Show U Us U. 8 Ss S. LEADS IN COAL One One Fourth rth Output of Mines Here Produced With I M Machinery Lon London on Feb Some Some Startling facts regarding American competition in Iii the coal coul hn trade e were brought out prominently by Waiter Waller Howley Rowley a n mining muting cn engineer of or L Leeds eds who visited I America merica in n 1904 with ith the British h InstItution Institution In- In s of ur Civil Engineers In a n pap paper r read the other day day day-be be before fore foro the Institution of or Civil En Engineers Rowley whoso hos paper papera a was entitled Some Observations of or a Mining Engineer Engineer En En- in Sn America remarked that citizens of oC America may thank the geological features of the thc great coal Mold held of ot the tho Appalachian chain for Cor their en comparative c lye fr freed udom om from smoke Since the United States has Jias been the largest coal producer Inthe in inthe inthe the world Co Coil t t of or Machines Le Less s. s The use uso of or coal cutting machines had been received far till more favorably In America than It ha had been here here- and nud while In England only about 2 percent per percent percent cent of or the output was got gal b by the tho use of or machinery in America no rio less les than 26 per cent of or the output was ma machine ruined mined In 18 11 the record tonnage on coal got cot In the states was wal 20 tons In lit 1902 1903 the output had bath son risen to tons TIt Time The output of or the unit united ell kingdom king king- dom thorn for 1903 was tons At present coal from frum torn tho the neighborhood or of was delivered on t tire the te Atlantic tl at a lower lowel rate Inlo a ton than thun coal ot ut a n similar quality was sold rl free o on onboard board In Iii I England n I and yet the distance die dis ls- ls tones tance of from Crom the thc seaboard aboard was about 00 miles It was this extreme extremely ex ex- low cost of transportation Urn that would compote compete with England Englund for COI export ex ex- port of coal to Mediterranean ports Predict Io s Io s rOle lot England We Ye must e expect raid fald Rowley In Inthe Inthe inthe the future futuro to b be beaten out of or tho the field bid here hele for in fifty years years' time England's coal supplies will be costing much more mOlo to work and we may expect shortly to find hinti that the production of Great Greut Britain Instead of continuing to Increase will become stationary It la Is Indeed fortunate for this try country that tha th the Immense coal fields of or Am America arc are rep t from Crom England Englan b by so man many thousand miles In this country coa coal now nO 1 Is being mined ft from m a depth o or of feet and seams scam are aa as low lo loas as ten Inches lucht's In thickness ss and andus us aft LS time gl goes on omi the cheap ar pt IH of coal will become a problem of In Increasing increasing In- In creasing difficulty i J. J j 1 t lC t i U |