consumption would be something like thirty million tons per annum The geo. logical survey has been making experi- ments as to briquette manufacture, and we have machines which will exert a. pressure of 2S,000 pounds to the square inch, forcing the Ignite into briquettes without the aid of a binder, such as pitch or some other substance Lignite coal can be used for gas making, and it will in time form large source of fuel sup ply for gas engines
 The Coal Lands and the Deserts
 What will be done with the money that the government gets from it's coal lands?" asked.
 That is very interesting feature in connection with the revaluation," said the director. ''The greater part of the government coal lands lies in the states which are retaining the deserts. and this money will go to the reclamation fund. It will be used to make reservoirs in the mountains. dams for the rivers a.td canals to carry the water out over the land. It 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 ere0it of the irrigation reclamation fund.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

! The amount, as I have said, Is about two | thousand billion tons. which means four thousand times the amount we are now using each year, plus 50 per cent added as waste.'
 A Million and Half Tens Daily
 How much coal do we use every year??''
 ] Our highest production was that of i 1907. when we used 4SO,00o coo short tons i That was about a million and half tons every day. We are now using little 1 less, but it would take more than BOG. o.Ooo trains of 30 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 Mir. Director" said I, If we use less than 500 million tons a year, would not those two thousand billions last us 40O0 years?"
 "I don't want to talk about years" said the head of the geological survey. but If any one wants to prophecy he can use those figures as basis, keeping in mind the fact that the increase in consump- ton of our coal has been remarkable,
 
 has exceeded the total previous consump- ton since we began to mine coal I mean to say that the consumption for the ten years ending with last year was greater than the total consumption dur ing the last century. If such a radio of increase should continue, which is impos- sibe, the life of our coal fields would be comparatively short"
 ''Can you tel! me just where our great coal fields are MT. Director?" said I.
 They are to be found in all but IA states of the union. They extend from northern Pennsylvania to Oregon and from Canada to southernmost Texas. You can get. the best idea of them from a map made for the survey by Dr. Camp bell couple of years or so ago."
 Here the director sent for 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 it he said:
 That great patch at the east is the Appalachian coal field and those spots to the right of it. at it's northern end, are the anthracite beds of eastern Penn sylvania. It is from there that comes the chief anthracite of the country. Those beds originally contained over nineteen billion tons of anthracite and at the close of the year 19o9 there were estimated to be over fifteen billion tons still in the ground. The Appalachian field contains much high grade btuminous coal good for colsing. and 1t is by far the most inn portant coal field of the union at the present time. A littfs further over is the eastern or Illinois coa1 bed. It covers an area as large as the Ntate of Ohio. and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07


 than 5,6 900 tons. or more than all the coal that Pennsylvania has produced or wasted up to date. Altogether it is esti- mated that there are almost two thou sand billion tons of coal of one kind or another in the public land states. It must be remembered that great deal of this is Ignite of such low grade that it will be many years before it is mined.''
 What is the character of the western coai?" Tt is of all grades. Some of 1t is an- thracite and some of 1t is high-grade bi- luminous coal. We have considerable an- thracits in Alaska, and also great quan- titles of bituminous coal which will make excellent coke and which, eventually, will be used largely in the industrial develop ment of the Pacific coast states
 T understand that you geologists are resurveying and re-valuing the coal upon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-07

vey coal statstician, the total production of coal in the United States up to date has been over eight billion tons, which, with the waste involved in mining, repre- sents an exhaustion of about twenty bil- lion tons. This is less than one-half of 1 per cent of the coal now known to ex- ist, and it leaves us more than go 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 70 per cent added as wasten
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13
FLAX IS PROFITABLE
Wonderful Paying Proposition In
Western Canadian Pralries.

So much Is heard of the wheat, oats
and barley grown in the prairie lands
Of western Canada, and SO much has
been told of the wealth to be made
out IF the raising of cattle on
the succulent and rich grasses
Of those fertile plains, that
most important product has been al
most lost sight Of, Flax. Recent press
reports advise us that on one of the
last boats to clear from Fort William
(at the head of Lake Superior) for
Buffalo, there were 241,000 bushels Of
fax valued at $583,220, and on another
boat leaving the same day there were
2SS,000 bushels valued at $4,000.
There has been big demand for Ca
madam fax this season, and the lake
movement has been very heavy. Flax
Is always sure crop. and gives to
the farmer who is anxious for quick
return after getting on his land, the
chance he Is looking for. There is
opportunity for thousands yet, on the
free homesteads Of 160 acres, and
many of these are available within
short distance of the lines of railway
that are already built or under con-
struction, either on the main line or
branches Besides these free grant
lands there is an opportunity to pur-
chase from railway and land COM
panies at reasonable prices.
The display of western Canada's
grains in the straw as well as
threshed grains and grasses recently
made at st. Louis was an excellent
demonstration of what the country can
do. 1t proved splendid as an illustration
of the resources of that vast prairie
country, which during the past year
has again proven its ability to pro.
duce excellent yields Of wheat, oats
and barley-and fax. Not only this,
but the splendid herds Of cattle are
source Of large revenue. There is
fund of information to be had by
reading the Canadian government lit
erature, copies of which may be had
free by applying to your nearest Ca
madam government agent
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13
MaladY North Having.

