Show COAL AND IRON the important relationship of these two valuable liberals line rals statistics show that whereas great britain in 1810 1840 produced 75 per cent of the worlds supply of coal at the present time it produces only 34 per cent atlantic liners no longer carry coal from great britain for tho the return journey they now tako take in americal Ameri call cai coal and an d no less than tons of american coal were thus consumed in 1895 tho condition of the iron manufacturing fac turing industries has always exercised a most important influence on the production of coal so that a large domand demand for iron draws with it a large domand demand for mineral fuel during the last 25 years the worlds production of pig iron has increased from to tons hut but the share taken by great britain has fallen from per cent to 29 per cent while that of tho the united states has increased from 14 1 per cent to per per cent that of germany from 11 4 percent to per cent and that of russia from 3 per cent 0 to o 47 per cent indeed iron is now boing imported from tho the united states into this country and incredible as it may seem the railway station at mid the center of the iron trade is built of iron brought from belgium surely then the author of our coal resources at tho the close of tho the nineteenth century is hardly right in thinking that british coal and iron still hold their own he argues that other countries of europe are exhausting their coal supplies just as great britain is yet the figures he gives show that germany has in reserve within a depth of feet tons of coal as compared with our En glands tons within a depth of 4 feet and this est estimate estimator imato does not include brown coal of which germany raises tons toes annually nature |