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THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 26
THE COAL INDUSTRY OF OHIO FOR THE YEAR 1913'
The coal industry in the state for the year 1913.
was from most standpoints, a prosperous one,
not only in regard to the number of tons of coal
produced, but also in time worked, and wages
accruing to the miners from a year free for the
most part, from prolonged cessations of labor, and
from any serious strikes or labor disagreements.
There was practically no new development of
coal operations in the state for the year, although
several new mines were opened up, none
of which promise to be operated on a very large
scale; one new mine located in Belmont county,
0., was opened up during the year, the Webb,
owned and operated by the Cambria Mining Co.,
Toledo, O., which promises to be one of the
largest and best equipped mines of the state;
the tipple is constructed of steel, and the shaft
concreted; good and sufficient supports are being
left; no rooms have been driven nearer than
1,000 feet from the bottom of the shaft, 16 entries
being driven with no rooms turned off them
as yet; all permanent buildings in connection
with the operation of this mine are built of noncombustible
material, and every precaution seems
to have been taken with the object in view of
protecting not only the lives of the person employed
in same, but for the future life of the
mine iiroperty as well. A number of mines remained
suspended during the year and several
were entirely worked out and abandoned.
The total production of coal for the year
amounted to 36,285,468 tons, an increase of
1,841,177 tons, or 5.3 per cent. The
INCREASE IN TONNAGE
of the year 1913 over the year 1912, was not in
proportion to the increase of the year 1912 ever
the year 1911, when the increase amounted to
4,102,252 tons. However, the tonnage for the
year 1913, would have been much greater had
not the flood during the month of March severely
handicapped the trade by tying up transportation
over a wide area for over a month; the
weather during the fore part of the year also
was exceedingly mild, as well as the late fall
months, which affected the domestic trade greatly.
The depression in the iron and steel ousiness
and retrenchments in transportation, and
in some other industries have also tended to
reduce the coal production for the year, although
it represents the greatest tonnage ever recorded
for the state.
The pick method of mining c-oal is fast becoming
obsolete and has almost ceased to be a
•Advance Statement prepared by the Industrial Commission
of Ohio.
factor in the production of coal, only 3,691,923
tons being mined by this method during the year,
or 2.1 per cent, loss in tonnage as compared with
the pick tonnage of the year 1912. The pick tonnage
for the year represented 10.2 per cent, of
the entire tonnage of the state.
The total number of tons of coal mined by the
use of machinery was 32,593,545 tons, or a gain
of 6.3 per cent, over the machine tonnage of the
previous year, or 89.8 of the entire production
of the state. The machine tonnage of the state
for the year increased almost two million tons.
The greatest gains were made in the following
counties: Belmont produced 10,454,795 tons
of coal, or
AN INCREASE
of 1,137,945 tons; Jefferson county, 5,095,024 tons,
an increase of 453,116 tons; Athens county, 5,239,-
631 tons, a gain of 353,155 tons; Noble county,
784,555 tons, a gain of 142,878 tons; Lawrence
county, 195,389 tons, a gain of 107,285 tons; and
Morgan county, 281,445 tons, a gain of 84,823
tons.
The total losses amounted to 803,932 tons, the
greatest being reported from Hocking county,
where it amounted to 459,013 tons; the total
tonnage of this county was 1,537,163 tons. Jackson
county reported 596,497 tons, a loss of 136,337
tons; Muskingum county reported 495,595 tons, a
loss of 26,603 tons; Mahoning county reported
27,457 tons, a loss of 20,054 tons.
The combined output of the Hocking Valley
district amounted to 9,044,610 tons, a loss of
52,171 tons; the total output of the Eastern Ohio
district showed a total tonnage of 16,302,419 tons,
the immense gain of 1,592,830 tons.
The total number of persons employed for the
year was 48,420 as compared with 47,234 persons
for the year 1912, a gain of 1,186 persons. The
pick miners numbered 5,423 persons, a loss of
456; the inside clay men employed in the pick
mines was 1,137, and the outside day men, 743
persons.
In the machine mines the drillers, loaders and
shooters numbered 25,873 persons, a gain of 689
persons; the machine runners and helpers numbered
3,750, a gain of 280. The
NUMBER Ol DAY MEN
employed in the machine mines was 7,295 and
the outside day men 4,199 men.
The average time worked in the pick mines
of the state for the year was 186 days, as compared
with 173 days for the year 1919. The average
time worked in machine mines was 204 days
as compared with 198 days for the year 1912.