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Show WORLD'S SUPPLY OF COAL. Little Danger That Fuel Supply Will Run Out. Estimates mado for the German technical Journnl. Stahl und ElBen. place the amount of coal available for consumption in Germany at 2O.O.(40 tons; In Groat Britain nnd Iroland. 193.0OO,(K) tons; while that of all Europe la placed at about TOO thousand mllllonn. North America Is estimated to contain about CS1 thousand million tons. Theno arc far outclassed out-classed by Asia, and especially China, which alone Is said to contain 1200 thousand million tons or available fuel. Thc United States ceologlcai surve rciwrts that In the pro duction of anthrnclto coal waa tho largest on record, being C9.3J9.1J2 long tons. Otnolals of tho Pennsylvania are experimenting with a devlcM for loaillnc trains In motion with coal. It Is tho Invention of C M. Miller, a tolcgrupli operator for the company at Tyrone, Pa. |