A Debt
A Debt. " The Following Is A Table Of The Permanent Indebtedness Of Great Britain, France, Russia, Austria, And The United States, Of The Burden Of The Interest Of The Debt Of Each Government, Of The Burden Of The Debts Per Capita On The Population Of Each, And Of The ...
A Few Suggestions Respectfully
"a Few Suggestions Respectfully Submitted To Congress And The People. "in December, 1857, The Subscriber Submitted A Plan To Congress For The Creation Of A National Currency, Similar To The One Now Established. In That Recommendation Is Embraced A Plan For Regulating The Issue Of A National Currency, So As ...
Action Within The
Action Within The Blast-furnace—fusion. The Contents In The Boshes And Near The Hearth, Being Raised To An Intense Heat By The Combustion Of The Fuel, Are Reduced To A Pasty Condition; The Limestone Parts With Its Carbonic Acid Some Distance Above Its Point Of Fusion, But The Lime Is More ...
Ad Valorem
Ad Valorem. But This Prosperity Continued For A Short Season Only. The National Treasury Was Too Full; Money Too Plentiful; The Tariff Was Too Good; And "tinkering" And Experiment Was Again Resorted To By Our Statesmen. It Is Said, However, That The "lobby" And British Gold Framed The Tariff Of ...
Alleghany Coal Field In Alabama
Alleghany Coal-field In Alabama. That Portion Of The Alleghany Coal-field In Alabama Covers 4300 Square Miles Of Superficial Area, And Forms The Southern Extremity Of The Field. Its Form Is Peculiar, As Shown By The Accompanying Map, Which Is Con Densed, With Some Alterations, From The Alabama State Survey By ...
And Pumps
And Pumps. The Following Is An Old Rule For Obtaining The Power Of Condensing Engines:— Square The Diameter Of The Cylinder And Multiply The Sum By .7854, The Product By 10, And The Whole Product By 144, Which Will Show The Number Of Pounds The Engine Will Lift One Foot ...
Anthracite Coal
Anthracite Coal. We Have Before Stated That Vegetable Matter May, And In All Probability Did, Aid In Producing Coal, But, We Believe, Only To A Very Limited Extent. That Vegetation Grew Luxuriantly During The Coal Era There Can Be No Doubt; And That It Grew In The Deep Basins In ...
Anthracite Coal Formations
Anthracite Coal Formations. Of The Fact That Our Anthracite Coal-fields Are Part Of The Great Appa Lachian Coal Formation There Is No Question ; And That They Were Formed At The Same Time, And Under Nearly The Same Circumstances, Is Not Doubted ; But The Cause Which Led To The ...
Appalachian Formations
Appalachian Formations. In The Accompanying Illustration, Fig. 4, We Do Not Give The Details Of The Foldings And Steep Reversed Dips Of The Mountain-chains Now Filling The Eastern Edge Of The Ancient Sea. Such Detail Would Not Affect The Question, But Would, In The Limited Space To Which We Are ...
Application Of The Converting
Application Of The Converting Table. It May Be Remarked That The Table Is Equally Applicable For Changing Bearings Into Angles If Required. For Example :—an Observation Was Made With A Right-hand Dial, And The Bearing Found To Be 27° 17' E. Of N.: At What Degree Did The Needle Point ...
Area
Area. The Area Of The Arcadian Coal-fields Is Very Extensive, And Has Been Variously Estimated From 5000 To 10,000 Square Miles. The Total Area Is Perhaps Not Less Than 9000 Square Miles Of Coal Measures ; But We Have Hesitated To Accept 2500 Square Miles As Productive, Since The Large ...
Asia
Asia. There Are But Few Other Localities Of Which We Have Available Data, Where Coal Has Been Developed. We Only Know That Extensive Fields Of The True Carboniferous Formations, Both Bituminous And Anthracite, Exist In The Vast Chinese Empire, Which Contains 5,000,000 Square Miles Of Territory. Mining Is Conducted In ...
Auroral And Matinal Strata
Auroral And Matinal Strata. The Second And Third Series Are The Auroral And Matinal Limestones And Slates. They Are Of Immense Thickness, And Cover A Vast Area Of Territory. This Formation Seems To Have Formed The Bed Of The Ancient Appalachian Sea, And Is Traceable, By Its Outcrops, From The ...
