Report of the Bureau of Mines of the Department of Internal Affairs of ...

234 REPORT OF THE INSPECTORS OF MINES.
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Mining Statistics.
Number of mines in the district,
Number of mines operated during the year,
Number of tons, run of mine, of coal mined,
Number of tons of coal shipped by railroad,
Number of tons of coal shipped by river,
Quantity of coal, in tons, used for steam and heat in and
about the mines,
Sold fo local trade and used by employes,
Number of days worked,
Number of persons employed,
Number of ke^ of powder used
Number of pounds of dynamite used,
Number of steam boilers,
Number of horses and mules
Number of mine locomotives,
Number of coke ovens,
Number of fatal accidents
Number of non-fatal accidents,
Number of tons of coal produced per each fatal accident
Tons of coal produced per each non-fatal accident,
Number of wives made widows by fatal accidents, ....
Number of children made fatherless
Number of persous employed per each fatal accident, .
Number of persons employed per each non-fatal accident
76
68
6,450,200
2,488,409
3,901,592
39,668-
23,152
10,294
10,665
19,308
897
164
691
5
6
22
89
293,600
72,575
12
30
484
119
Table Showing the causes of Fatal and Non-Fatal Accidents During
By falls of slate,
By fall of coal and slate,
By fall
of roof coal,
By fall of coal,
By cars,
By being run over by dilly trips.
By dilly trips,
By mining machines,
By fall of "black-jack,"
By premature blast
Miscellaneous,
the Year 1897.
Fatal.
Non-fatal.
39
4
3
19
2
I
1
18
Total, 22 89