Show T THE E ANTHRACITE COAL SUPPLY Edward D. D Parker Government coal inspector 1 sa says s 's at the present rate of consumption the anthracite anthracite i cite coal measures in the United States will be ex- ex Ji in seventy-five seventy years A proposition has been made to limit the use of hard coal in the great cities i of the East and added to it i is the positive assertion 1 that bituminous coal under proper combustion makes no smoke The people of Salt Lake would be most thankful to the receipt for combustion r g get proper or betI bet- bet 4 I tel ler still would woul like to see it applied to the great f smokestacks 1 of of Salt Lake that fo for ten years past v have been pouring their clouds of filth out upon this s s' s city tainting the air disfiguring houses an and foliage and inciting profanity in the soul of or e ever ery houser house- house br r 1 wile fc who vho ho prides herself on keeping house and furniture furni- furni f v ture tur in apple p pie order i But returning to the coal sup supply ly there ought to be mitigating circumstances on the Consumption of f coal Before seventy five yea years s we suspect t that all the power i in all the streams of the United the United States Stales will be absorbed to create light and find power Long before that time comes the cooking ironing ironing iron iron- ing warming house in the land should be done by electricity the same same as houses are lighted now And f j t M. M the limitations to this use are of course something which the ablest present electricians are arc about a as much at sea over as the most ignorant of us all for forthe forthe forthe the best of them admit that the that the present knowledge of the miracles to be wrought by is but in its A B 0 Cs C's s Again the mysteries of the tie air are are almost as much hidden as those of electricity What Wha will be done by compressed air one of these days the boldest scientist shrinks from predicting Then in inthe inthe the laboratories of the land many a chemist is exp experimenting ex ex- p to try to increase the efficiency of f flu flu- il illuminating 1 gas and to more cheaply produce it The discoveries of the past century Y have been marvelous and yet science has permitted d but few o of its secret doors to be opened We rather expect that before many years the I waters of the vagrant ocean will be compelled to supply the needed power t tp to transport the ships upon it and that the tides that thai come making their calls call's upon the earth daily daHy will have their power stolen and stored for mans man's use There Thero were no mistakes s made when the old world was freighted for her voy voy- age Everything needed for or mans man's use even to the end of the voyage was load loaded d either upon her decks h her r decks or down in the hold It is for man to utilize the gifts that he may have dominion over all |