Avenues To Market Coal Transporting Railroads
Avenues To Market.-coal-transporting Railroads. Four Lines Of Coal-transporting Railroads Now Exist From The Shamokin Region To The Several Markets. The First And Oldest Is The Shamokin Valley & Pottsville Railroad, Which Extends From Mount Carmel To Sunbury, A Distance Of 27 Miles. This Road Connects With The Northern Central, And ...
Barton Coal Company
Barton Coal Company. The Location Of This Coal Company Is At Barton, In Alleghany County, Maryland, On The Waters Of The George's Creek, And In The Celebrated Frostburg Basin. The Town Of Barton Is On The George's Creek Railroad, About Four Miles Above Its Junction With The Balti More And ...
Big Black Creek Coal Basin
Big Black Creek Coal-basin. This Basin Is Now Tapped Or Opened At Two Different Points. First, At Its Eastern Extremity, By The Buck Mountain Coal Company, Whose Planes Descend Into The Black Creek Basin, Or Over Council Ridge From Clifton. This Company Has Two Slopes In Operation To The Bottom ...
Boundary System In Flat
Boundary System In Flat Seams. In This Plan We Present The Boundary System As Applied To Flat Seams And Those Under 30° Of Dip, Or Up To The Point At Which Coal Will Slide By Gravity Down The Incline Of The Bottom Slate. As The Former Is Designed For Pitching ...
Boundary System Of Mining
Boundary System Of Mining And Ventilation. All Will Admit That The Best Mode Of Mining Coal, And The Most Economical Eventually, Is To Extend The Workings, Main Avenues, And Air-courses, To The Extent Of The "run," Or Boundary Of The Mine, And Then Work Out All The Coal In Returning, ...
Box Cages
Box Cages. There Is Another Mode Of Raising Coal From Deep' Shafts, That May Be Commendable In Some Cases. The Plan Is To Dispense With Cars And Cages In Shafts And Substitute For Them A Simple Box Of Boiler-plate, Which May Hold Five Tons, More Or Less. This Box Does ...
British Coal Fields
British Coal-fields. The Coal-fields Of The British Islands, As Given By Dr. Ure,—from Whom Some Of The Foregoing Facts Are Obtained, And Who Is Generally Very Correct, —are More Extensive Than The Areas We Have Adopted. We Give, However, Below, An Interesting Table From His Works, In Which It Will ...
Broad Mountain Basin
Broad Mountain Basin. This Magnificent Basin Of Coal Will Be Found Fully Described In Chapter Xiii, From Page 269 To 278. It Is An Isolated Deposit, Identical With The Anthracite Coal Formation, But Disconnected From Any Of The Grand Divisions Or Fields Forming The Anthracite Regions. It Is Rather Nearer ...
Broad Top Coal Field
Broad Top Coal-field. Propose To Include This Small Coal-field With The Bituminous Rather Than The Anthracite Formations, Though It Occupies A Place Between The Two, And, Strictly Speaking, Is An Independent Field, Belonging To Neither The One Nor The Other, And Is A Peculiar Semi-bituminous Coal-field. Its Coal Is Lustrous ...
Broad Top Coal Region
Broad Top Coal-region. " The Broad Top Coal-region, Situate In Huntingdon, Bedford, And Fulton Counties, Occupies A Peculiar Geological Position Amongst The Coal-fields Of Pennsylvania. Standing Between The Anthracite Coal-fields Of The North East And The Great Bituminous Coal-region Of The Southwest, Its Coal Pos Sesses To A Considerable Degree ...
Cementing Furnaces
Cementing Furnaces. We Do Not Propose To Elaborate The Method Of Producing Steel By The Old Processes, But Simply To Give The Chief Points, In Order To Trace The Modes And Means Of The Manu Facture, And To Illustrate The New Developments Or Inventions Which Arrive At The Desired Object ...
Central Coal Field In Indiana
Central Coal-field In Indiana. That Portion Of The Central Coal-field Lying In Indiana We Have Stated At 6700 Square Miles Of Productive Coal-area. The Coal Formation Is Per Haps Filly 10,000 Square Miles In Extent. The Maximum Depth Of The Coal Measures Is Greater Than In Illinois, But Less Than ...
Central Coal Field In Western
Central Coal-field In Western Kentucky. A Singular Increase In The Thickness Of The Coal Measures Takes Place In The Western-kentucky Portion Of The Central Coal-field, Which We Can Only Account For By The Greater Angle Of Dip And, Consequently, Deeper Basins Of This Region. A Basin Of Coal Is Always ...
