A Piece of Wood and Coal by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 29, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 17.

A Piece of Wood and Coal

By Editor

Referring to an answer to a correspondent in our "Question Corner" that mineral coal came from trees that had been deposited in the earth, a correspondent writes from Curtiss, Wisconsin, that in 1856, in St. Charles, Saginaw County, Michigan, he purchased some coal at a mine near Chesaning, where coal could be got by removing two or three feet of surface dirt; and in a load of coal that he purchased there, he found a piece of wood and coal, weighing about fifteen pounds, consisting of a large knot of a tree, about half of which had become coal, and the other half was still the natural wood. We do not recall having seen a specimen of this kind, but there ought to be in some of the museums.