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Show CANADA HAS LARGE SUPPLIES OF . COAL Camilla pnoM.'os r,f) j,er cent, of the CM.'il or the Pfitish empire and 1 I p-r c-iil nf the known coal r.soi i res uf the whole world, accordiuj; to l .) i '.i u;i d ;;i n Information bure:iu. 'liie;- coal ;ir.-;iH contain lil.hl! .square mlh s. Pi addition, there urn ilcpnsiiH of pe-it, n; 1 1 i :i hi lor fuel. fei i mated at 3!i,fMio :-oj i:;t i- milc. AlbiMia is credited with 75 p-r cent to Sll per rent of I he entire coal at. a. Nominally Nomi-nally S(i:tkaiche'.vaii eome.-i s coml, hut, Its dfpr,si!s beinu Ilunlto, it do r. no! rani; as hij.;h in liiipu; tanee an Hum- of t:ie til her pi o inces. J !rit i.ui rohru i.in , wit n Its Mini) square miles of eo.i 1 nda. is easily second. After if come--. Nova Scotia, Sco-tia, which, though it Im.i hut .'.Jl rii;.iv miles of coal laudn, Is . I n ia t e.l 'o .,n-laln .,n-laln 111;:' 1 .OiiO, rum tons of hi i u m inous coal. New Urtinsu'li-k's coal depodts ha'e as yet not p-c'ivnl niudi enusiucai ion. Nova Scot ia, Alb'Tia, and I 'a it -a Columbia Co-lumbia arc, at present, the. center of the coal inlniuf.: ludust rv. 'J'hcv prod in e a. .out four-fifths of the .-ot'r.- annual 1 oa.l mined iu the dominion. Their production pro-duction dur lns' the past, two years v,:i:i :;'.M('.!fs-1 tons. Kvit-nshe experiments havn be,-n enn-duef enn-duef ed Uh Pie view to pt-rfc ! in a process that would make possible com-prosmnn com-prosmnn of liniti' into a form combining requin-d heat units and which could be "isby handled and sod at a p. ice that j would make the produd a real comricr-cial comricr-cial comiKiHtor of anthracite, coal. Pe-Ih'vln Pe-Ih'vln It hns found what it has been a fter. Lie liKulle. boai d lias decided to erect In Saska t c'r.ew a n a deiaunst i a : ion paint eapaide of turning out ;;o,im'u tons of briquelles a yi-ar. It is also claimed tlie.-o can he sold at a cost less than ibat of antliracito belore the outbreak of tliu war. |