nt to the United States mint full $40,000,-000 in gold. Its entire gold product to this time is estimated at more than $800,000,000. Over all the farWestern States and Territories the preciousmetals, gold and silver, seem to be scattered inprofusion, and the amount of mineralwealth yet to be… … A CENTURYS PROGRESS, 41 ally of petroleum, or rock-oil, affording the cheapest illuminatingmaterial in the world. Mineral coal was first discovered and used in Pennsylvania atthe period of the Revolution. A boat load was sent down theSusquehanna from Wilkesbarre for the use of the Continentalworks…
Prophecies · United States
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