Chains Wire Ropes
Wire Ropes, Chains, And Cordage. Wire Ropes Are Now Generally Used In The Place Of Chains And Hemp Ropes. A Greater Strength With Less Weight Is Obtained By The Former Than Either Of The Latter. A Tarred Hemp Rope Of The Best Quality, Weighing 2 Pounds To The Fathom (6 ...
Change Of Horizon
Change Of Horizon. Figure 105 Represents Another Class Of Faults Found In All Coal-fields, But To A Greater Extent In Beds Which Have Been Forced From Their Normal Condition Than Where The Original Conditions Exist. For Instance, A Lower Bed May Be Moved From Its Horizon By Contraction Or Volcanic ...
Character Of The Ores
Character Of The Ores. 1. Manganite, Or Magnetic Oxide Of Iron.—no Mines Have Been Developed Of This Ore; But It Has Been Discovered On Lake Machigummi And On St. Clair Mountain. It Seems To Belong To The Lower Beds, And Is Naturally The Last To Be Developed. 2. Red Hematites, ...
Cheap Labor
Cheap Labor Vs. Free Labor. Our Manufacturers Can Only Compete With England When They Have Provided An Equal Steam-power To The Hands Employed, And When They Can Find American Free Labor At English Prices,—which We Hope May Not Happen Until The Millennium. We Have Tried Cheap Labor Long Enough In ...
Coal Breaking Machinery
Coal-breaking Machinery. Where A Large Business Is Done, The Saving Of Five Per Cent. In The Waste Of Coal By Breaking Effects A Considerable Saving In The Year, And This Can Be Done In Most Cases. On 500 Tons Per Day This Amounts To 25 Tons, Or 7500 Tons Per ...
Coal Cutting Machinery
Coal-cutting Machinery. We Have Often Heard Miners Say That It Would Be Impossible To Substitute Machinery For Their Labor In Cutting Coal, And That Their Trade Or Occupation Could Not Be Interfered With By Modern Inventions. We Cannot Understand The Desire Of The Coal-miners To Monopolize Their Laborious And Dangerous ...
Coal Formations Of The
Coal Formations Of The British North American Provinces. The Total Area Of The Arcadian Coal Formation Is Not Less Than 9000 Square Miles; But Only A Small Portion Of It Contains Workable Coal,— Perhaps Not More Than 2200 Square Miles. If We Deduct From The Above 1000 Square Miles For ...
Coal Formations Of The_2
Coal Formations Of The Rocky Mountains. We Include Under This Head An Extensive And Rather Indefinite Region, Extending From British America To Mexico. This Portion Of Our Continent Is A Terra Incognita, In A Comparative Sense, To The Geologist; But The Paleozoic Formations Are Known To Exist Around Those Towering ...
Coal Measures
Coal Measures. The Coal Measures Of Ohio, Lying Immediately West Of The Ohio River, Contain The Same Coal-seams Which The Corresponding Measures Contain On The Opposite Side In Pennsylvania, West And Kentucky. Opposite Pittsburg And Wheeling, The Upper Coals Are Found In Ohio, And Of Course All The Lower Coals. ...
Coal Mines At Rock Island
Coal-mines At Rock Island. "the Coal Of Rock Island And Vicinity Forms A Part Of The Northern Border Of The Great Illinois Coal-field. The Lower Carboniferous Rocks Here Come To The Surface, Resting Upon Devonian Or Silurian Strata. Deeply Cut By The Great Valleys Of The Mississippi And Its Tributaries, ...
Coal Oil
Coal Oil. The Manufacture Of Coal Oil From The Rich Cannel Coal Of The Kanawha Was Extensively Carried On In That Region Before The War, And Practical Men Who Know The Cost And Have Calculated The Profits By Experience State That, As A General Rule, More Money May Be Made ...
Coal Seams
Coal-seams. We Give Below Several Sections Of Coal-seams As Worked In The Vicinity Of Newcastle. There Seem To Be No Identifying Features, As The Coal And Bands Are Subject To Frequent Changes. As There Is Some Doubt As To The Correctness Of The Above Analysis, In Re Gard To The ...
Coal Seams_2
Coal-seams. There Are 57 Seams Of Coal In The Great Northern Field, From One To Six Feet In Thickness, Averaging 75 Feet Of Coal; Of These, Ten Are Workable Seams, From 30 Inches To Six Feet Thick, With An Average Working Thickness Of 40 Feet; Which Leaves 35 Feet Of ...