'I can't understand my husband,
doctor; am afraid there is some
thing terrible the matter with him"
What are the symptoms?"
well, l often talk to him for half
an hour at time and when get
through he hasn't the least idea what
I've been saying"
Don't worry any more about your
husband. 1 wish 1 had his gift
Stray Stories.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13
hoods s
SarsapariIIa

Cures all humors, catarrh and
rheumatism, relieves that tired
feeling, restores the appetite,
cures paleness, nervousness,
builds up the whole system.
Get it today in usual liquid form or
chocolated tablets called 9arsatabe.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13


hshed testimonial or used a letter
without the written consent of the
writer, and never has the Company
allowed these confidential letters to
get out of their possession, as the
hundreds of thousands of them In
their files will attest.
Out Of the vast volume of experience
which Mrs. Pinkham has to draw
from, 1t is more than possible that she
has gained the very knowledge needed
In your case. She asks nothing In re-
turn except your good will, and her
advice has helped thousands. Surely
any woman, rich or poor, should be
glad to take advantage of this gener-
Gus offer of assistance. Address Mrs.
Pinkham, care Of Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass.
Every woman ought to have
Lydia e. Pinkham's SO-page
Text Book. 1t is not a book for
general distribution, as 1t Is too
expensive. 1t is free and only
obtainable by mail. Write for
It today.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13
A Poultry Problem.

Which is correct" ask the sum-
mer boarder who wished to air his
knowledge. ito speak of sitting hen
or setting hen?"
81 don't know" replied the farm
er's wife, "and what's more, l don't
care. But there's one thing would
like to know: when hen cackles,
has she been laying. or is she lying?"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets first put up
40 years ago. They regulate and invigor.
ate, stomach, liver and bowels. Sugar.
coated tiny granules.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

The man who is anxious to let you
know that God Is on his tongue usual
ly has the devil In his heart.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13
AGAINST TEXTBOOK UNIFORMITY
illinois State Teachers EnergeticaIIJ
Combat the Proposition.

Chicago.-The Illinois State Teach
ers Association in a resolution sets
itself strongly opposed to state uni
formity of school books, expressing it
as the determination of the association
to exert all its influence to combat
such a movement.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13
FREE
ADVICE
TO WOMEN

Women suffering from any form Of
Illness are invited to promptly COM
municate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn,
Mass. All letters are received, opened,
read and answered by women. A wo-
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

Mrs. Winsiow'S Soothing Syrup.
For children tsething, softena the gums reduces In
nammaton ailaya pain, cures wind colo. 25c bottle
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

PILES CURED IN 9 TO IA DAYS
four druggist will rofund money II PAZO ONT
MHNT fails to cure any oaso OF Itching, Blind,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

Don't make the mistake of claiming
you never make one.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

Ever notice what poor care other
people take of their health?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

man can freely talk
Of her private i'll
ness to a woman;
thus has been es-
tablished this con-
fdence be tween
Mrs. Pinkham and
the men of
America which has
never been broken.
Nauar hos c1,a ,1,h
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

Free lunch is sometimes pretty ex-
pensive food.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13
Where Resinol Ointment is Known II
10 Considered a Boon to Humanity.

II the soothing and healing prop.
critics Of Resinol Ointment were gen.
orally known 1t would be universally
ised to the exclusion of all others. II
is indeed boon to humanity.
w. ]. Callan, Brooklyn. N. 7.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

land Ave, Chicago, III, says: MY
eyes were puffed from dropsy and my
face and feet terribly swollen. l was
laid up for three months and although
I doctored, received little benefit.
Doan's Kidney Pills relieved the aw-
full back pains, stopped the swelling
and made me feel 100 per cent. bet
ter"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by all dealers. 80 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

must keep your
kidneys well.
There is no bet
ter kidney rem
edy than Doan's
Kidney PHI 8.
They cure sick
kid n e y 8 and
cure them per
manently.
Edward Por-
sche, 1888 Cleve.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

The next time you feel that swallowing
sensation, the sure sign of sore throat,
with three parts water. 1t will save you
days and perhaps weeks of misery.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

There is always poison in the
wound that is inflicted by friend.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

The reason the bigot advertises his
one idea so vigorously is that 1t IL
his whole stock in intellectual trade.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13
Important to Mothere
The Pronouns,

Tho Pronouns. :.
I'VE must economize." said the
man of high financial authority
"Your grammar is at fault" replied
the ordinary citizen. why do you
insist on using the first instead of the
second person pluralr"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-01-13

Avoid pushing to the front by going
back on your friends.