Answer:
I am an English word that is as long as I am valued. What am I?
Although it sounds like I work on a transportation device I actually work in a restaurant.
My first is in some but not in all. My second is in tiny but not in tall. My third in little but no in big. My fourth in port but not in pig. My whole is made in nature's way. For clothing rugs used every day.
There are four of us but it seems like everyone loves spades the most.
I cannot be burned in fire or drowned in water
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.