Coal Beyond The Mississippi

cent reports made to the Government Land Office give the estimated coal area at 513,000 square miles, scattered throughout eleven States and Territories. Kansas claims 80,000 square miles; Iowa, 24,000; Texas, 30,000, and Dakota, 100,000. But little of it is developed, and owing to the cost of developiiig and the uncertainty of reaching workable veins, there is but comparatively little mining. As the consumptive demands inorease, these beds will be developed to supply local trado. Tho ontries at the recent State Fair footed up as follows : Cattle, 219; horses, 297 ; sheep and swine, 133; poultry, 91 ; farm and garden produce and manufactured articles, 409 ; farm iinplements, 251 ; vehicles, 80 ; inachiuery, 278 ; ruanufactured goods, musical instrument and sewing machines, 218; paintings, needlework, etc, 6(56 ; miscellaneous articlos, 93 ; speed trials, 40 ; militarv, 4 ; making a total of 2,840. The Flint & Pere Marquette Railway Company entered tor exhibition not for premiums, 600 articles, and there were nine entries of base bali clubs.