Show 0 6 ursy T europe wants recognized AS A SUPERIOR 6 ARTICLE BY MANY cuir coal NATIONS I 1 the prospects as seen by lm impartial partial observers after leveral months have elapsed indicate that american coal both anthracite and bituminous Is in a fair way to win a perma permanent neat demant demand our consuls in europe report that the london gas companies are pleased with their experiments with our gas coal fifty per cent more gas has been yielded per ton by some samples not withstanding a considerable margin margi a in tavor favor of coal in the matter of prime cost the demand tor for samples Is growing and our anthracite coal which has been heretofore unknown in europe is found riot to any mined in great britain there Is however a disposition to insist on 70 to 80 per cent of carbon as ae Cur european coal of lower pereen percentage tage than that Is 19 simply inexhaustible france produces 32 tons ani an 1 consumes 42 annually heretofore she has imported from great britain belgium and germany cardiff coal does not break up into a ai small email lumps as american coal does but pocahontas Pocahont aa coal gives almost equal results for steaming purposes in both wales and prance the labor demand to la gradually raising the price of coal no BO even with occasional strikes in our V coal regions we are riot not obliged to tobert inbert in a parenthesis other things bo bing equal in calculating on the foreign market for american mat col the th great trouble Is not in the lity ol od our coal or in the danger of 0 here but in the ocean freight ates oad f r the thoughtlessness thoughtless nes of american coal men who fill to study european Dur cua cm OW I 1 j toms toma as to size ot of joal anti and the metrical system astern of measurement and anaw BI als 6 ten men in ruesta Aroe AMe ilian itcan coal equal to the bast welsh coal Is selling for a slightly lower figure prices in austria are excessively high and italy too is if feeling the seal city severely having no native american coal Is ic just invading spain and algiers and to in both tile HIP consumers con find it equal la in quality to what they have been using honesty and common sense in pushing tile the american product tire are certain to result in a great european market for both anthracite and soft coal tor for gas and stearn steam put posts |