Coal And Coal Mines Of
Coal And Coal-mines Of Belgium. The Belgian Coal-field Is A Long And Comparatively Narrow Series Of Basins, Extending About 75 Miles From East To West, And Lying In France And Belgium In About Equal Proportions, But Narrower, And, Consequently, Longer, In The Latter Than The Former Country. The Portion In ...
Coal And Coal Oil
Coal And Coal-oil. Hydro-carbons, Petroleum, Or Naphtha, Are The Condensed Results Of Car Bonated Hydrogen Gas,—either The Direct Results Of Volcanic Heat, Or Pro Duced By The Action Of Internal Heat On The Carbonated Rocks. They Were Never Surface Formations, Because Their Lightness Would Prevent Precipitation; Consequently, If Formed On ...
Coal And Coal Oil
Coal And Coal-oil. The Common Varieties Of Mineral Coal Are Divided Into Several Classes, According To Their Density And The Volatile Or Bituminous Matter They Contain. Hard Anthracite Is The Most Dense And Contains The Most Carbon. On The Lehigh And Through A Great Por Tion Of The Eastern End ...
Coals And Coal Fields Of
Coals And Coal-fields Of France. There Are 62 Coal-fields In France, But Some Of Them Are Extremely Limited And Unproductive. The Area Of Her Productive Coal-fields Is 920 Square Miles, Existing In 45 Departments, And Producing, In 1852, 4,934,196 Tons Of Coal From About 500 Collieries. The Largest Basins Are ...
Comparative Economy Of The
Comparative Economy Of The Bessemer Or Pneumatic Process. By This Method Of Making Steel, A Great Saving Of Fuel Is Secured. The Product Is In A Cast Condition ; And Hence, In Comparing It With The Cementing Process, We Will Consider The Expenditure In Producing Ingots By Each Plan. It ...
Conclusion Of Petroleum
Conclusion Of Petroleum. This May Seem A Hasty And Unsatisfactory Conclusion Of One Of The Most Important Subjects Of This Work,—one Which Perhaps We Ought To Have Commenced With; And Were We To Rewrite The Book Such Would Be The Order In Which We Should Arrange The Subjects, Since Petroleum ...
Continuation Of The Valley
Continuation Of The Valley Range. We Have Only A Few Words More To Say In Connection With This Subject. We Have, In The Early Pages Of This Work, Given The Range And Extent Of The Auroral And Matins.' Limestones As Coextensive With The Primal Rocks, Or The Palozoic Formations Of ...
Contraction At Hazleton
Contraction At Hazleton. One Of The Most Singular Instances Of Inversion Of Strata, Or The Effects Of Contraction, Is Found At The Bottom Of The Diamond Mines, Hazleton. The Hazleton Basin Contains An Anticlinal Running Through Its Centre, And, At The Western End, At Least Two Of These Axes. At ...
Converting Table
Converting Table. Remarks On The Following Table For Converting The Degrees Recorded In The Dialling-book Of An Under-ground Survey Into The Bearings. (see Table, Page 495.) All Practical Men Are Aware Of The Difficulty, Hazard, And Delay That Attend An Attempt To Obtain The Bearing Of Every Draft Under-ground In ...
Creation Of The Earth
Creation Of The Earth. Science Informs Us That Our Planetary System Existed Originally As A Nebulous Sphere, Vaporized By Heat, Which Appears To Have Been The Con Dition Of The Universe Under The Original Laws Of Creative Force. If The Ponderous Or Solid Matter Of Our System Was Again Reduced ...
Description Of Map
Description Of Map. The Great Kanawha Is Known By This Name To The Mouth Of Gauley; Above That, It Is Known As The New River, Which Takes Its Rise Among The Mountains Of North Carolina. No. 1 Is Guyandotte, At The Mouth Of The Guy Andotte River, And Is The ...
Description Of The Machine
Description Of The Machine Puddler. "the Ordinary Puddling-tool, Or `rabble,' Is Worked Backward And Forward In The Puddling-furnace By A Vertical Arm Outside The Furnace, To Which It Is Connected By A Notch In The Handle Of The Rabble, Dropped Loosely Upon A Pin At The Bottom Of The Work ...
Description Of The Map
Description Of The Map. The Upper, Or Northern, End Of The St. Clair, Or Coosa, Coal-field Is Near Gadsden, On The Coosa River. There Appears To Be No Immediate Connec Tion Between This Isolated Coal Deposit And The Larger Area To The West, Or The Coal Of Lookout Mountain To ...
