The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-14


The PrUsstan ,Sfaats-AnzciqoP has the fol
lowing interesting exhibit of the production
of coal in Prussia and Great Britain:--
According to the reports of the inspectors
Of mines in Great Britain, there we're, in
1867, 3195 coal mines and 1893, 116 miners,
producing about 100, ,07S, 900 tons @, 1873, 1885,
600 centners-20'3 centners equal one tom,
while in 1868 the production had decreased to
about 104, 500, 900 tons (2,12l, ,000,O0 cent
ners), and the number of workmen,
however, had risen to 3i6S20, and
the number of mines to 1921. Prussia
produced 42O, 571, 11G centners of coal in 1867,
with 426 working mines and 102, 773 miners,
and in 1868 the same number of mines, with
,34S workmen. delivered 45i, 1866
centners of coal The coal production of
Great Britain in 1867, therefore, exceeded that
of Prussia five-fold; in 1868, however,
the excess in favor of England was
only 4'G fold. Fourteen years previously, in
1854, the coal production of Great Britain,
which was about G47 661, 900 tons G,312, ,61S,-
800 centners), exceeded that of Prussia,
which amounted to 1876, ,225,096 centners,
nearly ten-fold. Taking into account now
the acquisition of territory by Prussia in
this period, deductiug the production of the
lands annexed in 1866, amounting to $751;
$40 centners from the total Prussian produc-
ton as above given, there remain 446, 604, $40
centners as the production of the old Prussian
provinces, or about the 4-7th part of the
amount produced by Great Britain. While
the coal production Of Great Britain has in
creased within this period of fourteen years
forty millions OF tons (S12, 1000, 900 of cent
ners), or 62 per cent, the production of the
older Prusslan pro, inces has been increased
310,379, 72i centncrs, or 227'S per cent.
'"The average production of coal to each
mine in Great Britain was, in 1868, about
664, 900 centners, or GIG centners to each
miner; in 1867 the proportion was 6G7, 900
centners to each mine, and 639S centners to
each miner. In Prussia the average produc-
ton of each mine. in 1868, was 1,067, 900
centners, OF 1913 centners to each miner; and
in 1867, 9S7, 200 contners to each NINE and
1892 centners to eaoh miner According to
this the average production of coal by the
British miner is 1913 centners, or IS per cent.
higher than that of the Prussian miner the
reason for this may be looked for in the more
favorable positions Of English mines, their
extent md the use OF improved machinery in
them. Besides, the pay of the English miner
is much higher tn that of his Prussian
brother.
1.-The number of accidents, in 1867, in the
mines Of Great Britain resulting in the loss
of life was 9O7, by which 1890 persons, or
3'57 per thousand miners, were killed. In
the mines of Prussia, in the same year, there
were 2GO accidents causing fatal results, by
which 293 men, or : 81 per thousand miners,
lost their lives. According to this there is in
Great Britain one case of accidental death to
every 2S0 miners employed and 1,792, 400
centners of coal produced; and in Prussia one
death falls among every 352 workmen and
1,44O 157 centners Of coal. A comparison of
the killed in relation to the total number of
miners employed is, therefore, in favor of
Prussia; while in regard to the amount of
coal produced, the advantage is on the side
of Great Britain. In the district of Clausthal
one death occurs to every 1889, S52 centners
of coal produced; in the district of Breslau to
every !, ,729, ,17S centners; and in the districts
of Dortmund and Bonn / ,4l7, SG3 and 1,13l,-
253 centners respectively. The number of
miners killed in the year 1867 in the two
countries is apportioned to the various kinds
of accidents as follows:-
Killed. FINLAND Prussiq.
Through explosion
of fire-damp. .2ss, or 24'05 p. &c. or 13 D. C.
Incaving Of earth449 81 73 p 106, or SO D. c.
Other causes in un-
dergrOund labor 2l1, or 1913 p. "a, or25 D. C.
Above ground. &c. So, or T40 PFC 9, or 307 D. C.
In the shafts 1885, or 1911 C. IS, or 221S p. C.
1870, or 100 D. c. 203 or 100 d. c,