Show AS TO THE USE OF FUEL john mitchell in his talk to the conference of governors at washington a few daya days ago left no doubt of the reckless extravagance of this country in the use of coal and the coat of life at which it Is mined mining experts predict that under present methods of production the coal depo deposits its of the united staten states will be entirely exhausted within two hundred years under th the c present process or burning only 5 to 10 per cent ol 01 0 the heat units unit in b bituminous Itu minous coal are utilized the remaining 90 or 95 per ceni cent being wasted our extravagant wastefulness in the use of our fuel cugsly supply ia is equal equaled led only by our crl disregard Is regard for the personal safety and the lives of the men who toil toll in the riffie for every tons of coal produced a mine worker ia is killed and and leeral are injured for each one thousand men employed arc aro killed annually last year nearly twenty alvo hundred c d men were killed and more than six thousand wen seriously injured in this mining industry of our country no other country in the world shows us large a percent percentage agit of fatalities lont before the th expiration of the time at which the experts esti estimate sti nate mate exhaustion ot of the coal its use will be abandoned the streams and the air will be utilized for heat light and all other keeda of power great sections of the country are using coal coel simply from the force of habit when its cost haa has frown drown a little more out of proportion to that of the it 14 4 used to manufacture the harness will be thrown upon the waterfalls which aw now running to waste alen the water power is well under service the air will be explored until the teckler rec kleaB breeze is bridled and made to labor for 1 man aan it might not ot be wrong to assert that the only curn bustion of the next century will be modeled after that of the animal stomach the energy developed by the horse from a baund of grain is natures suggestion of real economy in the use of fuel now that mrs guinnee guinnes ladean is dead what ae sm we going to do with the over supply of lone widowers and bachel bachelors rs in this country |