The World's Coal Supply.

“When will the coal be gone?” is a question asked in Baker Brownell's “The New Universe,” recently published. Answering it he states that there are, in the world, more than 7,000 billion tons of coal, of which the United States has more than half; Canada has 16 per cent., Europe 11 per cent., Asia 17 per cent and the other regions together less than 6 per cent. “If the United States burns coal at 400 million tons to a billion tons a year for 4,000 years, she would barely exhaust her stock. Others are not so fortunate. By each limiting their burning to 400 million tons a year, England can keep supplied for 450 years, and Germany for one thousand years.