Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — BIG MOUNTAIN OF COAL [ARTICLE]

BIG MOUNTAIN OF COAL

Indiana Man Hears of Great Discovery in Canada. Indianapolis. Aug. 25.—Edwin Perry, secretary-treasurer of the ’ United Mine Workers, who has returned to headquarters in this city , from the northwest, heard glowing accounts at Fernie, Can., of the “mountain” of coal that was discovered not long ago in Canada near Corbin, about forty miles north of the Montana lire. Mr. Perry did not have an opportunity to visit the deposit of coal, which is more in the nature of a mountain. It was said that a drill was sunk 1,000 feet wifhout reaching the bottom of the coal. The coal is being taken out at present and hauled by wagon, but work has been begun on a railroad that it may be shipped more readily.