On Coal at Home and Abroad: With Relation to Consumption, Cost, Demand, and Supply and Other Inquiries of Present Interest; Being Three Articles Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, with an Appendix |
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... North of England Coal Pits , which will help to acquaint the reader with certain conditions of mining exercising a considerable influence upon the extraction and cost of coal . I have not thought it desirable to alter either the second ...
... North of England Coal Pits , which will help to acquaint the reader with certain conditions of mining exercising a considerable influence upon the extraction and cost of coal . I have not thought it desirable to alter either the second ...
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... . Leifchild. CONTENTS . I. CONSUMPTION AND COST OF COAL . II . ON THE COAL FIELDS OF NORTH AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN III . FATAL ACCIDENTS IN COAL MINES . APPENDIX . PAGE 1 49 88 129 COAL AT HOME AND ABROAD . cause . I. CONSUMPTION.
... . Leifchild. CONTENTS . I. CONSUMPTION AND COST OF COAL . II . ON THE COAL FIELDS OF NORTH AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN III . FATAL ACCIDENTS IN COAL MINES . APPENDIX . PAGE 1 49 88 129 COAL AT HOME AND ABROAD . cause . I. CONSUMPTION.
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... North Staffordshire Railway Company we read , that whereas the coal for their locomotives had previously cost them from 8s . to 10s . per ton ( they drawing it from their own coal field ) , coal has recently cost them from 18s . to 20s ...
... North Staffordshire Railway Company we read , that whereas the coal for their locomotives had previously cost them from 8s . to 10s . per ton ( they drawing it from their own coal field ) , coal has recently cost them from 18s . to 20s ...
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... North of England , and to take the facts there offered to us on the side of the miners , by a local paper . In these great coal fields the owners are affirmed to have been realising about 13s . per ton on the prices of coal maintained ...
... North of England , and to take the facts there offered to us on the side of the miners , by a local paper . In these great coal fields the owners are affirmed to have been realising about 13s . per ton on the prices of coal maintained ...
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... North America alone possesses tracts of coal - bearing strata as yet almost untouched of seventy times the area of our own . But it may be doubted whether the manufacturing supremacy of this kingdom can be maintained after the ...
... North America alone possesses tracts of coal - bearing strata as yet almost untouched of seventy times the area of our own . But it may be doubted whether the manufacturing supremacy of this kingdom can be maintained after the ...
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