The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . era ofdevelopment will follow in due course. There is an ample market for all thecoal produced in Alberta. The output ofthe mines is restricted only by the shortageof cars and transportation facilities. Thegreat increases of population in the coal-mining districts and the rise of hundreds ofvillages and scores of towns and cities hascreated a very extensive source of con-sumption, and has encouraged a numberof companies to engage in the manufactureof coke for supplying the smelters ofSouthern British
The Prairie Provinces of Canada : their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources . era ofdevelopment will follow in due course. There is an ample market for all thecoal produced in Alberta. The output ofthe mines is restricted only by the shortageof cars and transportation facilities. Thegreat increases of population in the coal-mining districts and the rise of hundreds ofvillages and scores of towns and cities hascreated a very extensive source of con-sumption, and has encouraged a numberof companies to engage in the manufactureof coke for supplying the smelters ofSouthern British Columbia and Montana. The distribution of the output for theyear 1912 is given in tons of 2,000 lb. inthe following table : Sold for Con-sumption inAlberta. Sold for Con-sumption inother Provinces. Sold for Exportto United States. Total. Bituminous coal ...Anthracite coalLignite coal 1,,700 027-539 98,559 12,589 483,132 86,682 3OO 6,141 1,638,088 34,589I,ll6,8l2 Total sales 2,102,24660,000 594,280 2,789,489 Briquettes ... 29,920 806,706 90,000 Coke 1,987 96,951 105,644 216. 1. A COAL BED NEAR NEW PLANT AT LETHBRIDGE COLLIERIES. 2. COAL MINING IN AN ALBERTA NATURAL GAS WELL BURNING. 217 THE PRAIRIE PROVINCES OF CANADA Greater attention than was formerly givento the question is now being paid to thepreparation of coal for the machinery is installed in all thelarger mines. This is no doubt due to thedemands of the market, and also in a greatmeasure to the strict and careful super-vision of mining operations by the Pro-vincial Government. A supplementary industry to that ofmining the coal is the manufacture ofbriquettes. The lignite and semi-bituminousvarieties slack easily, and unless somethingis done to utilize the waste there is con-siderable loss. Such waste is obviated bythe manufacture of slack coal intobriquettes. The process involves thecompression of the slack into small blocksof varying sizes. Briquettes are cleaner to
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