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Y. ntlinCD CURED AT HOME; UND \/* v +\s *\y *\s 'i\yi\y iv/> \/- *\s ♦ \/* \,* \s ♦ v?\x ♦\x ♦ \s'i\y' x \/^ 1 MINING OUR • 1 | ® BLACK DIAMONDS, I w w I have just spent a few days at the United Htates geological survey in | Washington, writes Frank G. Carpen ter, looking up facts about coal min ing. Tho geologists know more about j coal than any one else. They eon tell | you just how the world looked when i coal was made, and they describe how ] there were ages of luxuriaut growth | consisting of piue trees, lir trees and 1 all kinds of mosses and plants, which, dying down year after year, became a great matted bed of vegetation. They tell you how this bod was bottled up by being covered up svith rock 3 and ! how it finally turned into coal. They l can tell you just how this happened ; and how long it came to pass before I Noah was a baby or Cain killed little Abel outside the Garden of Eden. Men lived for thousauds of years I upon the earth before they kuesv that coal was good to burn. All the iron made before the days of tho middle I ages was with charcoal, aud a fairy | tale is told in Belgium of how a poor J blacksmith discovered tho first black \ diamonds. He found that he could not jet along, for it took so much time I to make his charcoal for his furnace, j He was just about to commit suicide | when a white-bearded old man ap ] peared at his shop and told him to go I to the mountains near by and dig out | the black earth and burn it. He did so, and was able to make a horseshoe jat one forging. This is the Belgian story of the discovery of coal. The first coal found in America was near Ottawa, Illinois. It is mentioned by Father Hennepin, a French explorer, who visited there in 1679. The first mines worked were about Richmond, Va. This coal was discovered by a boy while out fishing, i He was hunting for crabs for bait in a small creek, and thus stumbled upon the outeroppiug3 of the James River j ooal bed. Our anthracite coal fields have perhaps paid better than any other coal fields of the world. They I were discovered by a hunter named Nieho Allen, when George Washing ton was Prosident. Allen encamped [ one night in the Schuylkill regions, | kindling his tiro upon some black stones. He awoke to fiud himself al l most roasted. The stones were on fire, and anthracite was burning for the first time. Shortly after this a com pany was organized to sell anthracite coal. It was taken around to tho black smiths, but they did not know how to use it, and it was very unpopular. I Some of it was shipped to Philadelphia j by a Colonel Shoemaker nnd sold j there. It was not at all satisfactory, and a writ was gotten out from the j city authorities, denouncing the colonel as a knave and scoundrel for trying to imposed rocks upon them as coal. Still Philadelphia has largely been built up by anthracite coal, and 50,000,000 tons of this coal were taken out of the Pennsylvania fields in 1896. Since then some of these coal lands have been sold n3 high as 81200 an I acre, and the Philadelphia and Read ing Company in 1871 paid 840,000,000 j for 100,000 acres of coal land in this ! region. As a sample of the amount of business done iu anthracite coal, the Delaware andHudsou Canul Company paid 83,000,000 iuone year for mining, und their coal sales that year amounted to more than 810,000,000. i It is hard to estimate the enormous ; amount of money the Unitod States ■ makes out of its coal. We get more thau three times as much out of our ! coal mines as out of our gold mines, nnd the silver metal is not iu it with tho black diamonds. There is a little region in eastern Pennsylvania, about a hundred and twenty-five miles from Philadelphia and not more than two hundred miles from New York, which produces every year coal to a greater value than all the gold mines of the Rockies, Canada and Alaska. It is our anthracite coal fields which turn out between 50,006,000 and 60,000,000 tons of anthracite every year. We have in addition to this a hundred and thirty odd million tons of bituminous coal annually. We have, in short, the biggest and best coal measures on the globe. It is estimated that our coal : east of the Rocky Mountains covers 192,000 square miles, nnd within the past few years coal has been found in : many pnrtsofthe Far West. Colorado J will eventually be a great manufactur ing State on account of its coal. Utah lias large coal fields, and so have tho Htates of Montana, Washing | ton and Wyoming. Wo are now get ting something like 20,000,000 tons of coal a year out of Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, aud the great Appalach ian field produces more than four times this amount. There is more good buruable earth in the Appalacli IN AN ENGLISH MINE. ian Mountain, than anywhere else in the world. The coal is easy to get at, the veins are thick, and in some mines they are almost on the top of the ground. They are better than any other coal fields in this respect, with qua tingle exception. This is the new eoal field of Alaska, which, one of tlio geological survey men tells me, comes right out over the water, so that the coal can be dug down and nlmost fall into the ships below. This Alaskan coal will probably be used to supply the Pacific trade, aud its importance will be appreciated when it is remem bered that the largest fleet that sails the Pacific is the coal fleet. Most of the cool from that region comes from Australinoml Japan. Much Australian coal is brought to Han Francisco. Dur ing my travels in