American inventions and inventors . e officer. Fortu-nately a firm of iron factors who had purchased some of thecoal succeeded in making it burn. They announced thefact in the Philadelphianewspapers, and otheriron - workers tried thecoal. Soon all the fur-naces were using it. Both anthracite andbituminous coal arefreely mined in vari-ous sections of theUnited is coal enoughunderground to lastfor many used to be saidthat England was thegreat coal-mining coun-try, for her coal fieldsare nearly as extensive asthose of all the rest of Eur-ope. But the United States hasa s
American inventions and inventors . e officer. Fortu-nately a firm of iron factors who had purchased some of thecoal succeeded in making it burn. They announced thefact in the Philadelphianewspapers, and otheriron - workers tried thecoal. Soon all the fur-naces were using it. Both anthracite andbituminous coal arefreely mined in vari-ous sections of theUnited is coal enoughunderground to lastfor many used to be saidthat England was thegreat coal-mining coun-try, for her coal fieldsare nearly as extensive asthose of all the rest of Eur-ope. But the United States hasa supply of coal that will apparentlybe hardly diminished when that of theBritish Islands is entirely used. The single State of Pennsylvania has a greater store of coal thanall Europe, and her part is less than one-tenth of the stockof coal in the United States. Even if the forests of the entire country should be de-stroyed, w^e should not want for fuel. But let us rememberthat not only would the loss of our forests deprive us of wood. # BLACKSMITH AT HIS FOKGE, 50 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. for other purposes than merely to keep us warm, but it wouldalso cause great injury to the farming interests of the coun-try. If we would have good crops we must have properrainfalls; without forests the rain would do greater andgreater injury and less and less good. We ought to do allin our power to help preserve our forests, and as far as wecan to increase the number of trees. CHAPTER Thomas ! Thomas! The fire is out! Get right up andgo over to neighbor Wallaces and borrow some fire. Itwas a cold morning, eight degrees below zero, and Mr. Wal-lace lived three-quarters of a mile away. The sun wouldnot rise for two hours; but, when mother called, the boys in-stantly obeyed. Thomas hurriedly dressed, snatched a shovelwhich was standing by the hearth, and hastily shutting theoutside door, ran as fast as he could to the nearest course he hurried, for was not moth
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