Description Of The Map
Description Of The Map. Accompanying Miniature Map Represents The General Extent And Form Of This Great Coal-field, With The Prominent Places And Points. It Extends Through Portions Of Nine States, Viz. :—pennsylvania, Ohio, Mary Land, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, And Ala Bama. Its Immediate Boundary In Pennsylvania, Not ...
Development Of Coal In
Development Of Coal In England. We Propose In The Present Chapter To Present A Brief Sketch Of The History And Development Of Coal, Confining Ourselves Almost Exclusively To The Older Coal-fields Of England, And To The Early History Of Our Pennsyl Vania Anthracite Regions: The First Presenting The Earliest Data ...
Dirt Or Soft Faults
Dirt Or Soft Faults. There Is Not Much Difference Between The Slate Fault And The Dirt Fault. They Are Both Organic Defects, And Not The Results Of Any Subsequent Action. The Dirt Faults Are Generally More Extensive Than The Slate Faults, And Are Almost Exclusively Confined In The Anthracite Regions ...
Early History And Development
Early History And Development Of The Anthracite Regions On Pennsylvania. The Early History Of Coal In America Is Much Less Obscure And Uncertain Than Its History In England, For Obvious Reasons. In Fact, The Printers Themselves Were Among The Pioneers Of Our Coal-mines: First To Advocate The Value Of Coal, ...
Elevation And Depression Of
Elevation And Depression Of The Coal Measures. The Common Level Of The Illinois Coal Measures Is Above The Mississippi At St. Louis, Which Is 381 Feet Above Sea-level, And The Total Thickness Of The Coal-strata Is 900 Feet; Add To This The Thickness Of The Tertiary And Drift, Which Is ...
England And Her Resources
England And Her Resources. The Prosperity Of England Is Involved In The Duration Of Her Coal-fields. The Exhaustion Of Her Mines Must Sap The Foundation Of Her Strength. The Subject Engages The Attention Of Her People; And All Available Means Are Taken To Economize This Great And Primary Source Of ...
Etc Etc Broad Mountain
Broad Mountain Basins, Etc. Etc. Have Now Briefly Described And Illustrated The Prominent Anthracite Coal-fields And Their Principal Basins; And Though We Have Not Attempted To Trace Their Axes, Since We Believe It To Be Impracticable, We Have Given A Concise And Practical Illustration Of Each Important Division And District ...
Facts And Theories
Facts And Theories. The Many Theories Of The Formation Of The Metallic Ores Now Existing Tend To Confuse The Mind Of The Student, And It Is A Difficult Matter To Select The Most Probable, Since Those Theories Are Generally Supported By Arguments That Are Convincing To Those Who Are Familiar ...
Farmer And The Planter
Farmer And The Planter As The First Or Principal Producers Of Wealth, And Those Whose Interests Should Be The First Consulted. It Is True, These Are Our Great And Vital Interests At Present, And These Interests We Are Most Anxious To Serve. But How Does Free Trade Benefit The One ...
First Crisis
First Crisis. In 1819 The Crisis Came, As The Inevitable Consequence Of A Constant Drain Of Specie To Pay For The Excess Of Importation. The Bank Of The United States Had Been Com Pelled To Import Specie In The First Sixteen Months Of Its Operations, To The Amount Of $7,250,000, ...
First Tariff
First Tariff. This State Of Things Called The Convention And Forced It To Give Power To Congress To Protect Our National Industry. This Produced The First American Tariff, In 1789, Which Gave Especial Protection To Our Iron Manufactures. When They Suffer, Every Branch Of Industry Suffers More Or Less. In ...
Formation Of The Appalachian
Formation Of The Appalachian Oils. We Have Shown That The Vapors Of Carbon Produce Oil Direct From Volcanic Sources And The Internal Heat Of Smouldering Subterranean Fires. This Seems Too Palpable A Fact To Need More Explanation Or Illustration; And, Since We Can See And Comprehend In This A Natural ...
Formation Of The Brown
Formation Of The Brown Hematites. The Hematites, Or Brown Oxides, Do Not Appear To Exist Except In The Vicinity Of Limestone : Yet There Is No Evidence Of Their Originating From The Limestones, Since These Rocks Contain But A Small Proportion Of Iron. The Ferriferous Rocks Of This Region Are ...
