Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-09-24 | Page 10 | Great Hard Coal States in the East

oo- GREAT HARD COAL STATES IN THE EAST From 1814. the date of the earlier record of coal production in this countrj-, to 1311, Inclusive, according to a chart just issued bv the United States geological survov. Pennsvl-vnnla Pennsvl-vnnla has furnished 2.27079S 7S7 short tons of anthracito coal and 2,390,421,-2G0 2,390,421,-2G0 short-tons of bituminous coal, a total of 4.Cf7,22'),on7 shor nns The greatest output of anthracite coal from this stale was in IfilO, when 90.1G4.067 short tons were mined; the record production of bituminous coal was In 1010, when the yield was 150.-521,520 150.-521,520 short tons. Illinois ranks I second in the production of coal during dur-ing the period from 1S1I to 1011 with S4 4.012.n5U short tons or bituminous coal; West Virginia third, with 049,-44S.201 049,-44S.201 short tons; and Ohio fourth with 011.949,292 short tons. None of th0 other slates has produc-ed as much as 500,000,000 short tons during tho period. These Tour states have therefore produced during the ninety eight-year period 0,772,699,843 short tons of coal, or more than three-fourths three-fourths of the total output of the United States.