Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-01 | Page 10 | Two Million Tons Texas Coal Output

110 MILLION T01S TEXflSCJL OUTPUT Only Two Men Killed Last Year, While Thousands Were Employed. The production of coal in Texas in 1912 passed the 2,000,000-ton mark, with a value at the mines of $3.G55,7M. These figures nre record breakers for the state. The coals of Texas occur In throe of the geologic systems, the Carboniferous, the Cretaceous and the Tertiary. The Carboniferous coals are bituminous in character and are found in the north-central north-central part of tho state, in an area covering approximately 11.000 square miles. The productive portion Is confined con-fined to the central part of tho field. The principal mining operations are in Kastland, Palo Pinto, Erath. Wise and Young counties. The Cretaceous coals occur In the southern part of the state j and are mined near Eagle Pass, in Maverick Mave-rick county. These are also classed as bituminous coals. Lignite beds of Tertiary Terti-ary age extend entirely across the state from the eastern boundary of Sabine river riv-er in a southwesterly direction to the Rio Grande. In the southwestern ex-tremlty, ex-tremlty, near Laredo, in TVebb county, the lignite merges into a coal of higher grade, and the Webb county production Is classod as bituminous. The development develop-ment of the lignite resources of Texas began in tho last decade of tho last century, cen-tury, and the advent of the gas producer, in -which lignite is found to serve excellently, excel-lently, is giving a further Impetus to production. The output of lignlto in 1912 reached nearly 1,000,000 tons. The number of men employed In the coal and lignite mines of Texas in 1912 was 5127, -who worked an average of 230 days, against 5353 men for an average of 226 days In 1911. The general average production per man was 427 tons for tho year and 1.S6 tons per day In 1912, against 3(19 tons and 1.G3 tons, respectively, respec-tively, in 1911. ' There were only two fatal accidents aj H?.e, coal or Henlto mines of Texas in 1912, one man being killed in a shaft and one on the surface.