The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 9, 1893, Page 2

MISSOURI'S 5 COAL. What the Geologists Have Learned— An Area ot 26,700 Square Miles —The Promising Future. The Washington correspondent of | the St. Louis Globe-Democrat says in that paper uncer date of October 29: There was a good deal of criticism during the World’s fair upon the failure of Missouri to emphasize her coal resources. The geological sur vey has recently completed a review of the coal fields of the country. The geologists report that Missouri has 26,700 square miles of coal fields. No other western state exceeds this supply save Illinois, which has 36, 800 square miles. Iowa has 18,000 squre miles, Kansas has 17,000 and the Indian territory 20,000. The Missouri product reached 2, 723,949 tons last year, and the value of it was $3 369,659. The are twenty-three counties in the state which produced coal on a commercial! scale in 1892. Of these, two Bates and Macon, each produc ed over half a million tons, and their combined output was nearly 50 per cent of the state’s total. Lafay ette county produced over 300,000 tons, and Ray county exceeded 200, 000 tons. Three others Putuam, Randolph and Vernon, yielded each more than 100,000 tons, while Henry county fella little less than 2,000 tous short of that amount. Only one other county, Barton, bad an output exceeding 50,000 tons The counties having increased production in 1892 were Adair, Johnson, Lafayette, Linn, Macon, Montgomery, Putnam, Ray, St Clair and Vernon. Those whose product in 1892 fell below that of 1891 were Audrain, Barton, Bates, Boone. Cald well, Callaway, Grundy, Henry, Morgan and Randolph. Iu Missouri three feet is near the average thickness of the coal beds of the state, and beds 18 inches are profitably mined on a large scale. Any bed uniformly thinner than this can not ordivarily be considered available About a fourth of the annual production of the coal in the state is from beds not over 2 feet in thickness. Beds 3 and 4 feet thick are of frequent occurrence, especial- ly in Macon, Randolph, Henry and Bates counties; but they are not so abundant nor so widespread as to make the 2-foot bed unworthy of consideration. The roof over a large portion of the coal mining area in the state is excellent and offers no obtacle to mining, though in some localities it gives trouble. This is the case in Sullivan, Adair and Hen ry counties: The quality and con- dition of the roof is not regional, however, but often varies greatly within one mining district. This is illustrated in Macon, Randolph, Boone,Clay and Henry counties Dis turbances known as “rolls,” “faults,” “squeezes,” etc., are quite common in certain coal beds, and seriously impair the value of the coal. They are particularly noticeable in the mines of Audraiv, Montgomery, Boone,Caldwell, Adair, Schuyler and Clay counties All Missouri coals are bituminous, with the exception of the cannels, which are found in local and small deposits. The bituminous coals have, asarule,a high percentage of ash, as compared with the best bituminous coals. They are com- paratively soft, suffering much from excessive handling or long exposure and they almost always carry pyrite, either in lenticular or nodular con eretions or in thin plates, between ‘the joints of the coal. Thelast im- purity, as stated, injures them for use in the manufacture of illuminat ing gas, though many of the coals have an abundance of hydro-carbons of high candle-power. Missouri coal mines are not much troubled by excess of water—in fact, many of the mines are so exceedingly dry that they are actually dusty. Most of Missouri's mines are less than 200 feet deep. The Randolph shaft in Ray county, is 420 feet deep to the coal and is one of the deepest. The deepest operated, which is ex- actly speaking, within the state, is near Hamilton, in Caldwell county, andis about 500 feet deep. At Leavenworth, Kan., along the state line, however, a coal bed of only 22 inches is extensively worked af depths varying from 700 to 900 feet. This is, probably, near the lat tea limit of depth at which a bed of| good coal, of this thickuess, with a good roof, cau be profitably wiued, stat the present date and with the present condition of the coa! dustry. As to the future of the coal ing industry in Missouri, the report says: “Though the rate of of production of coal in the state! during recent years has not becn a in- min- increase noticeable activity on the part of capitalists and mine opperators in the extension of prospecting and in| the securing of large bodies of corn! This has been the case pa: ticularly in the central, uorthern anc southwestern portions of the state, in Macon and Randolph, Bates and The results of re- cent developments continue to em phasize the fact that the most pio ductive portion of the coal measures | toward the) interior the beds of coal are materi ally reduced in size; aud, further,the | workable beds are there ed at greater depths. large markets in some cases is an, offset to these disadvantages, Thus | at Kansas City acoal bed of about} 18 inches thick has been operated, at a depth of nearly 400 feet, and the Leavenworth bed is over 700} feet deep The beds of the north | ern half of the state as represented in Lafayette. Ray, Raudolph and Macon Scounties, are more regular lands Henry counties. is along its margin; encounter | Proximity to} im their distribution aud more con stant in their character over large areas than are those of other couu ties. Here aud in portions of the adjacent counties 0: Booue, Howard, Audrain, Adair, Sullivan, Linn and | Caldwell are