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Show Utah's Coal Production npHH production of coal in Utah In J 1911, according to figures just made public by the United States geological survey, was 2,513,175 short tons, having a spot value of $4,248 666. This production was about the same as in 1910, the difference being les3 than 6,000 tons. The value increased $24,110, or a little more than 0.5 per cent. That the production did not show a larger decrease and that the value showed any increase at all was due to developments 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 other counties showed decreased production in 1911, and Carbon county, by far the most important im-portant producer, showed also a slight decline in price. Summit and Uintah counties had decreased tonnages but higher prices. In addition to beiag the most important coal-producing county of the state, Carbon county 13 the only one in which coke is made. In 1911 a total of 381,696 tons of coal, an increase of 113,891 tons over 1910, was made into coke in Carbon county. Returns from mining companies representing rep-resenting over 90 per cent of the total to-tal coal production of the state show that althougn less than 3 per cent of the output in 1911 was mined by machines, ma-chines, the practice of shooting from the solid has not obtained a strong foothold in Utah Out of 2,265,979 short tons for which the methods of mining were reported, 1,993,514 short tons was undercut or sheared by hand and 70,653 tons mined 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 the small proportion of coal undercut by machines, the average aver-age tonnage won by the miners Is considerably above the average bituminous bitu-minous production per man for the United States Labor troubles are not of frequent occurrence in the coal mines of Utah, and in this respect 1911 was consistent consist-ent with the rule. Only one suspension suspen-sion of work because of dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion with conditions was reported. The miners affected were idle but three days. The mines are practically practi-cally all worked eight hours a day. The men employed in the coal mines of Utah in 1911 numbered 3,060, Who worked an average of 236 days. The average production for each man employed was 821.3 tons in 1911. The Ninth United States census recorded re-corded the first production of coal in Utah an output of 5,800 tons. Ten years later tho production amounted to less than 15,000 tons. It assumed come importance in 1882, when the production amounted to 100,000 tons, and it reached the million-ton mark in 1900. In 1909 it exceeded 2,000,000. |