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Show REPORT UPS! COIL OUTPUT IS ISSUED Industry in United States Has Grovn Rapidly to Vast Proportions. WASHINGTON, May 21, Statistics of coal mining in the. United States for 1303 are givon in a bulletin good to be Issued by Director Durand of Urn. bureau bu-reau of the censuif, department of commerce. com-merce. It Was prepared by Special Agent D. A. Morrow under the supervision supervi-sion of Isaac A. llourwlch. expert special spe-cial agent, for mining. The total production of coal in the United States in 1309, In round numbers,- was 460,000,000 tons. The total totpage of bituminous coul wa,s 379,000,-000 379,000,-000 and tho total tonnage of anthracite Sl.000.000. The, mines which nuiiln i mi . I Plcto reports produced I5S.000.000 tons of which 40S.000.000 tons were produr.-i for sale or for usu as fuel and o0,u('0.uj" (of bituminous coal) .wore convcrV.'" Into coko at the mines, producing 3-.-000,000 tons of coke. (A few ' othc. mte Production of conl lb. ,L ,-000'00(, tons-whieh did not furnish full statistics as to valu, expenses, ex-penses, etc., or wero operated bv penal ngiVrcs) S' "0t lne,lldc(I thu0t: Total Value of Output., The total "alue of all products of tho industry was 5577.1 13,000. and th total n-?i.??P(;nsc3 ot 00aI "lining and coke TnaCtVrc , 1110 ml,les w'e ?530.-.15.1,000. ?530.-.15.1,000. of which about four-fifths was for wages and salaries. The number of age earners employed at mines, with complete reports, was 713,000. Anthracite coal Is produced almost ex-cluslcly ex-cluslcly In a comparatively small area nLfaS;cr,n,.Pcnnsy!van1"- T1,c lost important im-portant bituminous field Is the Appalachian, Appala-chian, ex I ending from western Pennsvl-anln. Pennsvl-anln. and eastern Ohio .southwestward as far as Alabama, ih0 next most important im-portant is that embracing a large part of Illinois, southwestern Indiana and part of western Kentucky. The large-areas large-areas In Xorth Dakota and tho Roi-kv Mounta n states arc mainly of lignite and subbltuminous coal The marked prc-emlncnee of Pennsvl-vanla. Pennsvl-vanla. among the. coal mining states 'is shown. In 1909 Pennsylvania produced nearly hair the total coal output of Hummed Hu-mmed States. The anthracite Industry was practically confined to this state, and its bituminous tonnage was greater than that of any other ihroo. stotcs combined. com-bined. Next In order wore West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Illinois and Ohio. Together these four states mined 7'.9 per cent of the total coal production of tho United States. Quick Development. As showing tho great development of Urn coal mining industry from ISM to 1909, the total output wjis 111,000,000 tons In ISS9 and 460,000.000 tons in 1909. an increaso of 3t9,000,000 tons, or 22fi per cent. By Jar the greater part of this increase was in the bituminous production, which rose from 0T,, 629,00 tons to ?.7S.975,000 tons, an increase of 296.3 per cent. Jn Pennsylvania the In-crcapo In-crcapo in tho bituminous output was 101.461,000 tons, in West Virginia 45,-oOl.OOO 45,-oOl.OOO tons. In Illinois 3S.792.000 tons, and in Ohio 17,SS6,000 tons, or 2S0 per cent, 732 per cent. 320 per cent and 179 per cent, respectively. The average value per ton has Increased In-creased in every region except tho Hocky mountain, northern ureat plains and Pacific Pa-cific coast. For tho entire country the increase for bituminous coal was from 99 cents In 1SS9 to $1.07 in 1909: in the Appalachian field, the most Important, the average value of bituminous coal was So cents per ton in ISS9 nnd 9u cents in 1909. and that of anthracite, 31.44 and ?I.S4 respectively. In general, the increases in average values mav uc ascribed to higher wages and greater cost of mine supplies. Capital Invested. The capital invested in coal mines and tlio output and value of coal produced pro-duced wore more than three times as great hi 1909 us in IS99. and the acreage acre-age of land controlled was more than tour limes as great. By far the greater part of this development look place in bituminous mining. In general, from 1S99 to 1909 both the average expense of produc tion and the average value of coal increased. This is especially true of anthracite. In 1S99 tho average expense reported per short ton of anthracite was $1.34, as compared with $1.72 in 1909. while the average value per short ton was $1.11, as compared com-pared with SI. 8 1 in 1909. The increase in expense amounted to 38 cents per ton and the Increase In value to 40 centts per ton. The avcrago wages Increased 31 cents per ton. The corporate form of organization predominated among the" producers of coal in 1909. The 1912 corporations com-piised com-piised 52.6 per cent of the total number of concerns reporting, operated 68.3 per cent of the total number of mines, cm-ployed cm-ployed 93.6 per cent of the wage earners in the Industry, and produced 9. 6 per cent of the entire quantity of coal mined, while there were also lUoh individual in-dividual operators, 66 1 firms nnd thirty-one thirty-one others reporting, nearly all of those wero relatively small concerns. Incorporations In-corporations the avoraco production per operator was about 223,000 tons. for firms 20.000 tons and for Individuals S000 tons. The average wage payment per ton for anthracite produced by corporations was 51.15, as compared wllh 99 cents for the output of othor concerns, but tho latter figure Includes no valuation for the services of the seventy-two proprietors pro-prietors performing manual labor. Of the entire output of coal In 1909 nearlv one-half was mined by operators known" to be. closely affiliated with railroads rail-roads or industrial concerns. Producers connected with rail roads mined more than one-fourth of the total coal production, pro-duction, and morn than three-fourths of the total In ihe case of anthracite. The coal mining subsidiaries of iron and steel companies produced about one-tenth one-tenth of the total lonnago and thosii of other industrial concerns nearly as much. |
