Coal

The Most Valuable Commodity in the
World To-day |

A Necessity in the Development of All Industries.

Coal is to-day conceded to be the greatest commodity of
the world. From the energy derived from coal we
run our great railways, electric street railways, our ele-
vators in the large buildings, and light our cities and our
foties: Ii drives the great fleet of steamships crossing
the oceans from one end of the world to the other, and
turns the wheels in the mills and factories throughout the
industrial world. With coal we cook our meals and warm
our house.

Coal, converted into coke, makes possible the smelting
business, the basis of the great metaliferous mining indus-
try, one of the greatest factors in the development of the
Canadian West, hence, we find that coal is actually the
foundation and the basis of the commercial and industrial
life. It is as necessary to the life of commerce.and industry
as the grain grown in the field is to the sustenance of man.

Through this wonderful energy we manufacture steél,
and build railroads, warships, machinery for manufacturing
and agricultural purposes, erect our high biildings of steel
structure and build our magnificent steel bridges, etc., in
fact, there is nothing that we use in the daily life where
coal has not been needed and is not essential in the making
and manufacturing of the many thousands of implements
and utensils so necessary to man. ‘Therefore

Coal is More Valuable Than Gold

to a great and expanding country. It is responsible for
England’s industrial greatness and the wonderful develop-
ment of the trade and commerce in many of the States of
the Union and Provinces of Canada. Without question
the mining of high-class coal presents to-day the greatest
business opportunity in all the West, and especially on the
Pacific seaboard. High-class steam, domestic and coking
coal is as staple as wheat in the bin. The Western States
are now being developed with marvelous rapidity; the great
progress is the wonder of the world. More coal must be
produced, and to those who can and will produce it there

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