Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-10
GOAL STATISTICS
Of Alabama, Georgia and North Caro- lipa for Last Year, as Com
 piled at Washington.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The division of
 mining statistics of the geological survey has compiled statement of the total coal
 product of Alabama, Georgia and North
 Carolina in 1894. It shows for Alabama
 total product of 4 ,377 ,977 short tons, valued
 at s 962, ,O07, against 8, 1S6, 935 tons in 1893,
 worth s, ,506. 1892, decrease of 75S, ,958 short
 tons, or nearly 15 per cent, and loss in
 value of S1, IA, ,7s5, or something more than
 70 per cent. The average price per ton de-
 clined from 99 cents in 1893 to 91 cents in
 1894. During 1893 the mines gave employ ment to II ,294 men, while in the year just closed 10, 789 men were employed, showing that about 800 men were thrown out of em- ployment by the depression of coal trade in this state alone.
 Georgia fared somewhat better, compar- atively, so far as the total tonnage was concerned, her product in 1894 being 254, Ill short tons, against 2z2, TAO tons in 1893, decrease of only IS, 629 short tons or about 5 per cent. The value, however, shows even a sharper decline than that of Alabama, being $365 ,972 in 1893, and only S299, ,290 in 1894, the average price per ton at the mines falling from 9S cents to 8ab cents, decline of 13b cents per ton.
 Extensive Improvements were shown throughout the year at the mines at Egypt depot, Chatham county, N. C.; and the production was somewhat curtailed in con- sequence. A new mine in Moore county began shipping in 1894. The total product for the state in 1894 was 13, 150 short tons, worth $20 300 at the mines.
 The statistics of production in Alabama were obtained with unusual promptness l through the co- o-operation of Mir. James D. Hillhouse, state mine inspector.
 A. E. Brinckerhof of the Fuel Econo- mizer company of Mattewau, N. Y., has requested the department of the interior to | inform him as to the price of coal gener- ally used in the power plants in the south, and the number of heat units, as northern l men are talking of going south on account | of the cheapness of fuel. He thought the | coal used in the south was of an inferior | quality to that of the north, and wanted to make comparison of the cost of the coal of the heat unit in the various localities. | Governor Sims, assistant secretary of the 1 interior, sent Mir. Brinckerhoff letter stating that there were no statistics com- piled concerning the number of heat units per pound of the different varieties of coal. Governor Sims says, however, that census reports show that analysis of coal obtained l from the Pocahontas Flat Top coal fields of 1 Virginia and West Virginia, as compared l with that of ConnellsvilIe coal of the coun- | ties of Pennsylvania, shows the desirability | of the coal for the manufacture of coke | and other purposes.
 The proportion of the total cost of manu- | facture expended for coal varies with the | character of industry and the form of fin ished product. It appears from the reports made covering the operations of the textile manufacturers during the year 1890, that in e tton goods in the southern states the cost of coal constituted 1.45 per cent and the cost of other fuel Al per cent of the total cost of materials, and in the New Englans states the cost of coal was B. 02 per cent ant of other fuel .C6 per cent of the total cot I
 materials; in wool man ufacture coal form -'' | 1. .38 per cent, and other fuel 45 per C. ni ui ! the tot al cost of man nufacture of tbe sou h. ern states, and coal 2.16 percent and .ti-i | fuel IT per cent in the New England stntcs.