undoubtedly large | bodies of, as yet, undeveloped coal | land. In Putnam, Sullivan Grundy counties there is also ee promise for the future. In the southwestern part of the state the ¢oal beds of Bates and Henry coun | ties have been large contributors to| the production of the past. The \ beds here are thick and are very ac | cessible, having often so little cover | ing as to be readily stripped. T. hese | beds, however, especially the thicker | ones, lie in somewhat limited basins | so that one portion of the square mile may be underlain by workable coal, while in another po: tion it is absent or too thin to work. | This characteristic of these beds, of | course, adds an additional factor uncertainty. Concerning the un touched areas of these and adjacent counties, we feel, however, safe in the prediction that much undevelop | ed coal exist there, especially in the | eastern portion of Bates county, where railroads have not penetrat ed.” aud | same of | Mrs. Cleveland's Dog’s. Springfield (Mass.] Republican Mrs. Cleveland sends nearly all) the dogs that are sent to her as pres- | ents to an uncle named Col. Harmon | who lives at Jackson Mich. So the colonel has all sorts of dogs on his} celery farm, in fact, more than be knows what todo with. The sur plus are given to people who enjoy} dogs and who are kind to them | One dog of fine German breed he gave to a friend in Germany, who oe cently wrote that he was taking lots | of prizes with the animal at shows! and gaining great repute as a breed-! er of dogs { Mayor For Thirty Days. Chicago, Nov.2.—At a caucus of| the Republican aldermen this after-| noon, George B. Swift defeated Mar- | tin B. Madden for the mayoralty! nomination until the special election | in about thirty days. The Repubh-| cans have control of the council and | the nomination is almost equivalent | to an election. The launching of the armored bat -| tle ship Oregon recently gives the| Unired States three of the most for- midable fighting vessels afloat, the other two being the Massachusetts and the Indiana. The new navy which we have been boasting about; has vessels which can fight as well) asrun. We are still only fifth or} sixth on the list among the nations in nayal strength, but if Congress does its duty we will gain a point or two in the next three or four years. —Globe-Democrat. poRRceeke tte sek ee | There are men yet living in Cole! county who remember when squir-| rels would swim the Missouri river) and one could take a stick and kil hundreds. i dise: i truly alarming. (treasury may be drained by this ab- :| the next legislature assembles but , that will be some time in the future | treasury will continue as long as the liGrenges or German Carp for ponds | sure the safe return of the ean which | two men giving the names of H. | silver dollar 07 412} grains bas not | been a measure of debts since be-| | Western Democrats will concentrate |upon out and out free coinage of | lation alone can not arbitrarily set a | silver money under the conditions | which we confront.—St. Louis Re. An Absurd Law. Lately the Tribune calied atten- tion to a most absurd law er which the state is compelled ti for diseased cattle and horses under direction of tke This law provides that mal afflicted with a und pay killed authorities 2 nie er an contagious dis- authori be ascertained | by appraisment aud the ciaim certi- fied to the state for payment. It stipulated that the price of any one animal shall not exceed 50 It seems that only the 0 animals ave been afflicted with contagious | of late those ease has been killed by th ties its value should is es and of less have escaped. Several thousand doliars of these and arate that is The governor has| no option in the matter where the claims are properly certified, so the claims have been allowed lately they are coming in at surd law. A horse afflicted with ceronic glane- | ders is certainly not a valuable ani- No one would pay $50 nor 50! cents for such an animal, but such ridiculous claims are being sent the governor every day. Now if astock owner is entitled to remuneration for the loss ofa horse afflicted with glanders why should not a farmer be allowed full value for all the hogs he loses by hog cholera or poultry by some infectous disease? The law will be repealed when mal. d we suppose the raids on the mon y Tribu e. holds out —Jefferson City Stock Fish, Iu.lopendence, Mo., Nov. 1, 1892. | All persons in the state of Mis |souri, wishing Fish, either Bass, or s‘reams, can obtain them after this date by sending one dollar for ;each can of 25 fish, to either super- intendent Philip Kopplin jr., Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo., H.C. Car- sou, St. Joseph, Mo. The one that} is most accessible to applicant he payment of one dollar to in- or must be charges pre-paid, with after one dollar will be retunded to the} sender by mail. No can sent C. O. No fish sezt out of the state. Jxo. T. Crisp, N. B. Crisp, : Farmer: Sedalia, Mo, returned express | which the! Chairman. windied. Oct. —Recently | Toddand J. E. Gerye, agents for | (St John Plow Co. of Michigan, | |swindled a> number of farmers in Johnson county in an old andj successful way. Plows were soll! at $40 each and a contract drawn which stated that $20 was to be {taken in board. When collec-| {tions were made the latter clause had mysteriously dwindled to $2. | The men were arrested at Warrens ; burg last Wednesday, but succeed- ed in making their escape. Gerye! was arrested in Sedalia this after- noon and taken back. Silver to-day is cali where it has been since 1879, and the bullion | bounty repeal