Identifier: reviewofreviewsw33newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aining nor a foreign secretary, speaking through anambassador trained in business and politics. Secretaries of legation, continues Mr. Lowell,may and ought to be men of training and abilityin handling detail. The chief, however, oughtto be what he usually is,—a man of great re-source, initiative, and wide scope. 218 THE AMERICAN MONTHL Y REVIEW OF REVIEWS. THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MINING ITS OWN COAL. LITTLE has been publislied in this countryregarding the first attempt of the federalgovernment to develop a source of coal supplyto meet its own needs. This enterprise, whichhas been conductetl for more than thirty monthsin Albay province, Philippine Islands, is de-scribed at length in an illustrated article con-tributed to the Engineering Magazine for Januaryby Mr. Oscar H. Reinholt, who was associatedwith the work during the years 1903 and 1904.The economic conditions for the undertakingof such an enterprise were very favorable, sincethe Philippines had no established coal-mining
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A 1I11i.ii-i-1m; COAl, MINK LOCATED BY 1)1(11.1.1 NO. industry in private hands. It is no new thing,however, for governments to undertake the min-ing of coal. Since 1901, Cape Colony has beentrying to purchase or to find and develop a coalmine, primarily for the needs of the governmentrailroads. New Zealand has now succeeded inopening two coal mines, avowedly to make thecolonial railways independent of private produc-tion of fuel and to regulate prices of coal by un-loading the surplus product on the market when-ever desired. The government of the DutchEast Indies has long operated state collieries onthe island of Borneo. The Servian State Rail-way now actually con-trols about half the out-put of mineral fuel inthat country. In SouthAmerica, both Vene-zuela and the UnitedStates of Colombia havedecided to embark incoal mining. Thesecountries are not un-like the Philippines inthe possession of unex-p 1 o i t e d mineral re-sources, particularlycoal and lignite. The coal consump-tion of

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