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Show The Formation of Coal. It takes a prodigious amount of vege-Je vege-Je matter to form a layer of coal, it iog estimated that the present growth the world would make a layer less m one-eighth of an inch in thickness il that it would take a million years of getable growth to form a coal bed ten ;t in thickness. The United States has area of more than 440,000 square miles coal fields, and more than 110,000 tons coal were mined in this country last ir, enough to run a ring around the ith at the center five and one-half feet ie and five and one-half feet thick, mpetent scientists say that there is suRh coal in the United States to sup-r sup-r the world for the next 2,000 years. "York Telegram. |