Bisbee daily review., 1912-12-27
NEW ANTHRACITE
 FIELD IMMENSE
Pennsylvania Mines Dwarf ed by Comparison with Those Developed
 in Canada
TENTH ON CONTINENT

CHICAGO, Dec. 26-CoaI fields re- gently discovered that compare with those of Pennsylvania add enormous area to the anthracite fields of the continent The entire Pennsylvania anthracite region is $500 square miles. and already 1900 square miles Of coal claims have been staked ia the new Groundhog district north Of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway east and west through central British Co lumbia.
 From the Pennsylvania fields. only one seventh Of which are underlaid with coal over 100000, 900 tons an- nually are taken ont, of a total value Of S200,0O0,00G and a potential value far greater because of the stupendous industries which have grown up around and because of themJ
 Not even the decision of the Grand Trunk Pacific to build across the prov ince of British Columbia created such d stir on the Pacific slope of Canada as the discovery of this coal. If all the province were barren of other nat ural resources these anthracite fields Tying northeast of Prince Rupert would make British Columbia rich, 2" declared one authority. The verbal re- ports Of c. s. Mallock of the DOmin- Ion Geological Survey, who has spent this season in the district, are said to be very optimistic as to the ex- tent and quality Of the coalfeId.
 Little anthracite comDaratiyeIy isl obtained outside Of Pennsylvania and there geologists have said that 9fI Tn ,F Tks n have been removed by denudation. However there was enough left tOI produce s152.036, AS of wealth in 1905.
 This adds the tenth well defnedI coalfield on the continent. GeoIogistsI have found that during the coal form. ing periods there was in North Amer lea slow westward shifting of the zone in which conditions were favor able 10 coal formation. Some of the western fields showed disposition to be wayWard and refuse to be classi- fled as the scientists thought theyl should be. The discovery of a vast quantity of coal in central British Co., lumbia, it is said, was not all in order. l but especially remarkable in the fact that the coal is largely of anthracite | quality. This may revive the red hot | controversy whether the anthracite is anthracite because Of the pressure of overlapping coal, shale, stone and i conglomerate masses upon the prehis- l toric vegetation of the good old Ter | uary or Carboniferous days, and oth- CT days of Cretaceous and Triasic times.
 The great Appalachian fields. which | compromise as a whole parts of Penn l sylyania, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, | West Virginia. Eastern Kentucky.I ! Tennessee. Georgia and Alabama pro duee the major supply of the supply for the country and for export when the market is opened abroad as last winter by paralysis of the mines of Britain or other countries which have 4 been provided by Nature with well I stored cellsrsful of fuel. Germany in 1903 produced half as much coal as did the United States.
 It is now believed that the fact that much of the coal in the new field is at an elevation and to bs mined. therefore by gravity. will give the development of the mines great impetus. Whether this will hasten the cf the region in manu lacturing and produce during the next few years the miniature of the Pitts. burg region will depend upon the II deposits, if they are what they prom. se.