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One-half million tons of bituminous coal are
mined in Pennsylvania every working day, and
1,000,000 are mined each week in the two counties
of Westmoreland ancl Fayette.
Other mineral products given are coke, portland
and natural cement, clay products, iron ore
(of which Pennsylvania produced in 1910 over
700,000 gross tons), petroleum and natural gas,
stone, slate ancl lime.
A copy of this report can be obtained by those
interested by addressing Richard R. Hice, stategeologist,
Beaver, Pa.
• PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS W
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN.
Trustee C. A. Showacre of Moundsville, W. Va.,
Pennsylvania in four years produced more than
has sold the property of the Panama Coal Co.,
its nearest competitor in 80 years. Only Ohio
consisting of 77 acres of land, tippie, machinery
ancl West Virginia have yielded a greater tonnage
and tracks, south of Moundsville, to the Wheeling
in all these years than Pennsylvania alone pro­
Coal & Coke Co. The sale yvas conducted by the
duced last year. Ohio produced some coal prior
trustee and the price was $12,000.
to 183S, but not until that year were the figures
sufficient for the field to be classed separately. In The Chicago Coal Dealers' association has
1S3S the state tinned out 119,952 tons. In 1858
the 1,000,000-ton mark was crossed. Two years
prior to that Pennsylvania had entered the 10,000,changed
its name to the Chicago Coal Merchants'
association. The board of directors has been increased
to 15 members instead of 10, and a num­
000-ton list, but Ohio was the first other state to
reach 1,000,000 tons a year. In 1912 Buckeye
state mines yielded 34,528,000 tons, bringing the
ber of new members have been taken into the organization.
total production of the state in 70 years to 646,- The Harlan Coal Mining Co., of Louisville, Ky.,
478,049 tons; but in 1912 alone Pennsylvania pro­ has awarded a contract to the Roberts & Schaefer
duced 246,200,000 tons.
Co., Chicago, for a new mine plant at Coxton, Ky.
Contract price, $25,000.
The years 1912 and 1913 have established a new
record in coal production in the United States. In The Blair Run Coal Co. has sold to E. B. Hen­
the year 1912. there were 534.466.5SO short tons of derson of Brookville. Pa., and T. M. Kurtz of Punx-
eoal produced, notwithstanding the fact thot dursutayvney, Pa., 850 acres of coal near Coalport, Pa.,
ing the period of negotiations in 1912 production
was discontinued completely in the anthracite from
for $60,000.
April 1 until tbe latter part of May, and in tlie The stockholders of the Sunnyside Coal Co.,
bituminous fields, except in the Southwestern and Johnstown, Pa., have elected these directors:
Intermountain districts, all of the month of April, Howard E. Miller. George W. Reese, William J.
and in some districts, pending final negotiations, Watkins, Samuel Maxwell and Charles S. Ling.
until some time in May. It is estimated that the
tonnage for 1913 will approximate 575,000,000 short
tons, or an increase over 1912 of nearly 40,000,000
tons.
During* the year 1913 the exports of coal from
Baltimore were 970,751 tons, valued at $2,337,337.
The 1912 exports were 628,522 tons, valued at $1,-
057,933.
The port authorities at Marseille. France, have
reserved 241,114 square feet of the sea yvall of the
National and Pinede basins for tbe handling of
coal imports. This space is divided into 24
berths, which are rented to the leading importers
and the subsidized mail steamers. The cargo is
discharged by means of floating or electric cranes.
Consignments of coal to Marseille rarely exceed
5,000 or 6.001) tons, oyving to lack of necessary facilities
for handling large cargoes with rapidity.
The new Madrague basin, which yvill not be com­
pleted before 1916, yvill contain quays 8,478 feet
long. It is not known, however, whether any of
this space will be reserved for handling foreign
eoal.
The continued recurrence of coal mine disasters
calls for renewed and more earnest efforts to prevent
them. Both the miner and the mine owner
must make this effort. Each must co-operate yvith
tbe other in trying to prevent these disasters by
seeing that every known precaution is followed,
that no unnecessary risks are taken, and that
every state law and every mine rule for safety
is strictly obeyed by every man working in or
about a mine.
The Springfield Coal Co., Springfield, Mo„ has
been placed in receivership and Francis S. Peabody
has been named as receiver by the courts.
The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co. has declared
its regular quarterly dividend of 2 per cent., payable
Feb. 28 to stockholders of record Jan. 31.
Howard A. Steinly was appointed receiver for
the Barnard Coal Co., by the court at Clarksburg,
XV. Va.. recently