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the condition of the roads, being
that they are, in the long run it
would be much cheaper to take a
taxi than to own a car in this
community. This taxi service
would also provide full time work
for at least two people.

The advantages of the telephones

system to the householder are also
imnumerable. Instead of having to
make special trips to a retail
business one could phone and have
the merchandise delivered. One
could also communicate with other _
persons within the village without °
the necessity of having to call
upon them.

Taking all this into consider-
ation we are positive that a tele=
phone system will be a great help
rather than a detriment to this

community. bl elt

bee

Students Essay
Coal

The coal industry began when
the modern steam engine was invented,
that was in 1769.

Millions of people depend upon.
coal as a source of heat, because
it makes a very hot fire and is not
very difficult to handle. Coal is
used to raise steam, smelt minerals,
make coke, heat puiidines, nmanu=
facture gases, and yield ammonia
explosives, fertilizer, tar aniline
dyes, coal-tar pitch and oii.

The United States today mines
and uses more coal than any other
country. More than one hundred and
fifty times as much coal is mined in
the world today than was a century
ago. Steamships, locomotives, and
factories all depend on coal as a
source of power.

Every year, the world mines
over a billion tons of coal. There

are three kinds of coal: Bituminous, ©

Lignite, Anthracite.

One ton of bituminous coal
yields approximately 10,000 cubic
feet of coal gas, 1300 pounds of
coke, 5 pounds of annonia, and 12
gallons of thick, black tar.

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Lignite coal or brown coal .
is the least valuable of the three
kinds of coal. It is nostiy four?
in North America.

Bituminous coal is darker
in colour. lost of the modern
industrics use bituminous coal.

It is mostly found in United States,
Soviet Union and China.

Anthracite coal, or hard coal,
is the cleanest, hottest and most
valuable of all the types, it is
also the rerest.

The United States is the
richest of all the nations in coal.
Coal mining, even with the
nodern equipnent, “Ie"h very danger-
ous business. The gases that come
with coal are both poisonous and

explosive.

Strip mining is the cheapesi,
safest and least comnon way of
extracting coal from the ground,

In an up-to-date mine, the coal
is removed from the seams by electric
cutting machines and carried to

‘ the surface of the earth in electric

ears. There it is separated fron
the chunks of worthless rock, dumped
into coal cars and sent to the world.

WATERFRONT REPORT.

Leslie Lanquist's boat was filled
with water while tied to the pilings
by Lauri Willman's. The.»wlines were
too tight for the height of the water.
They got. the phone out in time.

Paul Salo's boat the “Effort"had

a little catostrophe too. It wos
but at anchor and it got swamped by
a sudden storm. They towed it to
beach with two rowboats.

The calm diggers have all come
back from Klucksivi. Albert Erickson
and Mr.A.Pold came home a little
earlier than the others. They got 26
sacks of calms. Mr. A.Pold got a
sore back and Mr. A. Erickson got a
‘sore jaw.

‘Mr. L.Koski and Mr.V.Jarvinen
came. back a little later with over 30
sacks of calms. Their ‘backs weren't
very healthy either.

The clams were sold to Albert
Tarkanen, who paid $1.75 per box.

Albert Tarkanen with the Sturgeonl
took their clams and his own to Port
Hardy. The money was divided between
all the men according to the number
of sacks they dug. | Cont. page 7