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This report is to place the other side of the subject of these crea- 

 tures before the public, showing their place in Nature, which may 

 not have been fully recognized when they were placed in a wholly 

 unprotected list. 



While we have based the above report on economic features alone, 

 we should call attention to the ethical and educational value of our 

 birds. Who has not been inspired by the free and open song of a 

 wild bird, now too scarce? Seriously, who would be willing to see 

 the twenty black-listed birds named above forever exterminated in 

 this State. In addition to their cash value, we should make an ap- 

 peal for the birds on account of the uplift they give us. The bird 

 lover, on the wings of the bird he loves, in some true sense, is lifted 

 up, up, up, where the Alps on Alps rise, to those far heights where 

 he could never climb alone, and this was +he feeling in the heart 

 of the poet Bryant, when he watched the wonderful waterfowl take 

 her flight and cried out: 



"Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven 



Hath swallowed up thy form; yet on my heart 



Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, 

 And shall not soon depart. 



"He from zone to zone, 



Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, 

 In the long way that I must tread alone, 



Will lead my steps aright." 



REPORT OF THE MINERALOGIST 



By BAIRD HALBBRSTADT, F. G. S. 



In thfe short time allotted, it would be idle to attempt to give an 

 account of all the minerals found within the confines of the great 

 State of Pennsylvania, so abundantly has it been endowed, exceed- 

 ing in mineral wealth perhaps that of any other state in the Union. 



Within it are found the great Anthracite coal fields, exceeding 

 in value and extent those of any known anthracite fields in the world. 

 The Connellsville coking coal, surpasses in value the coal of any 

 '>ther developed region in the United States for the manufacture of 

 coke. Nor have we anywhere in this great country of ours a coal 

 for illuminating gas making purposes that excels or even equals that 

 mined in the Westmoreland-Youghiogheny gas coal region embraced 

 in the western townships of Westmoreland and southeastern town- 

 ships of Allegheny counties. Many of the mines in Clearfield, Cam- 

 bria and Somerset counties produce ideal steam coals. 



ANTHRACITE COAL 



The anthracite region produced in 1910, 75,331,413 long tons Avhich, 

 with that dredged from the rivers (91,833 tons), makes up a total of 

 75,433.246 long tons or 84,485.236 short tons, whose spot value was 

 1160,275,302, or nearly three times the value of the entire coal pro- 

 duct of West Virginia, the second state in rank as a coal producer. 