Furnace Ventilation
Furnace-ventilation. In Figure 147, A Is The Upcast Slope, Or Shaft ; B, The Main Avenue, Or Gangway; C, The Inlet Air-course Below The Gangway; D, The Return Air-course Above The Gangway ; G, Doors To Keep The Air In Its Proper Course; And F, The Furnace. The Downcast Slope ...
Gas As A Ventilator
Gas As A Ventilator. This Gas—light Carburetted Hydrogen—is About Half The Density Of Common Or Atmo Spheric Air, Or Of The Same Lightness And Ascensional Power As Common Air Rarefied By 500° Of Heat: Consequently, This Gas Always Lies Above All Other Gases Or Vapors In The Mine, And Fills ...
General Distribution Of Coal
General Distribution Of Coal. The Present Chapter We Propose Giving A Brief Account Of The Known Or Developed Coal-fields Of The World, Reserving A Detailed Or General Description Of The More Interesting And Prominent Coal Regions For Their Appropriate Place In The Following Chapters. In This We Shall Merely Glance ...
General Form Of The
General Form Of The Eastern Palzeozoic Strata. We Must Here Briefly Notice The General Configuration Of The Palteozoic Strata On The Atlantic Slopes, In Order To Present Clearly The Contraction And Foliation Of The Coal-strata, In Conformity With The Formations In Which They Exist, And Which Will Be Found More ...
General Topography Of The
General Topography Of The Valley. From Prospect Rock, Overlooking The Valley From The Rear Of Wilkes Barre, A Fine View Is Presented. The Plains And Hills On Each Side Of The River Spread Out Like A Picture Below, Dotted With Town And Village, Colliery And Farm; Diversified With Grove And ...
Geological Horizons Of Petroleum
Geological Horizons Of Petroleum. It Is Generally Supposed That Rock-oil Exists In Fissures Or Cracks Running Across The Strata And Extending Obliquely Or Perpendicularly Towards The Surface; But This Theory Is Contrary To Experience And The Nature Of Petroleum. In The First Place, Oil Is Always Found On Certain Horizons,—below ...
Geological Positions Of Rock Oil
Geological Positions Of Rock-oil. Figure 189 Illustrates The Several Horizons Of Petroleum And The Hydro-carbons Gene Rally. We Have Made The Gas And Oil Reservoirs Or Strata Much Larger In Proportion Than They Exist In Nature; But We Wish To Convey The Idea Rather Than The Actual Status,—which, We Must ...
Geological Structime Plutonic
Geological Structime.-plutonic. The Rocks Originally Forming The Crust Of The Earth, And Resulting From Condensation And Sublimation, Or Comparative Degrees Of Heat And Cold, Are Known As Plutonic, Granitic, Or Igneous Rocks. They Form The Base Of All Subsequent Formations, And Are, In Fact, The Primary Elements From Which All ...
Geology And Interior Formation
Geology And Interior Formation Of The Field. Included In The Carboniferous Strata We Find The Vespertine Sandstone, The Proto- Or Subcarboniferous, And The Umbral Red Shales, Both Overlying The Ponent, Or Old Red Sandstone Of The English, And Underlying The Con Glomerate. The Vertical Section On The Left Side Of ...
Gold
Gold Vs. National Currency. Gold Or Silver Is Necessary To Settle The Balance Of Our Exchanges With Foreign Nations, Just As Bank-notes Are Necessary To Business-men. The Value Of Gold Is Unchangeable And The Same In All Civilized Countries. It Flows To All Manufacturing Countries That Export Or Sell More ...
Great Northern Coal Field
Great Northern Coal-field. This Coal-field Is Perhaps The Largest In England. It Was The First Developed, And Is Of The Greatest Im Portance To The British Coal-trade, Since It Furnishes Nearly One-fourth Of Its Production. The Area Of This Field Is Calculated At 750 Square Miles, Including Only 50 Square ...
Handling Ana Elevation Of
Handling Ana Elevation Of Coal. To Return To The Handling Of Coal, We Would Notice Particularly The Economy Of This Item. As Before Observed, There Is No Case In Which Coal, When Mined On A Large Scale, Need Be Handled More Than Once. When The Cars Go To The Miner ...
And Her Development The
The Policy Of England, And Her Development. The Practice Of England Is At Variance With Her Precepts. Her History Does Not Agree With Her "political Economy," As Taught By Her Sophists. Her Practical Economists Have Not Followed Their Teachings. A Short Time Ago,—measuring Time By The Life Of Nations,—the English ...