โ Scribed by Edward W Parker
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
THE subject assigned to me for discussion this evening by your secretary, and my friend, Doctor Owens, " The Problem of Coal Supply," is somewhat misleading, for I think I shall be able to show in a very few words at the outset that the problem in our fuel troubles is not one of supply but of production, transportation, and distribution .
The total area in the United States underlain by anthracite, bituminous coal, and lignite is about 460,000 square miles . Practically all of the anthracite is found in a relatively small area in the northeastern part of Pennsylvania . The productive part of this region is. less than 500 square miles in extent, less than o . ii of i per cent, of the total coal field, but the anthracite production to the close of 1915 has amounted to 2,626,500,000 tons, or nearly one-fourth of that of the entire United States .
The most important of the bituminous coal fields from a present producing standpoint, and so far as the quality of the coal is concerned, is the Appalachian region, extending from the northern part of western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio to the central part of Alabama . The highest grades of bituminous coals (or * Presented at a meeting of the Mining and Metallurgical Section held Thursday, November 8, 1917 .
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