Show III I U S. S lEADS WORLD I IN PRODUCTION OF COAL Shortage Declared Due to Causes Other Than Lack of Output That the tile present c coal al shortage in the tile I United States is duo due to causes other than I lack of or output by our mines is indicated j by a compilation by the tile National City Bank of or New York which estimates ourI our I total output of or 1917 as greater than in any I earlier year and shows that the tile United I I States actually produces nearly 45 per percent percent cent of or the tile coal of the tile world In 1860 we were producing less than 10 per cent of the worlds world's coal output in 1870 15 per percent percent percent cent In 1880 21 per pcr cent in 1890 34 per perI percent percent cent in In 1910 43 per percent cent in 1916 44 I per pel cent and the tile 1917 record will probably probably ably show our share of the worlds world's outI output output out out- I put fully 45 per cent The Tile coal coid production of the United States grow grew from less than a half million million million mil mil- lion short tons in 1830 to tons in 1840 in 1860 in 1880 isso in 1890 in 1900 0 in 1910 in 1916 and estimated at 6 short i I tons in 1917 1911 The United States has been for many years I he worlds world's largest producer of ot coal In 1913 the year preceding the war anc anci and andi i i the tile latest normal year for world I tion Uon the United States produced short tons against In Great I Britain in Germany Jermany i in Hungary Austria-Hungary in France I in Russia In Belgium Belgium j I and in Japan The rhe total world 1 of that was product year I tons our share allane of the total being approximately 38 per cent edIt In 1916 our share of I the worlds world's product was about 44 per pel cent and anti in 1917 will presumably approximate 45 per pel cent The Tile United States is quite naturally the largest coal producer of the world AcI According Ac- Ac I cording to the banks bank's statement its coal i supply far exceeds that of or any other I country the estimated supply being I short tons against iso I in iii Great Britain the next largest producer and In Germany which ranks third as a coal producer u Chinas China's s supply ranks a next to I 3 ds rl that of tile the United d States s and is estimated estimated esti esti- I mated at short tons orI orless or or- I less than half ou out our own but Chinas China's output output output out out- put of coal is extremely small a trifle of I tons tolls in 1913 a cc according to the i bank banks statement So large is our supply supply sup- sup I ply that according to the geological stir stir- vey the tIle quantity of coal produced from the the mines of the United States since I II I coal mining began a century ago is but lut about one half of 1 per cent of the original inal supply the entire output of ot our mines from the beginning of coal mining in 1800 to the en end of 1917 having been 12 tots tons out of an estimated supply of I Notwithstanding the fact that we have v far tile the worlds world's largest supply and are ais also th the worlds world's largest producer of coal than thOse ot of our exports Ire are much less imi certain other countries having a a. mush smaller supply Great Britain's coal exports ex cx- in 1913 1912 the tile latest normal year amounted ports to short tons and anti I eX-I Germanys Germany's about short tons while the tWe United States in ill the tile fiscal year 1913 exported but hut about short tons Since the beginning of the war however our coal exports have have shown I a a. slight Increase se having been in III 1917 about 20 oer Der cent more than in 1913 1013 while those of Great Britain meantime declined an and those of Germany were of cour course e I Ian confined to trade with the adjacent neutral neutral neu neu- countries The total value of coal oat exported from the United States In the fiscal year vear 1917 was against in 1913 of this wo worth th exported export Id I'd in ill 1917 went to Canada to Cuba abo about abot t. t to South America and 1 I to Italy |