Show MINING OUTPUT 13 i TIMES OTHERS ONY ONLY 2 A A Writing Wilting In iii II tho thio Do De Pont Font Magazine Editor Ji Jl n. n n. n Shultz says In part Mining md metallurgy arc not devices of oC tho the century for Tubal ubal Cain was as ns a n. worker in metals and ver Vr since Inco that time tm men have o du dug from front tho the earth and Ca fashioned hem to their various uses However luring tho the century Just passed ell tho the use jf if f explosives has given Ivel a H tremendous Impetus to the tho mining nn and l has hns increased nl al l Industry Agriculture only anly twofold manufactures In- In only whereas th the mining rain min ln Lag ing output has Increased About 75 ii per cent of the total weight ht of DC minerals mined Is coal so hat that a review of the tho mining of oC coal would I cover tho the most Important and greatest l portion of or mining in the tho generic sense Too foo much Importance cannot be at attached at- at ached tache to this mineral as a chrysalis of oC of oC 1 force latent Intent energy energy energy-as as the tile greatest all modern industrial evolution So im important inn inn- al a factor has hns it I become In civilized civilized cv- cv life that It is with a shudder er that r. r n. n in fancy i conceive of a 3 time In 1 which I 1 the c supply of or this mineral ma inn may he be exhausted 0 Geologists e a 1 o it I s t a and s I a t is t tl I c inn s have havo more or less logically demon demonstrated that at the present rute rate o of consumption consumption tion the tho coal of tho the entire world will wil bo be consumed consumer In OO Ve years 18 1 In n answer to the question queston then the layman laman stands mote fears however howe are somewhat allayed when he thinks of oC the lie genii of the laboratory laboratory lab lab- oratory orator who aro are ever rea ready with tho the remedial power of substitution Ho 10 rests let assured in tho the bl belief that the th function of or the human brain is 18 to present present present pre pre- sent a solution for e cry c Cr problem as It arises and that this problem of oC fuel supply will wil be bc no exception In the lie meantime although speculation speculation specula specula- tion on a l s synthetic fuel Cuel ma may run high anti and ton theory vie with wih theory for establishment theof in fact w we se aro are sufficiently satisfied with this black grimy substance sub sob stance stanco and place upon It our hopes for comfort and well wel To 0 our Coreathers forefathers forefathers fore Core fathers athers It was unknown except as aa an obnoxious and unwelcome substitute for wood In n fact at the beginning of oC the nineteenth century the world was in comparative Ignorance of oC Its Is Industrial Indus mOos trial value Seventy five r e years ago aso 11 Il might ha have seemed a far cry Cr from the scuttle ut- ut tie tle of oC coal to the luxuriant vegetation of oC te a forest of oC mammoth trees But hut there thele ore are few individuals toda today who do not know the tho origin of oC coal coal If I our I present forests were uprooted overthrown overthrown over over- thrown and then covered by sedimentary I tar tary deposits such as those which covered coy cov I cov-I ere ered 1 the ancient coal Celd fields the amount of oC coal which would woul be formed torme thereby would amount to a thickness of two or I three Inches And yet vet wo we wt have hac coal coalfields coalfields fel fields s toda today the seams Beams of oC which placed one upon ullon the other in Immediate succession succession suc sue cession would total no less leas than 9 I 29 feet teet of coal coal It I will wi bo be possible therefore therefore there there- fore foro to form torm some faint taint Idea of oC the enormous growth of oC the ve vegetation re required required required re- re to form some somo of oC our richest coal Clel fields I This mineral ral used as a fuel was first m mentioned fils by about B B. 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C from Crom which it i is inferred that coal anI was dug up previous to this thus time dUG Excavations In England brought forth orth i flint axes and other Implements of oC a alike alike I like nature embedded In layers of ot coal of coal b by and n Indicate the excavation o workmen of or the Stone Age Ase The fact tact that coal coni cinders have ha c been found In ol old Roman walls wals together with wih Roman Homan tools and Implements goes to prove that coal was used for heating purposes prior to the Saxon Invasion h The he first charter granting permission permission sion Mon to dig and gather coal coni in the New New- ew- ew I castle castlo fields w was WU Ii given Kiven i en the Newcastle In II 1239 ana the coal coal as an Important ma may be said eald to have uT ra U Uma b time Th The coal win rains min begun berun at not nol previously an r existed en eien mont meat of the II I and their fuel ruel from the eOl vast the tue charcoal burners or t thoy h were ea called hurner t or colier coni n proclamation Opposition maton through prevent prevented r ei except In s parel its Is beis l gland England The I Lc that the strongest coal l tha was lion tion In ni Jn Injurious Ilus to London n J M Mat at Prohibition on were made nt J aUt t was considered inimical of oC the to th Ih inhabitants inhabitant bu onward rush ruah of oC Indu however i In bc began an to 0 b be re d valuable u as the the It 1 might well wel be said material for I tion ton made malc seven en centuries lai that t th tb o J same samo objection aO ton that arl arises 2 u ly hy that tho the smoke tory n plants and s SOt ot 01 ei are ia I of oC Indus industry l S A COB Coni In A S A ine discovery o of oC r j co cc lea was ma made mado lc In OlaA in i Is chronicled b by 11 Th te e T r Jesuit explorer Th The tint f I was excavated near k c coi S1 J about 1751 4 and the an second It Uy Ity of oC Pittsburgh about aboul iSik in Vf coal w was s 15 I La near discovered Barre p-J p Pa b by v Xh ith Vl o ft At All AU Allis I is rela related tel that A Alien hen Pa abut bolt Ut la encamped encamped rapt night and anti built his Ms fire 1 small ill black lf buit t upon UDOn ral tones th that t lay about In profusion lon hlavin s-at s U supper he went to lo sleep Ja a was awakened In the 1 UI 11 nl night ht by middle of oi t heat and ou hi self lying In a bed or of fIame stones were all al on fire arid fames c escaped with bI hI lit lie He nn he b br lle stor story of hl his hla adventure ad far tol an and shortly and shorty organized to mine and ship ston stones to th tb tj s b maker a worthy colonial lla Colonti Colone S lb was at the h head ad of oC the upon ripen his lila recommendation most e or first con consignment wa was sold In lint city of OC nOt cl of coal Philadelphia iQ m t for use In Iii the o Tho en engineers did not understand i to burn it and broke it Il u up to Ira gna the yards ar 1 A feeling of or against Colonel Sh Shoemaker arose ro i ho wa was waa denounced as a a rascal Pos for h ing Bol sold the tho 1110 city cly Instead stead rsc o of t I ft in 1814 8 two tao 1 or of larK large lare I ha Ia of oC coal twenty one to a ton w r i at the falls Cals of 1 wet m was wasted In futile futo attempt mor io 10 0 b tills this coal coal and at noon the TJ hi his workmen n discouraged at their luck shut UI up the furnace and et dinner On their return they were Veit to find a roaring fire lire furnace doors door red hot and the 1 Itself ol in danger of or inciting From Front t day dates ates tho the successful use of ot cle cite In America It 1 Is la a fact that at the coal coal If not the ruler of oC Industry U Li I essential to lO the the m of oC world progress It lt I was the th t tra ra cause Ise of the rapid manufacturing nineteenth century an and commerce la ln II t. t Together with steel It Is I a a ft f. fu S prominent in the civilization of ot the ie nod t through h rou which we I are ae ulf |