Points on Coal and the Coal Business

Containing an Explanation of how Coal was Formed, Coal Veins, how They Were Deposited. A Description of the Coal Flora, Vegetation, Coal Discovery, Introduction, History, Mining, Preparation and Marketing, Shipping, Statistics, Data, Gases and Fires in Mines, Biographical Sketches and Record of Coal Operators, Etc., Etc., Etc. History of the Anthracite Coal Field and Its Surroundings, with Miscellany

by Charles Miesse