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Show -' A '- J ' i . j .... n 060, who worhed an average of 236 days, The average 'production foi eueh man employed was 821 8 tons iu 1911. The ninth United States census recorded the firfit production of coal in Utah an output of 5,800 tons. Ten years later the production amounted to less than 15,000 tons. It assumed some importance in 1S82, when the production amounted to 100,000 tous, and it reached million -ton mark in 1900. In 109 it exceeeded two million mil-lion tons. 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 tous 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 52 09 in 1911. All the other counties Bhowed decreased production in 1911, and Cai bon county, coun-ty, by far the most important producer, pro-ducer, showed also a slight decline iu price. Summit and LTinta counties had decreased tonnages but higher priceB. Iu addition to being the most important coal - produciug country of the state, Carbon county is the only one ia which coke is made. In 1911 a total of 381,696 tons of coal, an increase of 113.891 Sons over 1910, was made into coke in Carbon county. Rt-turns from miuing companies representing over 90 per cent of the total coal production of the state show that although less than 3 per cent o the output in 1911 was mined by machines, the practice of shooting from the solid has not obtained a strong foothold in Utah. Out of 2,-256,979 2,-256,979 short tons for which the me- Utah Maintains Coal Output . The produc ioi of coal iu Utah in 3911, according to figures compiled by E. W.Parker, just made public by the Uuited States geological survey sur-vey was 2.513,175 short tons, having a spot value of $4, 248,666. This production was about the :-ame as in 1910, the difference- being leBS than 5,000 ous. The value in creased 524,110.' or a little more than mods ot mining were reporten, i,aaci-674 i,aaci-674 short tons was undercut or shear-;ed shear-;ed by hand and 70,653 tons mined by machines. The quantity shot off the solid was 192,752 Bhort. tons, or about 7 7 of the total outpi.it of the state. In spite of the small proportion propor-tion of coal undercut, by machines, the average tonnage won by the miners mi-ners is considerable above the average bituminous production per man for the Unitod States. Labor troubles are not of frequent occurrence in the coal mines of Utah, and ia this respect 1911 was consistent consis-tent with the rule. Only one suspension suspen-sion of work because of dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion of conditions was reported. The miner affected were idle but three days. The mines are practically all worked eight hours a day. The men employed iu the coal mines in Utah in 1911 numbered 3,- |