has only removed an impediment to free coimage. The fore the war. No leader fit to in- struct the people will ever say that it has been. That whole chapter of |concessions and compromises be- tween the gold standard and bullion bounties 1s close¢. Turn over the leaf. Hereafter all Southern and silver—upon American silver as American standard money. If con- tinental Europe will join us the ratio of bimetallic coinage can for all time be fixed at 15} to 1. If not, we can fix our own ratio at the fig- ure the relations of the metals des- ignate- Legislation gives gold and silver their chief value. Our legis- ratio, but we can put our induence in the scale and do our duty for public. In Tanney county there is evi-| | dence of silver in the existence of oxide of calamine, called by miners “turkey fat.” | burn school hou "4 | Buda the same v ‘and granite | was broken into small pieces. | shown that their enmity ' STRANGE DOINGS. | A Malicious Lunctic at Work in tlinois yards. THE MONUMENTS DEFACED. Theories as to the Motive No Clew Whatever to the Individ- ual Princeton, HL, Oe ghouls who desecrate hy ing in three of Ill ards at night granite monum tombstones themselves. from one town to anothe eriously as they come, and leaving | ywhere a trail of ze and | desecration. i The list of towns in which the ceme- | teries are known to have been devastat- | ed includes, Oneida, Kewanee | ville, Buda and Galva Thr Bureau, Henry and Knox, ar in the field of operations. The money value of the monuments and tombstones destroyed a gates many thousand overturning stat ing urns and | the in detilir move ves | ion | as going sa of sac ism w these lege lyi ch has aroused the people towns to desperate. measures. Ineach of them placards have b posted anny g u reward for capture of he supposed maniac. The monuments over the bodies of old and young, rich and poor, are treated alike. Through each cemetery the passes in the night, leav- ing a trail of broken marble behind and doing an amount of work it would take half a dozen laborers two or three days in the daytime to accomplish. At Kewanee they tooix fift out of the Catholic cemetery. them to the old Protestant cemetery and scattered them over the grave Sixteen flags that were over the gra of old soldiers were placed in a piie at the foot of a marble monument and burned. The flame and smoke almost ruined the monument. Over fifty mon- uments were ov erturned. In the cemet t Yorkville and idalism was repeated. MALICIOUS DESTRUCTION AT ONEIDA Oneipa, HL, Oct. 2 fayor Nash was busy putting up reward notices yesterday afternoon. Sixteen large monuments of marble were demolished. How one man managed to topple over such huge masses of stone isa mystery, but the only probable theory is that. only scourge one person committed the depreda- tions. The mayor said: ‘No, there is no motive save that of a dangerous lunatic or a malicious fiegd who has picked out cemeteries as his field for destruc- tion.” The Hobbs monument was a splendid shaft of marble with a granite pedestal. he shaft was pushed over and broken in halves. On top of the Bulkley mon- uinent was an urn, which was knocked from its base and the monument broken in two pieces. The granite shaft over the grave of James Fleming W. D. Lawson's child's tombstone, a small e, but of marble, was carried from | its place at the head of the grave to an- | other small stone 20 feet distant and | broken in halve ross it. The Talbot monument was almost pulverized. The marble urn was smashed and the mon- ument pushed over completely. The top of the McClure monument, a mar- ble slab, was pushed off and broken. | Bits of marble and granite were strewn about the cemetery, and the plaster used in placing the parts of the stones in place were trampled all over the graves. RUINED MONUMENT EXHIBITS. Gat a, HL, Oct. 27.—-The tomb- |stone vandals do not confine their attention to graveyards. that they have a spit will not hold. The theory against the dead In this town they have is directed | against the marble itself. Fred M. Viox is a large dealer in monuments nd stone here. His marble and gran- ite works are in a lonely part of the | town. is usually the case, Mr. Viox has in front of his place of busi- ness a number of completed monu- ments Those on show _ repre- sented a good deal of money and labor. One night a week ago twenty of these fine monuments were rained by being chipped, hammered and broken. Mr. Viox has tried in vain to efface the scars, but as they are in every case on the highly polished sur- face the monuments are completely ruined. They will have to be polished over in order to be restored to their original value. The theory that jour- meymen stonecutters are in any man- mer mixed up with the outrageous piece of business is weak and malic- ious, and eannot be too strongly con- demned. I believe the whole job has been done by some insane man, who believes he is commissioned to destroy grave stones wherever found. The monuments here were evidently too heavy for him to push over, so he con- | tented himself with defacing them. Ex-Judge McKen: PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. William T. MeKennan, of the United States circuit court for the district of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Dela- ware, died at his home in the east end, | after a prolonged illness, the result of | a general breaking down. The de-} ceased was 77 years old. He was ap- pointed judge of the United States cir- cuit court by President Grant in 1566 and retired in 1889. i An Extraordinary Verdict. 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