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Show Till: IOAI. NIUTI.V. Those who use coil, whloti meant nearly everybody In our larger towna end cities, Mldom rellect upon the fact that every thovtlful placed upon tho grate la n distraction for which there Is no replenliliment, thtt It Is si much toward the complete cxiiauellou of that kind of fucl,(C'oal was not used at nil In Kugland till about or shortly after the discovery of America by Columbus, Col-umbus, but the amount that ha been conrunicd since that tlrao Is altogether Incalculable, and the end, so far as Great llrltalu la concerned, cinnot now l far off. The, vaat meaaurm Ulnar tiled nt Newest lo havo been burrowel Into and followed foot by foot till the nellirr ojrtli lu that region Is one vaat cavern, or terlit of lavercs, from the tide and bottoms of which In places aomu ronslderablo coal yet, but Willi li grow less and less duy by day, I. atlll taken out. In view of thla condition and tho potslblu condition when total exhaustion exhaus-tion shall liaMi taken place, a ecloutltlo writer, Mr. J. D. Taylor, F, L. B., has a rellectlvo article In one ol the current periodicals. Ilia conclusions am not altogether exact, but suggist aotuu Interesting In-teresting food for thought. Hussy II l clearly Indicated that alter or by thu tlmo the period since the dlioovery of coal hua been doubled, or tay S3D year hence, there will bu wltueesed a marvelous mar-velous development cf economlo science. Coal, lout; before that, ut a form of energy will bo regarded at a tomowhat antique and worked out material. The ebbing and Ihwlng tide, the tilling winds, the water running run-ning to tbo ocean,; i rheiaovun volcaulo and earthquake eueryy,wlll havo taken Ita lace, ludied, u lieu of Inquiry and rifccarch now going on may possibly alleit thu commercial Intercuts of the wholu world within thu short spaco of tho next llvo years. This relates to the uteof petroleum, already being tried on btturaera and looomottvet of the Calanscn nnd vicinity. The coal-floldt coal-floldt of the world will certainly be worked out within a historically brief period, but u distinguished Ituialau chemist finds grounds for believing that petrokum la still being be-ing formed by thu action of water an heated mitalllo ilef-of.Ua, and that tho supply will be permanent. While none of us ur our Immediate Im-mediate descendant will ur tie tho tlmo previously spoken of, It 1 never tin less not to far an ay. Wo utterly fall tei realise It when wu look around tn and teo mountains beneath whete rugged exterior are deposit of coal which havo nuver yet been dliclom to tho light of day or tho eyo of mau; and when we know that of the ellt- covcrlea madu and work lerforaud the quantity lu tight It sulllolent for homu consumption for half a doreu generations to come, wo uroe.pt to cll. milt thusulject. If wu In Utah would then extend our Invtallgatlom Into that area of country of nhloh thu mat-em mat-em Bsnptte mountHlus form thu centre or nearly so, and would makun rer-onal rer-onal vl.lt to aome of tho coal fields there1, wu or aomu of ut Mould think ounrlves very foollali for giving such forebodings any plncu 111 the mental Viorkahep nt all. Then aro MVeral coal depoalts adjaueiit to tbu ilnelpul tonus ot Ban-1 Ban-1 1 to, aome ot which have Hen worked enough to show that theru Is nn abundance abund-ance of coal, but most ot tho people are still burning wood. Further east, In Cattln ulley nnd neighborhood, aru acres and aero ol tbo needful article; It is (tilted ns n fact that from thu side of tome cf tho canyons and ravines, great chunks of pure coal of tbo finest quality, Bonio ot them us large m nu ordinary house, jut out at though extending ex-tending an luvltntlou to tho human family to come along and hilpthtm selves. This kind of thing cnatisu rillef to the mind fully tqunl to thu depression engendered by the 1 itrecedlnir refiectloua: because, what ever may be thu ixicrl'nPe of our remote relatives who will clamber along In our fmtsteps down the oorrldor of time, we and thoae around us are secure. The element of tildahtHsa In nil compositions thus finds ixpret-lon, and why should It not? Thu "last man hovering over tbu lat fire," II euoh nu event should ovir take plucn nt all, la too utterly remote for ua lo evtu dimly appreciate It, |
