Indiana daily times., 1922-01-09
RAILROAD DEAL
OPENS MARKET
FOR COALFIELD
Indiana Region May Have
Outlet for 3O,OO0,0OO Tons
Annually.
VAST SUPPLY IN STATE

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cago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Rail-
way by the Chicago, Milwaukee st.
aul Railway, market for 30OO0,0OO
SYons of bitumfnous coal annually is
.z~bpened in Indiana coal fields. Richard
4ieber, director of the State cOnserva-
$~tion department, has informed Governor
Warren T. McCray. Mr.. Lieber points in
his letter to the Governor, that credit is
due the division of geology of the CON
servation department which, under di-
rection of DR.. William n. Logan, State
geologist, published many articles con
cerning the quality, quantity, value and
distributions of the coal of Indiana, and
which undoubtedly supplied the informa-
tfon whereby the st. Paul system was
able to determine the value Of Indiana's s
coal resources.
The conservation department is in
formed that this railroad system will
use about 3,000,O 600 tons of coal year in
addition to the coal being supplied from
the mines in other States intersected by
their system. in addition there will be
open to the Indiana coal fields a market
for 30,0O0,000 tons of bitGminous coal.
This market will be supplied largely by
Illinois and Indiana.
Should Indiana supply only one third
Of the total amount it will mean the
bringing into the State of approximately
$5000O,000 a year." Mr.. Lieber says.
LAND OF DOUBLE
PRODUCTION.
DR.. Logan, in an article printed in the
current issue of the Black Diamond
coal trade publication, on Goals of
the Allegheny Division in Indiana" sets
out that farming the top and mining
The bottom is what is taking place over
~ large area along the line Of the Chi.
fpagO, Milwaukee " st. Paul Railway in
& <3Indiana," and that production from
Fboth sides, or rather from top and bot
8 tom of farm land, should prove highly
remunerative.
Here we have two industries occupy
ing the same area, the one supplying
mans food, the other his fuel" DIR. Lo-
gan writes. "A drive over the top gives
one only an imperfect conception of the
magnitude Of the bottom industry. One
bftuminous coal mines in Indiana has pro
duced LIPS tons, 12S cars of coal, in
eight hours.
"The Allegheny Goals of Indiana are
of the bituminous variety" writes Dr.
Logan. "On freshly fractured surfaces
or unweathered surfaces the color is
pitch black, and the luster bright and
viterous. On weathered surfaces many
of the Goals present rusty yellow or
brown colors. The Goals split readily
along the planes of the bands of dun
luster, and are intersected vertically by
joint planes, which divide the Goals into
blocks of varying size. The fracture of
the Goals varies from irregular to cubical
and they possess n medium degree of
hardness for n bituminous coal"
CHARACTER OF
INDIANA COAL.
Coal III, of the Allegheny division, Dr.
Logan says, is one Of the thickest coal
beds in Indiana, ranging as high as
thirteen feet and rarely sinking below a
thickness of five feet. This coal, the State
geolOgist asserts is mined in Clay
Greene, VigO Vermillion, Fountain and
Parke Counties chiefly, though a coal oc-
fMsupying about the same horizon is mined
"a Crawford, Dayiess Perry and Spencer
Counties. Among the mining centers
are Turner, Staunton, Seeleyville, Jacon-
VILE Rosedale and COxville. Though
probably occurring as far north as the
southern part of Warren County, it is
not mined north of Eugene in Ver1nillion
County" he says. The coal in particular
is used principally as steam coal, al
though some Of it is used for domestic
purposes. 1t is used extensively for fuel
by railroads, cement and ceramic plants
and in the manufacture Of producers
gas.
Coal ", says DIR. Logan, is one Of the
best Goals in Indiana for domestic uses
It is also one of the best coking Goals.
Where it is best developed, as in the
Linton field, it consists of a solid bed
without partings and from four to six
feet thick. The main centers of mining
are Linton, Terre Haute and Clinton,
''alI prosperous communities" According
; TO DR.. Logan it is used as domestic coal
for the manufacture Of Illuminating and
, producers gas, to manufacture coke, as
! locomotive and steam coal, fuel in cera-
mic and metallurgical plants.
/ Coal V, is mined in ten counties chiefly
/ in Gibson, Vanderburg, Warrick, pike,
Sullivan, Knox, Clay, Greene, VigO and
/ Vermillion, Mining centers are at Boone
Vile, Newburg, BickneI, Princeton,
Petersburg, Ayrshire, Merom, Hymera,
( Duggar, Paxton, Terre Haute and Clin-
ton. One hundred mines are mining this
coal in Indiana. 1t is used as steam rail
way, producer gas and industrial plant
coal.
Coal VI is well developed in Greene,
Knox and Sullivan Counties. 1t is mined
in Sullivan and Vigo Counties, and to a
,~Iimtted extent in Warrick County. 1t is
&#hiefy used for domestic and steam pur-
poses. Mining centers are Sullivan, Shell
burn, Farmersburg, Terre Haute, Vim
cennes and west Of Clinton.
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