Japan I visited one coal mine which had fifty miles of tun nels under the sea, and I learned that the Japanese were making a great deal of money out of their coal. They were shipping it to China, not withstanding the fact that the geolo gists say that China has some of the largest coal fields of the world. I doubt the extent of the Chinese fields. The people are thrifty, and it is curi ous that they do not use the coal if they have it. They are among the most economical of people, aud in the different Chiuese cities coal is so valu able that it is ground to dust and then mixed with dirt, being sold in balls about the size of a biscuit. It is in teresting to know the coal fields of the world, as estimated by the geolo gists. Here they are: China, '200,000 square miles; United States east of the Rockies, 192,000 square miles; Canada, 65,000 square miles; India, 05,500 square miles; New South Wales, '21,000 square miles; Russia, 20,000 square miles; United Kingdom, 11,500 square miles; Spain, 5500 square miles; Japan, 5000 square miles, France, 2080 square miles; Austria-Hungary, 1790 square miles; Germany, 1770 square miles; Belgium, 510 square miles. From the above table it will be seen that the English coal area is small. Still England has for years been the centre of the coal production of the world, and for years it mined more than half the total amount used by the world. The United States is now probably ahead of it, and we are in creasing our product every year. The English coal veins are thin. The miners have to lie on their sides to BELGIAN MINERS. work many of them. They have dug out the surface coal aud they are now working at great depths. One English vein, fourteen and a half inches wide, is already down over twelve hundred feet. Such a vein would not be worked to any great depth in America. The Newcastle coal field, which is the rich est in England, has veins from three to six feet thick, while the Wales coal veins are less than three feet in thick ness. Some of our Pennsylvania an thracite veins run from thirty feet to sixty feet feet in thickness, while the Pittsburg bituminous coal veins are from eight to sixteen feet thick. At the present rate of mining it is esti mated that all the English coal will be exhausted in 212 years if it is worked down to 4000 feet, and this will be 113 feet deeper tban any of the English mines now worked. Notwithstanding the enormous amounts of coal which we have taken out of our anthracite region it is estimated that we could go on at the present rate for 616 years. As England goes further down her coal mining will become more expen sive, aud her days as a manufacturing Nation are, consequently, numbered Already we surpass her a great denl in manufacturing, aud there is no doubt that we, with our vast supplies of coal and iron, are to bo the chief manu facturing Nation of the future. Our Appalachian coal fields alone could supply the world with fuel for centuries. They are the largest nnd richest known, aud they are so situated that the coal can be shipped from them long distances by water. From Pitts burg coal can be carried for eight . een thousand miles on navigable streams, and the grate fires of the i South blaze with the rays from the i black diamonds from Bfto'nsylvania. The Ohio River is the great coal chute for the Mississippi valley. The coal is carried down it in crreat barges pushed by little steamers, and so fast ened together that a single steamer will push acres of coal. Loads of twenty thousand tons are taken. A vast amount of coal is carried on the canals and the great lakes form one of the chief highways of the coal trafflo. The amount of ooal carried on the railroads is almost beyond conception. The Philadelphia and Beading has more than fifty thousand ooal cars, which are dragged by nine hundred AN EXPLOSION. coal locomotives. These cars are kept busy in carrying anthracite coal. The Pennsylvania Railroad employs more than seventy thousand cars for the movement of its coal and coke trade, and the Central Railroad of New Jer sey carries about Ave million tons of anthracite coal every year. More coal is handled at New York than at any other place in the world except Lon don, more than fifteen million tons be ing used or transshipped at that point annually. One would think that there would be a lot of money in ooal for the miners. There is not, and it is a question whether tho present strike will materi ally better matters. As far as strikes have gone in the past, they have been against the working men. Some years ago Carroll D. Wright, the United States Commissioner of Labor, figured up the profit and loss of ten years of striking in all branches of labor. He estimated that the employes during this time lost fifty-nine million dol lars, an average of forty dollars to each striker involved, while the employers lost a little more than half the amount, or thirty million dollars. The coal miners live a3 poorly as any other class of workmen in the country. Por the most part they are in dirty villages, with narrow streets, their houses blackened by coal Amoke. In many mining districts the houses belong to the company owning tho mines, and the miners pay rent for them, so that when a strike occurs and they are out of money they are given orders to leave. Many of the housos have nothing more than two rooms and a kitchen, and in some places the only stores at which the miners can trade are the company's stores. With all this the American miners are far better off" than the miners of other countries. The coal