. Indianapolis. A historical and statistical sketch of the railroad city, a chronicle of its social, municipal, commercial and manufacturing progress, with full statistical tables . which is most ea-sily mined also the most easily reached. The seams, in many cases, are mined bydrifting in from hill sides, sometimes by shallow shafts, sometimes by merely strip-ping off a few feet of the surface soil. The ground above is all capable of cultiva-tion and can support all the men, and more, necessary to work them. Mining,therefore, can be carried on at the lowest possible cost. But more than this, t
. Indianapolis. A historical and statistical sketch of the railroad city, a chronicle of its social, municipal, commercial and manufacturing progress, with full statistical tables . which is most ea-sily mined also the most easily reached. The seams, in many cases, are mined bydrifting in from hill sides, sometimes by shallow shafts, sometimes by merely strip-ping off a few feet of the surface soil. The ground above is all capable of cultiva-tion and can support all the men, and more, necessary to work them. Mining,therefore, can be carried on at the lowest possible cost. But more than this, thecharacter of the coal itself increases the facility and consequent cheapness of mi-ning. It is soft and easily broken; its laminations are easily separated; it breakseasily across the line of stratification—in fact, is seamed with lines of breakagecrossing those of cleavage. It can thus be knocked out of the seam in large, squaremasses, or chunks, as one might knock bricks out of a dry piled wall. This againassures easy mining. It is almost entirely free from the dangerous gases that pro-duce such fearful calamities in deeper mines of different coal. It is not saying too. IIS D IANAPOLI S THE SINGER,THE STANDARD SEWING MACHINE OE THE WORLD, OVEE 550,000 IILsT TJSE- Over 200,000 Machines are now being sold annually. J- ZEi J±J f »«®§^® yyi«ll©%,IIIIIi| yW® Is the only Company in the world that manufactureb Machines for all kinds of work. Every Family Should Have a Singer Sewing Machine. H 0 <j ft 9! 00 0
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