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Show WiCOAL American Miners Pro-I Pro-I duce More Coal Than the Foreigners Washington, Oct. 3. From figures on the wot Id's coal supply In a recent re-cent British publication, the bureau of manufactures of the department "r commerce and labor has compllexl statistics showlnc that the I'uited States, with U'jO.VJS person cmpIoveJ In mining coal in lHus, produced 12".,-C2.0ihi 12".,-C2.0ihi tons of coal more than vwre produced by !;i;.2i' persons similarly employed In the I'niicd Kiugdo:n and that the production of coal In the United States amounted lo 5"s ton per person employed as agulns: 271 ton produced per pet son In the I'liHed Kingdom. Based upon reports of I'ios and IW til" total production of coal in the Vnited Kingdom, the 1'niiod State., j Russia. Sweden, Oeimany. Ilelsium. j France. Spain. Austria, Hungary and . Japan for lPO'i was estimated at ?"s.- 674,'iiMi tons with a total value at the i pit of ;i.s:,4.?2o.S9.:. and an average value per ton of $l.f:;. Tlie number of persons employed In producing the coal was 172. 110 and the average number of tons per person. 2:M produced, pro-duced, j In regard to the coal consumption j of the s-veral countries, the report i says: I "The consumption of coal In the l"n ited Stairs Is more than twice as great as that in nny other country ani nearly equals the combined consump- i tion of the United Kingdo m. Germany, France and Belgium and is actually ' greater per capiia than in the United ' Kingdom." |