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a consumption of coal as does a hard winter, and if hard coal
was available baseburners would be installed instead of the
present unsatisfactory furnaces, and the dirty bituminous coal now
available would not be used in houses. There should also be a
market for 750,000 tons for marine use at present. Population is
increasing so fast in the west that these figures will be doubled in’
five years. ores

or marine purposes anthracite is an absolute necessity on ac-
count of its freedom from tar..

G. F. MONCKTON, M.E.

Dunean’s, B.C., November, 1911.