Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1916 — Coal to Have Long Reign. [ARTICLE]

Coal to Have Long Reign.

Will coal occupy as important a place in the world’s economic life a century hence as it does today? That it will seems entirely probable. The rapid substitution of .electricity from water power and oil burning has limits and the certain expansion of industry will result in the working of tremendor s bituminous fields, now untapped in Alaska, China and elsewhere, —S jringfleld Republican.