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Show MANY LARGE COAL M1N ES f There are 736 coal minee in the United Statee which are producing produc-ing iocetlU W,()0O ahiwrt tone tieian of the United Staiee' Geo-logical' Geo-logical' Survey, 269 bituminouft mines and 168 a anthracite mines in Pennsylvania produced in excess, ex-cess, of this amount. The average aver-age production of these Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania bituminous mines was 444," 697 tons. The largest anthracite mine had a production of 1,020, 420 long tons (1,142,870 short ton). The largtst bituminous production from one mine (a Pennsylvania Pen-nsylvania operation) was 1,285, 483 short tons. Thirty anthracite anthra-cite mines produced over half a million tons each. Illinois was second to Pennsylvania in large mines, having 93 mines which produced, more than 200,000 tons ; West Virginia was third, with 59; and- Ohio fourth, with, 3& The total production of tliese 735 first-class mines, was 253,459, 639 tons, or51t7per cent of the total production of the, country. |