Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1913-01-01
new ANTHRACITE
FIELD IN. CANADA
Deposits Said to Rival Those
Of the Pennsylvania
Fields.

Chicago, Jan Coal fields recently
PENNSYLVANIA add enormous area to the
anthracite fields of the continent. The
entire Pennsylvania anthracite region
is 5000 square miles Already lso0
square miles oil coal claims have been
staked in the new Grounding district
north of the Grand Trunk Pacific rail-
way east and west through central
British Columbia.
From the Pennsylvania fields, only
one-seventh of which are underlaid
with coal, over 100.000,000 tons annu-
ally are taken out, of total value or
5000, 000, 600 and potential value far
greater because of the stupendous in
dustries which have grown up around
and because of them.
Not even the decision of the Grand
Trunk Pacific to build across the
province of British Columbia created
such a stir on the Pacific slope OF
Canada as the discovery of this coal,
IF all the province We're barren OF
other natural resources these antltfa-
cite fields lying northeast of Prince
Rupert would make British Columbia
rich" declared one authority. Inc
verbal reports of G. 5. Mallock of the
Dominion geological survey who has
spent this season in the district. are
said to be very optimistic as to the
extent and quality of the coal field.
Little anthracite comparatively is
obtained outside of Pennsylvania and
there biologists have said that "a to
80 per cent of the original deposits
have been removed by denudation
However there was enough left to pro-
duce S152,o36,44S of wealth in 1903
This adds the tenth well defined
coalfield in the continent Biologists
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 to coal formation. Some OF the
western fields showed a disposition to
be hayward and refuse to be classified
as the scientists thought they should
be. The discovery of a vast quantity
Of coal in central British Columbia, 1t
is said, was not all in order, but es-
pecially remarkable is the fact that
the coal is largely of anthracite quail
ity This may revive the red hot con-
troversy whether the anthracite is an
thracite because of the pressure of
overlapping coal, shale, stone and con-
glomerate masses upon the prehistoric
vegetation of the good old Tertiary or
Carboniferous days, and other days of
Cretaceous and Triasic times.
The great Appalachian fields, which
comprise as a whole parts Of Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Maryland Virginia, West
Virginia, eastern Kentucky Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama produce the
major part of the supply for the coun-
try and for export when the market
is opened abroad as last winter by
paralysis of the mines of Britain or
other countries which have been pro-
vided by nature with well-stored cell
larsful of fuel Germany in 1903 pro-
duced half as much coal as did the
United States.
1t is now believed that the fact that
much of the coal in the new field is
outcropping at an elevation and to be
mined therefore, by gravity, will give
the development of the mines a great
impetus. Whether this will hasten the
development of the region in manu-
featuring and produce during the next
few years the miniature % the Pitts
burg region will depend upon whether
the deposits are what they promise
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If your watch passes rnrough our re-
pair dep artment and does not give sat
isfacton we will give new move
nnent in exchange.
CON w. HEsSE, JeweIer.