miners of Japan receive only a few cents a day. Both women and men work in the mines, and the foreign ships, which get coal at Japan are always loaded by women, who pass the coal up the sides of the ship in baskets. Women are still used in the coal mines of Belgium. They dress in trousers, just like the men, and they do much the same work. They help load the coal, and in some of the mines they drag the cars from the tunnels to the bottom of the shaft. L. Simonin, a Frenchman, from whose book on un derground life the illustrations of this letter are taken, describes the horrors of their life in the mines. For a long times women were used in this way in England and Scotland, and it was not until twenty-five years ago that parliament passed an aot keeping them out. Children are employed in the Bel gium mines to-day. The English and Scotch used th sin for years. They were taken into the mines at seven, eight and nine years of ags, and were kept there until they grew up. The English coal veins are very thin and the tunnels are not more than a yard high. These children were used as beasts of burden. They were har nessed to little carts filled with coal, and had to crawl along on all fours with belts about their waists and chains between their legs dragging the coal carts to the surface. Women became deformed by this work. They were dressed in trousers and shirts like men. They learned to fight and swear like the men and became bad characters. At the age of fifty they were usually worn out. In Scotland young women were employed to carry the coal on their backs out of the mines. They dragged the coal to the foot of the ladders and then loaded it on their backs, holding it there by a strap around the forehead while they climbed up the ladders to get it to the surface. They worked from twelve to fourteen honrs a day, and would do work, it is said, which the men would not do, tramping through tho water with their loads of coal. According to law women cannot be employed in our mines. Boys, however, have been largely used. They drive the mules, and in the anthracite regions they pick over the coal, taking the slate and refuse out of it. They get from fifty to sixty cents a day for bending over the dusty coal, roasting in the summer and al most freozing in the winter. They are frequently hurt, though it is by no moans as bad with our children as with those of Europe a few years ago, when in one investigation it was stated: "That they seldom slept with a whole skin, and that their backs were cut with knocking against the roof and sides of the tunnels, and that the walking in the water covered their feet with sores." Have you ever been down in a coal mine? If so, you can appreciate some of the dangers of mining. A coal mine is like agr eat catacomb. It is a city underground, the walls of which in many cases are upheld by timbers. Now and then you come to rooms out of which the coal has been cut. The coal is taken down with blasting pow der, and there is danger of the wall falling and of the miners being orushed. There is also danger from fire damp, or the union of the gases of the mine brought together by the light from a lamp or candle. This causes a great explosion. It comes like a stroke of lightning, and with a clap of thunder. As the explosion occurs a roaring whirlwind of flame goes through the tunnels, pulling down the timbers and caving in the walls. It burns every thing within reach. Miners are blinded, scorched and sometimes burned to cinders. Hundreds have often been killed at n timo by such explosions, and by the flood of cur bonio acid gas which follows them. The statistics show that even in the United States one miner is killed for every hundred thousand tons of coal mined, and those who are injured number many times this proportion. TWO FOWLS WITH SEVEN LECS. A New Yorker Has a Three-Legged lioos ter and n Quadruped lieu. Two freak fowls are owned by C. Stern, of the Third Street Market, East River, New York City, which are belioved to be unique in their way. They were bought by their owner in Washington Market, The rooster, which is a year old, has three legs, FREAK FOWLS. the extra "scratcher" (which, by the way, is useless for that purpose or any other) sticking out behind, between the other two. The hen, which is about a year and a half old, can boast of four legs, two which she walks on, being in their natural places, the extra two growing out of her left side. The strange feathered creatures have been seen by hundreds of chicken fanciers. America's Oddest Hock. Near West Superior, Wis., on a steep, rocky bluff stands one of the most freakish objects to be found in the world. It consists of a ledge of solid granite, which bears most gro tesque resemblance to a human head. Its cavernous mouth is partly open and its features are distorted with a hideous grin. This monstrosity is DEVIL'S HEAD. known as "Devil's Head." Prospec tors rub a spot above the eyes, which is said to bring them luck. The In dians have a legend concerning the "skull rock" to the effect that it is nothing more or less than the petrified head of a great warrior who came from their "happy hunting ground" to pro tect the tribes of the Northwest againßt extermination by the whites. The largest mass of pure rock salt in the world lies under the province of Galicia, Hungary. It is known to be 550 miles long, twenty broad and '250 feet in thickness. The Mtlllcmaire'. Regrret. Dismal Dawson—Funny" Isn't It, that | a millionaire ain't happy? 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