Deseret Evening News | 1900-08-30 | Page 3 | Another Coal Famine

oal I I St It Johns N r ir Aug u SOA cOIl coal famine noW threatens the colony of New NewFoundland ew lb establishment of a 1 large lup smelting enterprise at t Id Sydney I absorbs Ute the greater part of the th Cape I Breton output and d the allure of Reid Idi mInes leaves the colony without an any local product Sydney coal has hal advanced thirty per percent er cent and there la is probably not enough to supply the winters winter demand demud Mr r Yield Iteld the railWAY contractor la I likely to be most mOlt effected hi his traIns traill and nd steamboats absorbing fully a third ot of the th colonial imports