Word: coal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lecturers. Gelasio Caetani, Ore Dressing; Robert Van Arsdale Norris, Coal Mining; Frederick Erskine Olmsted, Forestry; James Ralph Finlay, Economics of Mining; Dorsey Alfred Lyon, Electro-Metallurgy; Thomas Arthur Rickard, Mining Geology; Charles Adams Platt and James Knox Taylor, Architectural Design; James Flack Norris, on Organic Chemistry...
Director Holmes showed the need for conservation of our mineral resources by stating that at the present increasing rate of consumption and waste, the United States coal supply will be exhausted within two centuries. In securing the coal supply for future generations, an important step will be the enacting of uniform laws in all states, for at present, maintained the speaker, the mining states, instead of co-operating, are engaged in strong competition...
Considering the question of mine ownership and control, Mr. Holmes favored the present attitude of the Federal Government in refusing to sell for a nominal price the coal lands in Alaska which it still owns. While the United States Bureau of Mines does not have police power over these lands, the speaker argued that if the lands were entrusted to the supervision of the states alone, corrupt political influence could soon place the mines entirely within the control of private corporations...
...Seminary of Economics. "The Duties on Coal Tar Products and their Effects," by Mr. C. W. Haughton, in Upper Dane...
...Seminary of Economics. "The Duties on Coal Tar Products and their Effects," by Mr. C.W. Haughton, in Upper Dane...