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Show 1UAL IN IRELAND. In the geological and mining survey of Ireland tho government inspector has reported thru that country contains some of the richest coal mines in the world At present the whole yield from the old collieries h hut 120.000 ton ptr nnnutn. ns many of thoiu are worked but It t-bly, wl.'ry oi hers are "ruiiftid to !iu entirely idle .New York "World." At last the " geological and ininiog" surveyors have discovered what millions mil-lions of tho Irish have known for generations. gene-rations. Ireland is rich in coal, in lead, in silver, and with some gold, lut it has been the policy, sustained by heavy owners of English eoal mines, in securing a market for their own coal, to prevent the working of tho coal beds in Irelund. Within ten miles of at important a city as Belfast the coal can be kicked out of the earth by any pab.scr, the veins aro so near the surface sur-face ; yet an impoverished popu-lat'on popu-lat'on have been compelled to buy English and Scotch coal at thirty shillings shil-lings a ton, because Irish landowners were overawed by English capitalists. Let the mineral veins of Ireland be worked, and starvation will not drive her children by the hundreds of thousands thou-sands to other lands Becking means to live. |