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Show A CENTURY OF ANTHRACITE First Ton of Hard Coal Reachsd the City of Philadc'phia Jut One Hundred Years Ado. i An pvon hundred yrnr.s have elapsed slnco one WllltuinWurts, a Philadelphia Philadel-phia tiierchnnt, drove his tenia of m tiles with the first ton of anthracite through the firliiir frehet nnd bog limit In lite banks of iIil' 1'ehiwiire river and Healed the new fuel down tho rher to 1'hltnilelphla on n pine log raft. Hut he experienced no little illlll-cnlty illlll-cnlty in that first anthracite year of 1820 In overcoming the popular objection objec-tion that the conl wm "wcU-einely slow of lighting." t'lne log raft floated only rtOS totn of nnlhriicltu that year. Hut It fetched n prltt- of $12 a ton and could he delivered frelght-on-raft Philadelphia nt ?.'! n fact that was freely ndvertlvd lo attract additional capital, for, of, cotine, there was no proflleerlnc In Ihoie dny. Spring freiheta and hog Innd and slow luflniimiiililllt.r no longer worry operators. Silk shirt for miners are a bigger miKmce. Hut production In a hundred jenrs has Jumped to SO,--tW.tXX) tom, nnd could this year sur-pnfi sur-pnfi the KH) iiillllnn-loii mark, which wits nlmiiHt renclicil in 1017, Kradlng, Wllkeshnrre, I.ehlgh, Manili Chunk these nnmes are sp'ukeji one thouiiand times hourly In the Industrial world today, simply be-eniise be-eniise there lay up In the hills of I'enn ylvanla n hard, black nuli'tnnce, ant len of which sly old WMllam Wurts sTeerc'd on raft tTown the Delaware to l'hllailelphls, Juit one himdred years ago. Wull Street Journal. |