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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...will produce 33T7D per cent, and the Company's interest in that estate will be 32T20 per cent. of all the anthracite in Pennsylvania. The " thickness of coal " in Statement A, which is the aggregate of work able coal in the different beds, is less than has been generally assumed, but while in certain parts of each district it will amount to more than the figures given, they are high enough when the coal is considered ns evenly spread over the whole area, and after the coal already mined is subtracted, The subject of the actual content of coal in the Company's lands is one which has been very carefully studied by different persons in the past few years, and a good estimate can now be made of the amount that may be sent to market from the estate. A very elaborate calculation of the coal content was completed in 1876 by Henry Pleasants, the late Chief Engineer of the Company. From data which, in the undeveloped portions of the property, were obtained by thorough explorations by trial shafting, and in that part of the estate where the mines had been worked, from the knowledge gained by mining, a number of geological cross-sections were drawn. Using these cross-sections and the known areas underlaid by the different seams of coal, detailed calculations of content were made with great care, and the highest accuracy attainable; and, as the result of the investigation, Mr. Pleasants reported that the Company's estate contained 4,476,000,000 tons of coal. In July, 1879, I prepared a report on the probable duration of the Pennsylvania anthracite supply, in which, from independent data, I estimated that 1,189,000,000 tons of coal could be shipped from the Reading Company's estate. Within the last few months the Company's engineers have again investigated the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231543900
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231543906
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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