| Show I I COAL GOAL BEDS IN JAPAN English Product Being Driven Out of China and EAST INDIES F Fears s at-s of or Japanese commercial supremacy In C macy inacy In the tar far ar east easi have hay received 11 a acreal great creal Impetus In In the r recent discovery fr of or Ih the fact thai Japanese coal is expelling English coal from China the East In Indies Indies In- In dies and India anti anil competing with Australian Au AU- str lIlan coal throughout the Pacific A great many of or the fears pd for tor the time tt future ture of far e eastern trade may be he fanciful fan fan- but this is one that thai I Is at nt the present pres R- R nt ent tiny day real a Commercial supremacy depends de de- de- de to a large Jarge extent nt k on the control of Ih the coal oal supply of a Country Manchuria and China have immense coal beds hedi and a 1 recent in the Tour du do Monde of or Paris shows not nol only that Japan herself eJ I is rich In coal but hut that hf her r infant coal trade Js I Is already ally beginning begin begIn- ning alog to Justify the fears expressed by hy a n lan largo large part of lh th commercial world B ill tome for I 0 II the total aJ a amount nt of or coal mined d dIn In Japan 11 Id between and anti 1000 j. 00 OI tons lona a year ear But suddenly vigorous development de was wag J. J Jet given et Ihl this Industry and anti the coat coal mines s followed the the- Immense e strides stride made b by Japanese trade and commerce In general The moines mines were fitted filled out with new machinery ma ma- chinery connections wen made with the railroads and In 1 2 the total amount of or cool coal mined W wa trOt ton tons tomi At first St jI per cent then Ihen Cw j 5 per Iler font Cent of or this total was wal consumed hi iii the horn home country and the th mast lesl exported and the same proportIon proportion tion is true 1111 for pr today lri i e Out Omit Coal In 1 1557 7 Japan exported coal to the value of or J. J In III lW U- Uthe the exportation was 34 l GOO und arid in 1 1 12 2 Japanese se coal hind had supplanted English coal In most mORt eastern markets market from the time north of China to Singapore Sing Sing- allOre although England had previously pre been en the thc only country which furnished coal conI to this section Al At At Kong Hong where lX J ions tous are consumed 11 annually only Australian co coal I and that think from rein Tonkin Tonkin Ton ron kin can call compete with the Japanese article artl- artl cle and arid the time same lIno Is he true Irue for tor Japanese coal cos costs COlts Is only 35 a atOil aton ton tOil a as aa compared with J- J for fOl En English lish Toward the east Tul lH coal oal gu goes asfur ns os far fur as San Sami Francisco competing Australian coal In lii iSu me toe Japanese took advantage of or the thie great r at mining strike in Sn England to 10 strengthen themselves In irm India where Japanese t. t coal coni costs COSI half hair as aK much as English coal anti and since that think time time till Japanese coal trade has ron Ion Increased a Id Time The exportation of or coal In lo 7 1 was i r l NJ In Iii 1 1 In III 1 1501 1 the time amount XiO jO J was waR small because be be- because cause of time tilt war Thin Tho Japanese now have control of the thc markets In the thu Phil Phil- Hawaii lawall Indo China Colea Comen Co- Co men lea lea Siberia anti and pOI lions of ot the western roast coast o of ot America Prices II Higher i in iii Japan The Time price of or Japan Japanese se coal CO however lias las Increased of late III In 1 it was WilS possible pos po sible to obtain good coal at S J- J Ja a ton toil but mit since Once that think time time hub has gone au ay nigh high as 39 5 35 The lIme Islands In which the Japanese coal coat coalfields fields lr are found art are t Kyushu the most southern of or Japan with twelve coal Holds s Nippon time the central Island and the thie largest argest of or all all with five beds an und and Yew the most northern with four c at cen- cen In the thc Kyushu mines the coal oal in is isery very ery tat fat and has hag great heating power the he b best brt t known coal coming from Crom the hike mine lOin This mine amine has hns a capacity 01 om CIO tons tong a month and Is la situated In th time the vest t of time the Island There Tiler are Ul also alga taunt found on thin lIH Island of or Kyushu mines of but not nol In larse l' quantities ThUs This island however cr three fourth of or th the coal oal and anol consequently the the coal coal eoal po pot us ts art are the lie 10 most t Important In Japan The Th n five mining districts of the tte Island of 01 Nippon all cl the thi the Island I nd of ezo only bituminous limit hut o ot of a very hard Valet va variety varlet va- va let |
