The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-01-19


in 1891 ranging from 81 As in Missouri to
1891 in Montana TIE difference in the
price being caused in the distance to good
coking coal fields being necessary to over
come.
Alabama shows y wonderful progress
during the last three years, having doub-
led the number of ovens and increased
production $50 per cent. Colorado still
holds The position Of tie most important
coke producing State, outside Of those
which draw their supplies from the coal
beds of the Appalachian field. There is
little change in thestatus of coke making
in Georgia, except a slight increase in
production, there now being 300 ovens in
| the State, the same number that has been
| there since 1884. Coke making in Illi-
nos has almost been abandoned, there be-
| ing now but one establishment in the
State with Is ovens, and no ovens in the
course Of constructions. Indiana has al
so gone backward in the coke business,
her number Of establishments being two,
| with 81 ovens. The Usage Goa. e. Mining
Company has the only coke works in the
Indian Territory, it having so ovens.
Kansas has never been able to get be-
yond making coke for domestic purposes
while Kentucky has made rapid strides i'll
establishments, with rs ovens and an
output 33,777 tons. Missouri has three
small establishments with total Of 10
ovens and ali output of G,s72 short tons.
Montana, on accout Of the recent discov-
cry of number Of deposits of coal well
adapted to cokc-makiug has two cstab-
lishments with total Of 40 ovens and
the outlook for coke making in that State
is good. New Mcxco's single establish
ment put out $500 tons last year. Ohio's
production shows q marked falling off,
caused by the suspension Of the ovens at
North Bend, O.. Washington has two
small establishments, capacity 5000 tons
per year. The coke business in West
Virginia has been on the increase, having
now So establishments with--4,060
ovens and an output of S23,677
short tons of coke in 1880, an increase
over 1889 of 200, 900 tons. Wyoming JUS
| titles the continuance of the single coke
establishment of that Territory, but there
has been no great advancement made in
any direction there.
the percentage yield of coal in the manu-
facture of coke varied but little, either as
| related to comparison of States Or years,
the lowest percentage was 81 in Utah in
1891 and the highest is IS in Pennsylvania
in 1883, but the average percentage in
the States ranges from I'll in 1884 to &c in
1889. Wisconsin, whose coke is made
from Pennsylvania coal, shows an average
of IS, being next to Pennsylvania; Georgia
shows the remarkable average Of 62, and
Alabama comes up with 60.
The value per ton of the coal used in
the manufacture Of coke in 1886 was 10
cents, and that value increased in 1891 to
| 76.5 cents. AT the same time the selling
price of coke increased from 81. 60 to 81 81
and the amount of coal used in TON OF
locke increased from SO tons to 1853 tons.
making the average value Of coal per ton
Of coke $l.O9 in 1889 and $l.2l in 1892
Notwithstanding the fact the coke in
dustry has grown to immense proportion
in this couatry during the past few years,
there has been q stiff enough demand to
warrant the importing of large amounts Of
that commodity, and the figures presented,
showing the coke imported and entered
for consumption in the United staaes,
from lS6ato 1891 inclusive, should he an
i incentive to coke producers 10 even make
3 greater strides along this line, and not
only endeayor TO supply the immense dess
mand, hut strive to make TINT demand
even greater for this fast becoming very
popular fuel.
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