Excerpt from The Black Trail of AnthraciteThe men who developed these coal fields taught the world the unsuspected powers of the carbonized sunbeams that they dug out of the tomb down deep in the earth. They have put the world in their debt and made us rich, while most of them died impoverished.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.