Show OUR NATURAL RESOURCES T drilea nA EyrLy y i I A A in KW york have an excellent little the natural resources of ahe united by J pallon the author calls liu publications aiudi textbook tex lbook and its general M dellho well ho cate qulon betray is evidently tUti sed for a book to bo used whis as i corollary to alie instruction in coin mercial of ilia states it may thorel appears strong cc that vo intend to our readers acquainted with tho valuable contents of ahia school book butlre lack time or ini to gather the desirable hinloi mation on things or the sphere of alic daily from voluminous special and hence even adults a which giva na clear cursory view of the natural resources olour coin itry without falling cither the usual slipshod slip shod of alio average school books or into tho charyta chary td is of the indigestible comprehensiveness of dc specialists the primer of mr patton gicca no special such as might prove practically useful to the immigrant or colonist ih thi or thai pe cial locality but it gevea a general the of public and private prosperity iu this inexhaustible continent of ours first the author delineates ft graphic representation of tho north american continent in the chape of a birds eye view of the principal mountain ranges rivers coasts etc hero wo learn that tho states the compact bulk they seem to form at tho first glance havo a coast lino of miles inclusive the navigable extent of alio large rivers the great interior lakes and tho gulfs and bays i e one mile coast line to every sq mi of the total area while in europe which of alio continents of the old world enjoys tho most favorable development of the coast line the ratio is as to A coast development has always been alie foundation of lively commerce and rapid of n country and iionno the union would undeniably be able to arido itself with of the greatest coin meril fleet of the world if un favorable laws did not prohibit its citizens citi ens from exploiting iho unusually favorable afforded by kind nature after iho configure con figura tion of the land wo will miner d wealth alie bloh heg affo bied of the seas lakes and rivers among the mineral the first rank belongs most legitimately to coal it is aliis beneficent mineral which furnishes to modern society not only heat and liged but tho easily transportable on which is based the development of our industry ns well as of our public and private convoy alcos ancos in the light of tho now scientific principles of the of energy and the mechanical equivalent of heat wo know that alio con looking black substance is so to an agglomeration of petrified sunbeams the chained solar energy to be set free when brought into combination the oxygen of our atmosphere i america giai alio richest and larg beds of the world which can be looked at as inexhaustible as in stead of being by the incessant exploitation extent increases each year by new discoveries while wo possess coal fields of about square miles in area so that wo bed to every 15 sq mi of the total superficial area of the country europe owns only mi of coal or to sq mi of her total with this we must consider that tho united states leave not yot been explored all over by any moans and that new discoveries of deposits of alie black diamond may yet swell alio above figure considerably to our favor in england however which with its sq mi of coal fields possesses the largest coal wealth of europe the whole supply will bo exhausted in a century and a half according to prof armstrong the ratios of the coal beds to alio total area arc as follows for england to 20 belgium to franco to As in extent ko alo our coal do posits far exceed thoo of Euro pain and facility of mining in england alio average thickness of the coal deposit n estimated at 35 feet but alie single feint aro thin no more lian from I to moreover alie coal ia situated at a great of from hoo to feet in length are required to hoyt the mineral in of hoimes ef the coal bod h about CO feet thick with veins of 10 feet for v alio coal known ita resent within the domain of the hinted stales the average it at 20 feet then alio llio col lioa qulinin cU linin horizontal strut t which crop out at alie foiw lo iW so that they can easily worked ly manna of or in nearly horizontal layer at below the prairie where of only a lew hundred feet to brcich lie deposits only in alio llio of greater pw sent themselves but per awra liaa the almost exclusive monopoly orthis hard coal an area f mi has bern out w distinctively anthracite dapo ait and the average thickness of it estimated at 00 feet which would yield tuna to alio llio acre these dc anre prea ent about of our population with fuel light and motion chey aro divided in toso called iwens which are traversed by tho livers lehigh and names well know n to each consumer of coal ai red asli or oh tho chief distinctions of tho latter term being basca on lie or absence of ferrou ovidea in alio coal the llast men about 85 to 90 per cent pure alic j latter 93 outside of pennsylvania anthracite is only found in small in virginia rhode ini new mexico britch columbia and in europe walek southern ireland france saxony and russia supply likewise quantities of cilo of an inferior grade awl falio transition bituminous coal is only found in tho A mountains on ali e juniata and allegory ny s hi pennsylvania and in ho vicinity in maryland the aggregate arca of aliese deposits als square malca atio o collad coal finds its chief ui in oft cod if ba alio isola teil dt alt ot quiro hiloa in michigan in alic principal larga coal field states tie of Hs on t he ys stern elpio of tho Aleph ariy fand trav erwa western virginia eastern and georgia coming to an end in iio north of alabama ai its greatest breadth extending from coniber and d to urea in dy be given ai thic kne adum range horween 20 and altee Ol Tee I ar liar beat bituminous idalu foumtain foum tin alio so called a stra tinn of to 14 ayt thickness which readies over to ohio acs virgin ait and maryland and prise scan area of acres tho coal ot thia layer h auit able for the gas and in somo localities ai at vine it ia inthe smelling or the iron ore the great central coal held ft space of sq miles anil portions port iono of illinois and western kentucky the indiana coal ands its chief application ill lie iron burrt alcait acca it is tolerably arco from sulphur or phosphorus mid at lordi n free pas sigo of alio blast in the furn ac tha western coal nold from one only by lie valley of the mississippi ha not yot becci explored all over it covers in milea in misouri kansas 2250 in ea round jn texas about milea iivo ben surveyed up to date in alie list mentioned alato find lignite a coal of lew value transitional chea leading overla tho apat of ho tertiary strata extensive supplies of coal have been recently found al the eastern foot of the blocky mountains and on the the even in alaska good coal has been dug up by the never tiring arm of man the coal our own territory or alio basin of alio great salt lake will yet bo so far developed that they attract the attention of alio national economist and alie scientific geographer it is generally believed that in quantity as well as quality our supply of black diamonds will ono compare alie product of alie fisl ern states bof i lial and of ibo various contributions ol 01 organic nature to tho of our nation |