Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — Coal in the Northwest. [ARTICLE]

Coal in the Northwest.

In the Canadian northwest there are immense coal fields. The coal-bearing area is estimated at. 6.5,000 square miles, and the quantity of fuel underlying at 4,500,000 to 9,000;00O tons per square mile. There is lignite in the Souris country in Manitoba, not far from the United States boundary. Farther west the true bituminous is struck at the Galt mines, near the Rockies and near the United States line. ‘AU along the C nadian Pacific railway there is more or less coal, but the outcrop is pariieul rly noticeable as the Rocky Mountains are approached from the east. All the coal supplied to the CaruulUh Pacific at Brandon and points west is exclusively the product of Cananda. As already stated, anthracite is found in unlimited quantity in the heart of the Rockies, and this coal field is so much nearer California, Oregon, Washington Territory, etc,, thun any United States anthracite coal field, the chances are in favor of its proprietors findiijE an unlimited demand among the millions on the Pacific coast When Vancouver Island is reached, here is another coal field of unlimited extent.