El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-02

veins are only three feet thick some OF
our Pennsylvania veins are from 30 10 so
feet thick. and the bituminous coal near
Plttsbgrs measures from eisht 20 is feet.
while in tho coal fields Of Alaska we
have great beds which are 80 feet thics-
And now let us look az our own culi
reserves i have before me some figures
made this year 10y pr. l1arius r. Clmo-
1ell one OF the leading experts of the
-rucn coal We have and how long IT. viii
probably last We need not be worried
about the Immediate future. The amount
SO Ear used is only fcur-tenths OF one par
cent OF our available supply. and We shall
be mining coal down To our srandchi
dren OF ten generations or more. We can
keep up our present rate OF production. liz
I Guiding all the coal we are taking out
Tor fighting the Germans Tor three or
four thousand years and shall allow an
q enormous amount for waste in mining and
. handling.
Belgium Mines Deepest Of All.
Some OF the mines Of Belgium whi-h
are now worked by the Germans are 5000
feet deep They are the deepest coal
mines Of the world. but the mining OF
the future viii probably be carried TO
depth Of 5000 feet. or more than q mile
underground
The estimates OF pr. Campbell as 20
our available coal include those down
20 depth Of only 5000 feet. or Nt-,=
more than onc-half mile below the sur
face Ills estimates run into the thou
sands of billions OF tons I shah not give
the amount is SO great that If it could
be drasged forth and laid in one pile as
solid as it now lies in the ground IL wound
form cube more than Il miles wide l.
miles thick and IS miles high.
Let Us build up the coal into srear for
rilicaricus around our own boundaries.
There is coal enough in the ground %
make Tal a mile wide and half mile
high around the outside OF the United
States and leave some TO spare
The length OF our boundary survey, Is
less than 1900 miles, and this wall OF
coal would De almost as much longer as
the di stance from New YORK 90 Chica go,
or we could cut the wall down and run
it around the United States in series
Of great 1orufications with wide trencnes
between suppose we made 10 500 feet
thick and 500 feet high, or as tail as the
Washington monument. which no tank
could climb over. The sreat wall OK
China built 20 keep out the. Mongois, is
only 50 feet high. This wall Of coal would
Dee l. times higher. That wall at The
top is less than - feet wide. this wall
would be 20 times thicker and il would
he more than 900 times as long It's ac-
tual length would be mere than 100000
miles, over twice as far as from here
20 the moon with enough LETT 10 make q
girdie six times around the earth.
sixty Times Around L =
That wall would go so times around
the whole United states or We could
build it ~ in So great walls. each as high .
as the Washington monument with lar-
tories and uunltion plants between With ]
that wall we could make a line of such /
Qualifications reaching all the way be- I
tween US and Canada and all along the I
boundary which separates US from our SIS I
ter republic of Mexico We would have .
enough 70 extend the line back Off che /
Pacific from the top OF Puget Sound 20 +
lower California, and along the whole 4
length Of our Atlantic coast from north I
ernmost Maine 10 southerumost Florida ]
and border the Gulf OF Mexico as VEL \
Talk about the HmdeuburE line. one for
#rfrHr q 8 n1aH nIlnl
and thickness would be enough % keep
out the Germans for all time 20 come
And now suppose we add TO the wall I
the small amount Of coal we have mined
we have dug from the earth since our
first mines were worked. near Richrncnc-
Va, ultu now. the amount would extend
The fortitlcation less than % miles longer
Tt would only b. fourteenth OF one per
cent Of The whole
These figures ere amazing Nererthe-
less, according TO Dr. Camp1eli they m
ciude our coal TO a depth Of over SHoe
feet and the coal grows scarcer and Z
scarcer we-shal carry out mines down
almost double that distance We might
possible coal supply. and not be far out
crest Alaskan Coal Fields.
Moreover, the coaIafields Of the above
estimates include only those OF the United
States proper They leave ont the enef-
nous coal beds we have iu Alaska, suue
" which are being opened Up by the new
railroad now building. We have bot
anthracite and bitumi l0us coal there and
vast amount ~ ignite. which may ue
more valuable in the future / saw some
hing Of the coal fields during my recent
-riD 20 Alaska ana have talked about
hem with Ur. Alfred H. Brooks, who
las spent more than Is years exploring
he territory and who knows more about
zoology than any other man upon eaElh
He says -oT estimate Of the coal we
have there would be 150. 9uo.aeo.000 tons
which is just about Two hundred ara
fifty times as much as rhe coal We USED
% 49, OF course. great part OF the
lass1an coal does not compare m qeall-E
with that we now mine. bu- the territory
has great beds OF good coal and the -ail-
cad has already reached the Aatauusha
fields. which have fuel fit tor the navy
And now Jet me tell you something
about the coal We have in the United
states proper and Just where u lies our
deposits here are about the best upon
ar-h. There is none that compares ln
extent and heating qualities with the an
hracite hed OF northeastern PenusylFania
and we have the Pocahontas and Other
Unanimous Goals. which are fuliy as good
& not better. than the famous Cardill
,oal IL England which has been the cnlet
leaning coal since the time steam Pc
gan 90 be used We have every grade
D. coal from this costly high power
anthracite down to the ignite or brown
coal, which the Germans are making. into
'ri0uetfes for their railroads
Ire fuel administration Is urging that
re buy our coa' from the mines nearest .
De- and that we do not use fuel thar re-
Iuires q long haul. The fact IS coal re-
luires more cars than anything else nn
he railroads III constitutes So per cent
81 all the freight carried. and IN the
.zstern part of cur coun ~ e. amounts q .
none than 90 per cerl of the tonnage- N +
re nevr carrying three tons Of coal Oh
Every ton % farm products and this is .
70 Notwithstanding coal IS mined liz 20 Z
tates OF the union. There IS scarcely
J place in the United States farther away
as- freiEhL
Where Bulk Of Coal ! Pound
1t viii surprise many 20 know that 3
he great bulk II our coal lies west o.
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