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Show PRODUCTION OF COAL SHOWS BIG INCREASE The production of coal in Utah in 1911 according to figures compiled by E. W. Parker, just made public by the United States Geological Survey was 2,513,175 short tons, having a spot value val-ue of $4,248,666. The production was about the same as in 1910. the difference being less than 5,000 tons. The value increased $24,110 or a little more than 0.5 per cent. That the production did not show larger decrease and that value showed any increase at all was due to developments develop-ments in Emery county, which nearly trebled its production of 1910, 40,657 tons, the output in 1911 being 120,000 tons. The average price for the Emery County product advanced from $1.98 a ton in 1910 to $2.09 in 1911. All the other counties showed decreased products produc-ts on in 1911, and Carbon County, by far the most important producer, showed also a slight decline in price. Summit and Uinta counties had decreased tonnages ton-nages but higher prices. In addition ti being the most important coal-producing couty of the State, Carbon County is the only one in which coke is made. In 1911 a total of 113,891 tons over 1910, was made into coke in Car bon County. Returns from mining companies representing rep-resenting over 90 per cent of the total coal proiu ction of the State show that although less than 3 percent of the output out-put in 1911 was mined by machines the practice of shooting from the solid har ot obtained a strong foothold in Utah. ut of 2,256,979 short tons for which the methods of mining were reported, I 1,993,574 short tons was sheared by hand and 70,653 tons miried by machines. The quantity shot off the solid was 192,752 short tons, or about 7.7 per cent of the total output of the State. In spite of tha am ill prjpjrtion of coal undercut by machines, the average tonnage ton-nage by the miners is considerable above the average bituminous production product-ion per man for the United States. Labor trouble are not of frequent occurrence oc-currence in the mines of Utah, and in this respect 1911 was consistent with the rule. Only one of case suspension work because of dissatisfection with conditions was reported. The miners affected were idle bat three days. The mines are practically all worked eight hours a day. I The men employed in the coal mines of Utah in 1911 numbered 3,080 who worked an average of 236 days. The average production for each man employed em-ployed was 821.3 in 1911. The Ninth United States Census recorded re-corded the first production of coal in Utah with un output of 5,00 tons. Ten years later the production amounted to less than 15,000 tons. It assumed some importance in 1882, when the production produc-tion amounted to 100,000 tons, and it reached the million-ton mark in 1900. In 1909 it exceeded 2,000,000 tons. The following figures show the growth of the industry. Production of coal in Utah, in short tons: 1882 100,000 1890 318,150 1900 1,147,027 1905 1,332.327 1906 1,772,551 1907 1,947,607 1908.... 1,848,792 1909 : .2,260,899 1910 2.517,809 1911 2,513,175 |