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Show COAL IN WYOMING DURING PAST YEAR The production of coal In Wyoming in 1911, according to figures compiled by E. W. Parker, just, made public by the geological survey, was 6,74t,S64 short tons, valued at $10,oOS,8G3. As in most of the other states in the Rockv Mountain region, the coal production produc-tion of Wyoming was considerably smaller small-er than In 1910. when the record output was obtained, but it was larger than in am- other preceding year. Compared with moo the output In 101J showed a normal Increase. Coal mining In all the Rockv Moutnain states was abnormally stimulated In 1010 by tho strike among the miners of tho middle west, Wyoming's Wyo-ming's production In that year Increased more than 1,100.000 tons over 1303. reacbine a total of 7.533.0SS short tons. With the return to normal conditions in 1311 the production in Wyoming fell off to 6,74-1,864 short tons, a decrease of 7S8,-22-1 short tons, or 10,5 per cent. Tho value declined from 51I.706.1S7 to ?1C.-fiOS.SCP.. ?1C.-fiOS.SCP.. a decrease of Si. 197.321, or 10.2 per rent. The difference in the percentage per-centage of decrease between quantity and value was not due to any actual advance In prici. There was a general decline In value? for commercial coal In most of the coal-producing regions, but In Carbon and Sweetwater counties, where a large part of the product is mined for railroad use by companies affiliated af-filiated with the transportation Interests, the prices were apparently somewhat higher. The quantity of coal undercut by machines ma-chines In Wyoming in 1!11 was 1.04S.RS9 short tons, or 2S H ner cent of the total output, against 1.4GS.9IH short tons, or 1P.3 pr cent of the total, In 1010. Companies whose aggregate production amounted to 5.3M.342 short tons reported In 1011 that 1.527,313 tons, or 28.4 per cent, was mined by hand and that 1.SD2,-840 1.SD2,-840 tons, or 3f per cent, was shot off the solid, the remainder, l,9iS.5S9 tons, being mined by machines. |