Show george washington bees sees A coal mine in perm penn george Wh washington ington in the autumn ot of 1770 tode off to penn v yania ania with ith the primary purpose ot of Inspect lne a tract of 1600 sires acres ot of land tn in that state obtained for him by his hi agent captan captain crawford in his diary washington Washing note notes that mot onu on a certain sunday during thi thia he lie ard ballain baft ain cra crawford aford peered into a coal mine out of idle curiosity osley ty true to hia his love ione of washington further observes the coal as burning freely and abend ance of it I 1 with that washington seems to havo hite forgotten coal in 1 the multi felicity of hi his other interests with n live years the war of the bevo i luton was as to absorb all hia his time and efforts and after that the building of the united state states con atit ution and the establishment of a permanent form lom of government required his full attention lie ile lived to discover ahat hat a world of meaning he unconsciously arote into those final words of his dary 7 Abunda re of it the worlds reserves resents of eit all kinds 10 of t coal amount amounts to nearly 78 trillion metric tons we so leam learn from the division of information and pub cation of the united stales states geogre washington Washl reton bicentennial commie commis slon of this mass of latent pow er we vie have in the united states nearly 4 tr rl llon illon tons or neail 62 52 per cent of all the known coal embedded in the earth the posses elon oon inc nd the use of that coal nine bae utterly transformed the united states and the world tince since george agton a 5 day do in his time america was nits a na no ton von of farmer farmers small trader traders end and hard manufacturers it now 1 Is the greatest and ri cies ing nation in all history if it during the honors we ae are to pay him in 1032 washington could revisit re visit the country that his labors labom in war ar itra hip made possible thee forty eight states of today grown to rich through business and industry would first amaze and then delight him it would tike uk nothing from his greatness that he cut short his notice of the pr e of coal in america with alth the lit bret of words abundance of it 1 A few year years after the death of washington there occurred a combi of events such as not the fart farthest heEt sighted man could have foreE foreseen een it was one of those turns I 1 like the discovery of are or the invention of the wheel that almost overnight mer night sent tent humanity on new and upward flights flight of progress tr ogress the century closed with alth washington glon a death the immediately began with w ith watts watt a invention of the steam er gine the me coal to fire it va was as there in abundance machinery the railroad the steamship follow j ed ana an within 25 lears ears the orld was an a thing totally different from w what hat it t was aa when washington closed his upon it the very cry mine that washington visited on that october gunday sunday in 1770 as on the site of connells cannells ville pennsylvania soon to become the greatest coke producing center in tte world note too tco that he hr records laang ravn entered a mine an indication di that even een then coal had been due dug and iid but the stearn enone had vet et to be bom born from the brair brain of watts such coal as was mined warmed armed a few fes houses round about and washington hington turned his Ws bad barl en cn the vein with sith a cat casual u no bation 1 probable reflecting h his ll 11 inor thor the people livria rear that bed were u ere rather in luck it ck it that coal was sas in wider ne we durin washington a lifetime than Is usually supposed me Fise herc in his ill dories d arles hp he records the purchase of tha or that dunber ot of barrels of coal but its real importance was a secret of the future but hat an Im lm bowl glance at these contrasts and grasp if you yon can their meaning the first lint divo discovery iery of coil coal in america 1 va was as reported in 1679 by I 1 a pary ty of jesuit explorers they found it t near what hat Is now ottawa in III they probably cooked their venison with sith it and over a r cent ten vear bear period we ae took according to the states bureau of mines more than half a it billion tons of bituminous coal every lear much of it from illinois in money it t was ass worth a billion and quarter dollars every esery year it was worth bevona that aou OU may mav figure for or our tor for it moved the industrial du system of the greatest man nation notion in history I 1 coal was known in virginia as early as 1700 in 1750 a mine was as opened twelve miles above abate rich mond not not much above 75 7 5 miles mile from rom washington Wol hilton s home at mount vernor by 1789 this mine was as nipping shipping coal by water ater to philadel phia ahia new york and even enen to boson ton it was as used to warm arm the homes and of human beings from 1920 1921 to 1929 the mines of perin pennsylvania sill ants turned out every year 80 million tons of anthracite for that item of personal comfort chev paid every seir alnut millions of dollars the first con press of the united states in the firt of pros Pres dent once appropriated a meillon and a quarter find frightened the countr with its ex part of that t ton on was as for tire ti ck to warm arm the nices of the department of states mot not A pound ct ef coil cold ans as bought anthracite was sas fl first rs t d e cd bv pv the way may in island in 17 th bed t abatt wilkes P are vore first recorded in 1762 since 1807 accor drig to united states we se have hale n miro I 1 r rrt tv 4 billion tens tons of it to warm amer arner rn in tie same me period w sj mil 8 nearl 18 16 millions tons tom of bt minous coal to drive drue air hires our sh ell ps cur our ra railroads U end and ourselves I 1 there mere are three possible causes for tough ough pickles one Is a ane gar that la is too strong another Is too much salt in the solution A third Is too much sugar in the so to lution before vou jou start pickling be surf sure you have bave rel reliable lAble directions |