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Show COAL PRODUCTION k VASTLY INCREASED t . WASJlINf.TON, July K. lUtumlnous pioJuflloii In the Unitct) Slates dur-tUK dur-tUK the lirst half of the present year was the greatest ever reached in any half-year half-year period, the tcenlo lil survey announced an-nounced t finish t. Kstl males hy the survey sur-vey liut the six months' output at L'tll,-00", L'tll,-00", 00") tons, a ?,' per rent inc rease over the first half of lfUTi ami a n per cent in-i in-i reuse over the last fix months of that year. Tho amount mined In the six months' period exceeds by several million tons the reeord production of tho first lialf of 11U3. Increased consumption by railroads and the- iron, steel and other industries is prlven as one cause of the increased output. Exports in the period Riven were about 10 per cent preatcr than in the corresponding cor-responding period of the year before. Movement of coal through the Soo canal shows an increase of SO per cent and coal used in coking has increased tibout 50 per cent. |