Show i America Is Worlds World's Coal CoalBy Bin By Ira C. C Tichenor- Tichenor I ENCOURAGING progress of the oil and coal land leasing bill bitt billin in congress and the inauguration of the miners miners' strike seem to attract attention to the fact that the United States contains more than half of the coal deposits of the world This stat statement ment undoubtedly will 1 be a surprise to many people who h have ve be been n und under r the Impression as the result of England's Immense production pro pro- of ot coal and its great reat export trade in the product of Its mines that the island nation was as blessed with the greatest known deposits of coat coal As a a. matter of tact fact however the amount of England's coal deposits are extremely small as compared with those of the United States Canada's Canadas coal deposits next to the United States are larger than those of any other c country yet they are only 17 per cent of the worlds world's total as compared i with 52 per cent for the United States State Thus it will be seen that England's j. j lI supply is what might be trivial as compared with that of this country It if Is an interesting tact fact too that while Canada stands second to the States in coal resources our Northern neighbor has haR been the chief I purchaser of Americas America's exports of ot coal 1 Another interesting tact fact is that by tar far the greatest amount of the coal I d deposits in the United States are located in the Western Vestern portion of the 1 country and of this district the Rocky mountain r region glon of which Utah is a apart part leads n With the assured development of ot the coal resources of Utah and with I the possession by the United States of a real merchant marine this state is certain to become one of the most p important coal districts of the world |