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COAL IN PENNSYLVANIA, WEST VIRGINIA,
ILLINOIS, OHIO, ALABAMA, KENTUCKY,
NEW MEXICO, OKLAHOMA AND ARKAN­
SAS, DURING 1910.
Pennsylvania's coal production in 1910 was
235,006,762 short tons, valued at $313,301,812. Of
this 84,485,236 short tons was anthracite, valued
at $100,275,302, and 150,521,526 short tons was bituminous
coal, valued at $153,029,510, at cording
to E. W. Parker, statistician of the U. S. Geological
Survey.
Compared with 1909. when the total production
of the state amounted to 219.037.150 short tons,
valued at $279,266,824, the production in 1910
shows an increase of 15,969,612 short tons, or 7
per cent., in quantity, and of $34,037,988, or 12.2
per cent., in value. Of tbe total increase 3,314.-
877 short tons was in tlie iiroduction of anthracite
and 12,554.735 short tons in the production
of bituminous coal. The value of the anthracite
production showed an increase of $11,093,713, or
7.4 per cent., and that of bituminous coal increased
$22,944,273, or 17.64 per cent. Although the
quantity of bituminous coal produced exceeded
that of anthracite by nearly SO per cent., the value
of the anthracite product was larger than that of
the bituminous output by nearly $7,250,000. Bituminous
coal represented 63.6 per cent, of the
total output and anthracite represented 51 per
cent, of the total value.
The anthracite mines of Pennsylvania gave employment
to 169,497 men, who worked an average
of 229 days. The bituminous mines employed
175,403 men for an average of 238 days. The
average production for each man employed in the
anthracite region was 498 short tons during the
year. In the bituminous mines
THE MEN AVERAGED
825 tons each. The daily average production for
each employe in the anthracite region was 2.17
short tons and in the bituminous districts it was
3.61 tons.
According to the Pennsylvania Department of
Mines 601 men were killed and 1,050 were injured
in the anthracite mines in 1910. The fatal accidents
in the bituminous mines numbered 539 and
the non-fatal accidents numbered 1.142.
In the combined production of anthracite and
bituminous coal Pennsylvania outranks any of the
coal producing countries of the world except Great
Britain and Germany, and in 1910 it came within
10,000.000 short tons, or less than 5 per cent., of
equaling tbe output of Germany, and was nearly
20 per cent, of the total coal production of the
world.
West Virginia held second rank among the great
coal producing states in 1910, being exceeded in
output by Pennsylvania only. The total produc­
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tion for West Virginia in 1910 was 61,671,019
short tons.
The production of West Virginia increased from
51.849.220 short tons in 1909 to 61,671,019 tons in
1910, a gain of 9,821,799 tons, or IS.9 per cent.
The value of the West Virginia production increased
from $44,661,716 in 1909 to $56,665,061, a
gain of $12,003,345, or 26.88 per cent.
In spite of the fact, however, that the output
of West Virginia exceeded that of Illinois by 15,-
772,173 tons, and of the further fact that West
Virginia's gain in value was considerably more
in proportion than the gain in tcnnage, the total
value of the West Virginia product exceeded tbat
of Illinois by only $4,261,434.
The high quality coal of West Virginia is the
lowest-prired coal in the United States. If the
small mines are left out of consideration there
were only three counties in the state in which the
average price in 1910
EXCEEDED $1 PER TON,
and the aggregate output of these three counties
was only a little over 1,000,000 tons—less than 2 per
cent, of the total production. The general average
for the state was 92 cents. In 1909 it was
86 cents.
The total production of coal in Illinois in 1910,
amounts to 45,900,246 short tons, as against 50,-
904.990 short tons in 1909.
With the mines in most of the coal producing
counties shut down for practically six months of
tbe year, a decrease of from 20 to 30 per cent, in
production might have been expected, but as a
matter of fact the decrease was surprisingly small.
Mining conditions in the state during 1910 showed
a curious combination of periods of almost complete
idleness and intense activity, the latter condition
accounting for the comparatively slight decrease
in output as compared with 1909. In 1909
when the industry was practically free from labor
troubles the production in Illinois amounted to
50,904,990 short tons, whereas in 1910, with six
months of idleness at the majority of the mines,
tbe iiroduction amounted to nearly 46,000,000, less
than 10 per cent, decrease.
In 1910 out of a total of 72,645 men, 67,218 were
idle for an average of 136 days and the total time
lost was equivalent to 9,133,953 working days.
The total time made by the 72,645 men employed
was 11.612,966 days, or an average of 160 days
each. The idle time in 1910 was nearly 80 per
cent, of the working time made.
The state bureau of labor statistics, Mr. David
Ross, secretary, reports that in the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1910. there were 390 fatal and 737
non-fatal accidents in the coal mines of Illinois.
In 1909 there were 213 fatal and 896 non-fatal
accidents.
Ohio's total production of coal in 1910 was 34,-