Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1897 — Coal. [ARTICLE]

Coal.

The first record that we hawt of ooal is about three hundred years oefore the Christian era. Coal was used as fuel in England as early as 852; and In 1284 the first charter to dig for it was granted by Henry 111. to the Inhabitants of Newcastle-on-Tyne.