One Hundred Years of Federal Mining Safety and Health Research

Table 1. U.S. Bureau of Mines appropriations and expenditures,
fiscal years ending June 30, 1911-35
Fiscal year Appropriated to U.S. Total expenditures
Bureau of Mines
1911 $502,200.00 $513,581.73
1912 475,500.00 514,900.23
1913 583,100.00 626,862.80
1914 664,000.00 716,629.50
1915 730,500.00 781,740.49
1916 757,300.00 796,952.24
1917 981,060.00 984,871.90
1918 1,467,070.00 4,185,226.88
1919 3,245,285.00 9,442,591.08
1920 1,216,897.00 1,200,104.82
1921 1,362,642.00 2,077,994.83
1922 1,474,300.00 1,664,179.55
1923 1,580,900.00 1,737,855.22
1924 1,784,959.00 2,145,403.57
1925 2,028,268.00 2,214,490.66
1926 1,875,010.00 2,437,839.37
1927 1,914,400.00 2,288,972.10
1928 3,025,150.00 2,730,180.83
1929 2,725,118.00 3,600,393.33
1930 2,274,670.00 2,548,671.45
1931 2,745,060.00 2,939,060.73
1932 2,278,765.00 2,426,022.75
1933 1,860,325.00 1,910,612.04
1934 1,574,300.00 1,481,497.72
1935 1,293,959.07 1,511,047.76
Note that these amounts have not been adjusted for inflation and would be much higher in
current dollars. The budget figures are for the entire U.S. Bureau of Mines and not just for safety
and health research.
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