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Show GREAT COAL STATE HAS RESOUBCES LEFT Pennsylvania Has Sufficient Coal Left fo Last. Another Century or So. The totnl production of coal in Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania in 190S, :is reported by the United Slates Geological Survey, was 200.148.2S1 short tons, having a spot value of $276,995,152. This Included 74,347.102 long tons (equivalent to S3.20S.754 short tons) of anthracite, with a spot value of $15S,17S,S49. nnd 117,179,527 short tons of bituminous, with a spot value of $1.1S,-816,303. $1.1S,-816,303. The production of both anthracite and bituminous coal In Pennsylvania In 1908 was less than In 1907, but owing to tho fact that anthracite no longer enters to any great, extent into manufacturing Industries, In-dustries, It was leas seriously affected by the financial depression than bituminous coal. The aggregate production of loth kinds In 190S showed a decrease of 35.-299, 35.-299, SOS short tons, or 14.97 per cent, in quantity and of S42.252.930. or 13.24 per cent In value from that of 1907. Of the total decrease 2,055.319 long tons (2,330.-55S (2,330.-55S short tons), or 2.73 per cent in quantity, quan-tity, and $5,405,207, or 3.3 per cent In wuuu, wuru in iiiu jiruuiivuun iiiiim.i- elte. Notwithstanding ihe decrease, f Me output of anthracite In 190S wns, with the exception of 1907. tho largest ever obtained, and exceeded that of 1906 by 10.702.092 long tons in quantity and $26,-261.155 $26,-261.155 In vnlue. The decreaso In the production of bituminous conl In Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania from 1907 to 1908 was 32,063.650 short Ions, or 21.95 per cent In quantity, and $36.S47,723, or 23.67 per cent In value. Anthracite mining began In Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania in 1S14, when 20 long Ions was produced pro-duced for local consumption. The year 1820 is, however, usually considered to mark the beginning of the anthracite Industry, In-dustry, as In that venr 365 long tons wns shipped from the anthracite region. The first records of bituminous conl production produc-tion In Pennsylvania are for the year 1SI0, when 461.826 short tons was miiK'd. From 1S14 to the close of 1908 tho total production of both anthracite and bituminous bi-tuminous has amounted to about 4.000,-000.000 4.000,-000.000 short tons, the production of anthracite an-thracite being slightly more than half. As. however, the production of bituminous coal by 1908 exceeded that of nnthrncllo bv approximately 34.000,000 tons, and In 19" 07 bv nearlv 65.000.000 tons, it is probable prob-able that by' the close of 1909 tho total production of bituminous coal will have equaled that of anthracite. In 1880 Pennsylvania produced 66 per cent of the entire coal output of the United States, and during the Inst twenty-five years she has produced about 53 per cent of the total. Slnco 1902. however, how-ever, the proportion has been less than half nnd it Is doubtful If It will again exceed 50 per cent. In tho production of bituminous coal alone Pennspylvnnla far outranks the other coal-producing states, the output In 1908 having been nearly 2J times that of Illinois, which ranks second, nnd hnv-Ing hnv-Ing exceeded the combined production of Illinois. West Virginia and Ohio. Pennsylvania alone produces more conl than any single foreign country except Great Britain. Pennsylvania's production produc-tion of coal exceeds. In fact, tho combined com-bined production of all foreign countries outside of Great Britain, Germany and Austria-Hungary. Pennsylvania's output In, 190S wns 3J times that of Austria-Hungary, Austria-Hungary, 4.8 times that of Franco, nnd 7 times that of Russia, these being, respectively, re-spectively, fourth, fifth nnd sixth among the coal-producing countries of the world. M. R. Campbell, of the United States Geological Survey, places the amount of coal originally In the anthrnclto fields of Pennsvlvnnla at 21,000.000,000 short tons and In the bituminous fields at 112,-574,000.000 112,-574,000.000 short tons. The percentage of waste In anthracite mining has been materially reduced by modern methods, but It Is- probable that the exhaustion to the close of 190S has actually doubled the production, amounting to. say. 4.030.-000,000 4.030.-000,000 short tons. This would leave still In the ground approximately 16.970,060.- 000 tons, which would bo capable of producing, pro-ducing, at the rate, of 1 ton of coal lost for each ton mined. S. 425. 000.000 tons, or approximately 102 times the anthracite produced in 190S. If for the bituminous production 1 ton of coal Is estimated as lost for every 2 tons mined, the exhaustion lo the close of 190S has been 2,945.000.000 tons, which would leave still In the ground more than 109.000.000,000 short tons, about 930 times the production of 190S. In other words. If the exhaustion Is 1J times tho production of bituminous coal in Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, at tho rate of production In 1908 the supply would last approximately 620 years. |
