Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADDED IMPORTANCE OF COAL. It is probable that not one individual in ten, of the inhabitants of a country, not one in five even of those whose present and future is more or less bound up with the production of coal, has anything like a full or clear conception of the wonderful, indeed it may be said, of the marvellous part coal has played, is playing, in the greatest war the world ever saw. Some know that coal supplies power that makes transportation of huge bodies of men, munitions and guns possible, who know little or nothing of the part it plays in the manufacture of the deadliest explosives. Said one in an address lately, "There was a time—and it is only a century since — when practically the one thing needed for an army was food. When the lord on the hill wanted to fight his rival, to take a slice of his territory away, he had to concern himself with having a certain number of fighting men, and then -with supplying them with food. War is now an industrial game; and the foundation of industry, as we know it now, is coal. And so it is that you are at the very root and foundation of the great war industry. Unless we have an abundance, or at least a sufficiency, of coal, war cannot be carried on." Some flippantly may say, "Oh, yes, we realize fully that it has grown in importance from its increased cost." It is possible that some judge of its value only by its increased price, and yet coal must not be valued by the price it costs. One cannot arrive at the true value of coal by what it costs in the market. Coal is the agent that makes possible the industrial development of our province, just as it underlies the prosperity of the most advanced countries in the world, at the present time. If Nova Scotia, as it is hoped, is to become really the workshop of our great Dominion, th... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.