Show COAL OAL C production C TION GROWS OK 9 IV I 1 IN I 1 idt VALUES ALUES V V T i carbon and emery counties producing nine tenths of the output from hydrocarbon hydro carbon deposits the production of coal la in utah in 1111 according to figures complied compiled by E W parker just made public by the united states geological survey was as short tons havin having ing a spot bilue of this production was about the same as in 1910 tho the difference being lees less than fire five thousand tons the value increased or a little more than 0 5 per cent that the pro ducklow did not show a larger decrease and that the value showed any increase at all waa was due to developments in emery county which nearly trebled its production of 1910 tons the output in 1911 being tone tons the rho average price tor for the emery county product advanced from it 98 a ton in 1910 to 2 09 fit 1911 all the other counties showed decreased production in lit 1311 1911 und and carbon county by fai fill the most important producer showed also a slight do cline in la price summit and uintah counties bad increased ton tonnage nages but higher prices in addition to being the moat most important coal producing county at ol tho the state carbon county la Is the only one in which coke au 6 made in 1911 a total of tons of coal an art increase of tors over 1910 was made into coke la carbon county returns from mining companies compan lea representing resenting rep over 80 90 per cent of the total coal production of the ata ta show that although les less than a 3 per cent of or the output in 1911 nas mined by machines the practice of shooting from froza the solid has not obtained a strong foothold in utah out of short tons for which the methods of mining were report reported ud short tons was undercut cr sheared by hand and 70 tons mined by machines tho the quantity sho off the solid was 19 V short tons or about 77 per cent of the total output of the state in spite of the small proportion of coal undercut by machines tho the average tonnage won by the minors miners Is considerably above the average bituminous production per ver man tor for the united states libor troubles are not of frequent occurrence lu lit tho the coal mines of will and in this respect 1911 aa as consistent with the rule only onu suspension of work because of dissatisfaction with conditions was reported the miners affected idle but three day dayt the mines are practically all wonted eight hours a dy the th hinti united states census recorded uie tile first production of coal in utah an output of tons ten years later the production amounted to less than tons it assumed some importance in 1882 when the brodu production tion amounted to tons and it reached the million ton mark in 1900 in 1909 it exceeded two million tons 01 1 S 4 0 UV production aa As 1 im moat most of the other states in lit the rock mountain region the coal production oi oi wyoming was considerably smaller than in IDIO 1910 when the record output was obtained but bu t it was larger than in any other preceding year compared with 1909 the output in 1911 showed a normal increase coal mining in all the rocky mountain states was abnormally stimulated in 1910 by the strike among the miners of tho the middle west production in that year increased more than I 1 tons c er 1909 reaching a total of short tons with OF CO ili IN UTAH IN I 1 SHOUT SHORT TOS TONS I 1 1007 1800 1008 1000 1000 1900 2200 OU 1003 1005 j lolo 1010 17 1000 1006 I 1 1011 1911 1317 the return to normal conditions in 1311 tho the production in lit wyoming fell off to short abort torn toni a decrease of 14 short tons or 10 5 per seat the difference in the pr percentage of decrease between quantity and value wa not due to any actual advance in price there waa was a general decline in values for commercial coal in moat most of the coal producing regions but in carboa and sweetwater counties where a it large part of the product la Is mined for railroad use by companies affiliated with the transportation Int interests orests the prices were apparently somewhat hagl higher r the quantity of coal tinder undercut cut by machines in tit wyoming in 1911 short tons or 28 9 per cent of the total output against short tons or 19 5 per cent of the total in 1910 Comp intes lea ghose aggregate production amounted to short tonic reported in 1911 that 1527 it jle tona or 28 4 pr p r cent was wag fd ed by hand and that tons or 35 per cent was shot oft off the solid the remainder tons being mined by machines |