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 3