Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-11-08 | Page 11 | World's Coal Area; Uncle Sam Second

WORLDS WORLD'S COAL AREA UNClE SAM SECOND Unfounded Forebodings That i Supply Would Be Exhausted in Years Sir s 's s gloom gloomy foreboding foreboding fore tore boding that the coal fields of or the world would give o gl out In less than two hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred years has been somewhat qualified quail quail- fled fied by b a communication that has reached London announcing the discover discovery discos discos' er ery of or hU huge e beds heds of or anthracite coal In British Columbia news Columbia news which Is officially off off- daily confirmed b by ba a telegram from the thc minister of or mines mines' for British Columbia addressed e to him by the general agent-general of at thc the colon colony says the New York YorkI Ti Times in es To this telegram Is added the Intelligence intelligence Intel Intel- Intelli intelli- gence that a large party part of ot miners spent last summer on the watersheds at the time head of the thc Skeena Naas and nd Eagle rivers and discovered that good anthracite coal seams underlay over two thousand one onehundred onehundred hundred square miles mies of territory w tt an estimated capacity of or tons tonsa a square quare mile mie Owing to the tho geographical Ical cal position of ot the time fields felds their commercial com- com mercial l Importance Is said to be great grent as thc they will wil command the markets of Siberia China and Japan as well wel as the thi American In the time Pacific From a strategic point of or view the new discoveries are of great reat importance importance tance as fleets in the time Pacific will wi be beable beable I able to obtain the necessary supplies I of if smokeless coal In war time when It I might night be Impossible to ship coal I through the Suez SUe or 0 Panama canals canal A recent estimate of ot the worlds world's coal I area rea unworked was as follows Sq Sq Miles i 81 JH Chins China China L rI United Unite St 01 Japan I Canada rl France 2500 soo 0 India JT j IS 1600 50 X N. South ull C G 1700 European l Itu HI lu Ij O U I Belgium 50 United Kingdom 1 o