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Show KrentMi eff Bee"ar. The resistant of cedar wood t decay de-cay has lone bee famous, and cedar fencepoeta often last for generations. 'A. remarkable tastanee of the iadei strnctlbillty of opdar haa. been notod in the state of Washington, whero a forest ot hemlocks, noar Acme, has grown up over an ancient burled forj est ot cedars. The trunks ot cedar, although lying In a. moist soil, have boon almost perfectly preserved for at least 1C0 years, the length of time that tho rings ot growth show the hemlocks to have been growing above their fallen predecessors, New Coat-Cutting Machine. Revolutionary changes in coal mini Ing methods are promised upon the general introduction of a coal mining machine developod by II. A. Kuhn, a Pittsburgh mining and mechanical engineer. en-gineer. ' Tho dovlce, constructed of structural struc-tural steel, can attack the coal soam in any position, moving up or down or In any dlroctton In which the seam loads. It takes out more than ninety per cont of the coal In tho ground, whereas the best practice ot today seldom recovers mora than 70 per cent ot the coal. ' It Is stated that the machine has demonstrated that it can cut the cost of mining by half. It Is said that ten of them can produce over on .thousand tons of coat a day. Onlyj two men are needed to guide the mechanism of each machine, which takoa the coal from tho seam, cuts lt puts It on a conveyer and loads It In a pit car without a human hand toiiih ing It, v Electricity or compressed air can be used and so llttlo power is required that tlm cost thoreof Is less than ono cont a ton for each ton of coal mined. m |