Show s COAL OUTPUT IN 1914 U UTAH A wf W f the exception of 0 the reco record rd break 1913 utah mined more coa coal I 1 in ill ing year 1914 than in any previous year the production in 1914 was short tons tolls to C E according valued at bihss lesher recently appointed coal statistician of the united states geological survey parker resigned the decrease vice edward W as compared with 1913 was short tons in quantity and in value the returns for 1914 indicate a plentiful supply of labor showing a decrease in the average of hut but forty six men employed the decreased production of coal in with 1913 appears utah in 1914 as compared to have been due in part to general depression of business in the last nine months of the year resulting in a decrease in the tonnage necessary to meet the requirements quire ments of the railroads and after the beginning of the war of coal and coke supplied to the large copper smelters shelters sm elters in utah and montana other causes contributing to the decrease in production in 1914 were the smaller demand for domestic sizes because of the generally mild weather throughout the year in the territory served by utah coal and the displacement of a certain amount of the utah chalin coal in the pacific coast markets by reason of the removal of the tariff on oil foreign coal and the resumption of work by the miners in british columbia after the settlement of their labor troubles notwithstanding the decrease in the total production for the year the amount of coal made into coke shows an increase of tons for the first months of the year the demand for coke was so great that the coking plants were operated nearly to capacity but with the curtailment in copper production this demand fell off sharply the efficiency record of the utah miners shows a considerable gain in 1914 as compared with other recent years in that the output per man per day is higier higher there were men employed in 1914 for an average of days and the average output per man was tons for the year and 36 tons for each working day in 1913 men worked an all average of days and produced an average per man of tons for the year and tons per day in 1912 the average production was tons and tons respectively the increased production per man per day in 1914 is accounted for by the increase in the use of machines and in the quantity and percentage of coal mined milled by them the industry was practically free from labor troubles in 1914 as only men were on strike with an all average loss of time of twelve days each during the year the ninth united states census 1870 recorded the first production of coal in utah with an all output of tons ton S ten years later late the production amounted to less til than a n tons toils it assumed sonic some imn thill 0 ai ance i e e in 1882 when the Product io i P amounted to tons and reached the e million ton mark in 1900 in 1909 it u ex ceedee tons in 1913 it was 32 tons and in 1914 it was ton tolls 4 |