STATISTICS OF COAL1855 |
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... bushels to one ton . Total . 863,489 3,043 $ 4,355,602 985,828 3,768 1,868,862 1,849,317 6,811 6,224,464 $ 5 per ton . $ 2 per ton . We well know that these returns are , in general , much understated , and it is also understood that no ...
... bushels to one ton . Total . 863,489 3,043 $ 4,355,602 985,828 3,768 1,868,862 1,849,317 6,811 6,224,464 $ 5 per ton . $ 2 per ton . We well know that these returns are , in general , much understated , and it is also understood that no ...
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... bushels , In Pennsylvania , Tons . Miners . 859,686 2997 415,023 1798 1,274,709 4795 The foregoing abstracts illustrate the coal statistics of the most important countries in the world . We now proceed to present the details for the ...
... bushels , In Pennsylvania , Tons . Miners . 859,686 2997 415,023 1798 1,274,709 4795 The foregoing abstracts illustrate the coal statistics of the most important countries in the world . We now proceed to present the details for the ...
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... bushel . The same coal put on board at Richmond , is 4 pecks to the bushel . The Richmond coal bushel at the pit's mouth , is said to weigh 90 pounds 24 bushels and 80 pounds to 1 ton . * American Almanac , 1847 . † According to Colonel ...
... bushel . The same coal put on board at Richmond , is 4 pecks to the bushel . The Richmond coal bushel at the pit's mouth , is said to weigh 90 pounds 24 bushels and 80 pounds to 1 ton . * American Almanac , 1847 . † According to Colonel ...
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... bushels . A chaldron of these coals weighs 25 cwt . A bushel , measured when dry , weighs 84 or 85 pounds ; but in Pennsylvania , in Ohio , at Cleveland , and several other places , the bushel is equivalent to 80 pounds . What used to ...
... bushels . A chaldron of these coals weighs 25 cwt . A bushel , measured when dry , weighs 84 or 85 pounds ; but in Pennsylvania , in Ohio , at Cleveland , and several other places , the bushel is equivalent to 80 pounds . What used to ...
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... bushel ; and , although much more rarely , by the European chaldron and the ton : —which ton is gene- rally 2240 lbs . weight at the place of production , and 2000 lbs . at the place of consumption ; especially in the eastern ports ...
... bushel ; and , although much more rarely , by the European chaldron and the ton : —which ton is gene- rally 2240 lbs . weight at the place of production , and 2000 lbs . at the place of consumption ; especially in the eastern ports ...
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Statistics of Coal: Including Mineral Bituminous Substances Employed in Arts ... Richard Cowling Taylor Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1855 |
Statistics of Coal: Including Mineral Bituminous Substances Employed in Arts ... Richard Cowling Taylor Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1855 |
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Էջ 298 - WE do therefore hereby farther ordain, that from and after the Date hereof, no Mill or other Engine for Slitting or Rolling of Iron, or any Plating Forge to work with a Tilt-Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel...
Էջ 58 - It was not many years since the famous city of London petitioned the Parliament of England against two anusances or offensive commodities, which were likely to come into great use and esteem : and that "was, Newcastle coals, in regard of their stench, &c., and hops, in regard that they would spoyle the taste of drinck, and endanger the people.
Էջ 419 - Documents relating to the Manufacture of Iron in Pennsylvania," published on behalf of the convention of Iron Masters, in 1850, is an appendix by Charles E.
Էջ vii - TAYLOR.— Statistics of Coal : Including Mineral Bituminous Substances employed in Arts and Manufactures ; with their Geographical, Geological, and Commercial Distribution and Amount of Production and Consumption on the American Continent. With Incidental Statistics of the Iron Manufacture. By RC TAYLOR. Second edition, revised by SS HALDEMAN. Illustrated by five Maps and many wood engravings. 8vo., cloth...
Էջ 215 - Is it not enough to announce these things to an assembly of Christian men and British gentlemen? For twenty millions of money you purchased the liberation of the negro ; and it was a blessed deed. You may, this night, by a cheap and harmless vote, invigorate the hearts of thousands of your countrypeople, enable them to walk erect in newness of life, to enter on the enjoyment of their inherited freedom, and avail themselves (if they will accept them) of the opportunities of virtue, of morality, and...
Էջ 82 - ... may at times be of the utmost importance in concealing the movements of the vessel ; and also the almost, if not altogether entire freedom from spontaneous combustion. The results of the experiments made last spring on the United States steamer
Էջ 269 - Ridge, as may be seen by their different maps. But the fact I believe is, that none of these ridges were ever known by that name to the inhabitants, either native or emigrant, but as they saw them so called in European maps. In the same direction, generally, are the veins of limestone, coal, and other minerals hitherto discovered; and so range the falls of our great rivers. But the courses of the great rivers are at right angles with these. James and...
Էջ 289 - Redfield, and go far to settle the point. These facts seem strong enough to justify the referring this coalfield of Eastern Virginia, to a place in the Oolite system, on the same general parallel with the carbonaceous beds of Whitby and Brora, — that is, in the lower part of that group. § We have to add, in corroboration of these views, that, at a meeting of the British Association, Sept. 1846, Mr. Lyell stated that he * Histoiro dcs V^tanx Fossiles, p.
Էջ 168 - They supply the inhabitants extensively with their fuel. In those parts, indeed, where bogs are scarce, they are the most valuable properties in the country. In not a few localities, they have been wholly cut out; and where this is the case, and other bogs are not easily accessible, the inhabitants have sustained great privations from the want of fuel.f Acres.
Էջ 60 - It cannot be pretended, with any show of reason, that the inhabitants of the former are naturally more ingenious, enterprising, or industrious, than those of the latter. The abundance and cheapness of coal in the north, and its scarcity, and consequent high price, in the south, is the real cause...