Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-17
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| tehhSyiNduld output from ma
tural resources during 1917 is CAL
culated by Col. Henry C. Demming
the geologist and mineralogist, to
have been worth the enormous sum
or almost $4,000, 100000 in a com
pilation of data on the subject made
Tor Smulis legislative handbook for
1919 ana he says there are 679 min
erals found in Pennsylvania, many OF
| which are profitably mined. The
Value or the natural resources output
is stated by Col. Demming to have
been made UP in the case of COAL
COKE, natural gas and petroleum
from prices of first wholesalers and
not from the pit mouth or derrick
ana ne notes that much of the culm
is now utilized. Mining of dolomite,
corumdum and emery is mentioned
In the table for the first time thi,
year. The aggregate value of the
proc ucts is given at $1,959,735, 5,069;
bnuminous ccal leading with 1881.
O46, l55; anthracite being next with
S5S7, ,1O4,620; while coke production
Is valued at S2,416,S40, with a
value of SS4,167,110 for coke by
products. The petroleum is valued
at $24,166,309 and natural gas at
S17, S61, ,4O6. Brick and tile are CIV
en- as 15,144,231; iron ore is valued
at S2,9O2,2S3; portland cement at
S19.66S,S18; glass sand $2,241,482;
limestone and lime $6,112,491; sand
and gravel S2,901, Ali; slate S1,21O.-
4Sl; stone, including granite, marble,
etc, $5,244, 1856; trap rock, $2,865,-
81; zinc, $2,142, 1913. Among the in
teresting items in the list are silver
$112; gold $60S; asbestos $146;
platinum $62; canister 1884; min
eral waters $244,41S; graphite, $79,-
$50; peat, $5,491; mill stones, $S11t
salt $4,1S6; tale $69,124; chromite
S8,140.
Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio,
who was here yesterday for a short
time, on his way to Washington,
was keenly interested in the plans
for Capitol Park extension improve
ment and the monumental bridge
Governor Cox was in Congress with
John K. Tener and was here soon
after the man from Charleroi sign
ed the bill for the park improvement
purchase. He was a visitor here
subsequently and has noted the way
the state has taken down the build
ings in the district.
The proposed monumental bridge
is attracting much attention from
men who visit the city from various
sections as those familiar with the
matter have long recognized that 1t
was needed. Auditor General
Charles A. Snyder, who was one of
the first to suggest that the bridge
be erected by the state and city,
= has lost no opportunity to tell peo-
= pie about what a splendid adjunct
to the Capitol district it can be
made. The park improvement
|, plans have support in little expected
} places.
Two drunken loafers annoyed
: everybody living in the vicinity of
Front and State streets for several
hours yesterday morning, their
4 maudlin yells and vulgarity and pro-
. family arousing the whole neighbor-
hood. 1t ought to be possible to
trail these disturbers of the peace
S and punish them adequately as a re-
straining influence upon their own
conviviality and an example to
others.
= Members of the Harrisburg Re-
serves will assist Captain Francis II.
Hoy, Jr., in the instruction of draft
ed men from Harrisburg who will
go to Camp Lee next week and who
may be on the list to be called later
on. Captain Hoy has been identi.
fled with the Reserves since their
formation and as drillmaster. made
} the Zembo patrol one of the best
drilled organizations in the state.
/ He has had much experience in
e drilling and served in the Spanish
War.
Ex-Auditor General A. e. Sisson,
who was here yesterday tells an in
| teresting story about the housing
situation in his home city of Erie.
Erie is on a boom which is little
! realized by other cities and is MAX
ing all kinds of munitions. electrical
appliances and destroyers. The in
f1ux of population has been so great
that trolley lines have had to be re-
routed and big factories erected,
while the housing situation has be-
, come so acute that the government
will build 1000 houses. The sites are
being selected and where high prices
!. are asked, the government just takes
,, the land and settles for it later on.
Ice cream venders who occasion
: ally figure in the reports of the City
Health authorities as dispensing
cream that is an abiding place for
some millions of bacteria, ought to
realize that they owe 1t to them
selves and to their customers to give
a public explanation as to what they
have done to correct conditions.
State authorities are keeping an eye
on Harrisburg. and determined that
there will be no repetition of the
typhoid outbreak of a few years ago.
Bohemians in this section of Penn
sylvania are greatly interested in the
developments in Russia, where the
Czecho -Slovak activities indicate the
solidarity of the Slavic race against
the inroads of the Hun. For more
than four hundred years the Bo-
hemians have been resisting the en-
croachments of the Germans. and
Harrisburgers who were in Prague
before the outbreak of the war
could not help feeling the shoulder
ing resentment of the native popula-
ton against the Germsn attitude in
business and in all the activities of
the country So 1t is not surprising
that the Bohemians and all the
Slovak people are ready to cast their
lot in every possible way with the