Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-01-24
COAL FIGURES FOR 1894.
WHAT WAS DONE IN THE GREAT
INDUSTRY LAST YEAR.
Statistics Show a Production of Nearly
Two Millions of Tons Less of Anthra-
cite Than in 1s93-other Interesting
Figures Concerning the Trade.

Figures Concerning the Trade.
The anthracite coal shipments for
1894, according to the official figures
which have just been made public, were
Al, ,391, ,199 tons, decrease of 1896, 337
tons as compared with 1898. These fig
ures represent the coal sent to market
and not the total amount of coal mined,
which was probably 5000, 900 to 7,OOO,-
900 tons greater. The year was an ex-
tremely unfortunate one and the profits
OF the carrying companies were greatly
reduced as result of the leading ones
trying to squeeze the public at one end
of the line and to starve the miners at
the other. Nearly the whole of the
year was occupied in an attempt to
make common basis on which the trade
could be conducted, but without result
up to this time The tonnage agree
ments made monthly were not kept, and
the supply of coal has been larger than
the market would take at eXorbitant
prices.
1t is known that last year and the
year before were the greatest years of
tonnage in the anthracite trade, and
consumption was also the heaviest. In
1890 the apparent consumption was 4O,-
900, 900, in 1892 it rose to more than AZ
900 and in 1893 to more than AZ, ,O00,-
900.
The following shows the circular prices
of coal in New York harbor in 1884,
Broken. Egg. Stove. Ch'stn't.
April ........ $3.50 $3.50 1915 1915
June. ........ 3.65 1855 400 400
October 80. 800 3.45 3.35 1886
The charges for conveying the coal
from the mines to tidewater vary from
$l.70 to $1.S0 per ton, price that is
many times more than the actual cost of
the service. The amount in tons taken
to market last year by each of the car
rying roads is reported as follows:
heading .................... ..,..,......S .S,20OOW
Lenlgn Nalley....... .......6 .6,22j0,OO0
Delaware Lackawanna and Western. 4, 1000 OOJ
Jersey Central. ........ ......,.........49l 10000
pennsylvania -. ..'.'....... ........4, 4,5OOOW
Delaware and Hudson. .................4,lOO 900
Pennsylvania Coal Company ..........l, 100000
Delaware, Susquehanna and Sch 'ylkill 100000
New York, Lake Erie and Western :. / $50 600
New York, Ontario and Western. 200 600
New York, Susquehanna aud Western. S200O0
The total amount of anthracite coal
mined since 1920, when the Lehigh Coal
and Navigation Company sent the first
shipment of 800 tons to market, is
010,0ss, 1888 tons.
The production of coal, by regions in
1894, and since 1920, has been as follows,
in tons:
1894 Since 1870.
wyoming. ............. .22,6jO, ,16l 422,63l, ,lSO
Lehigh '.'..........,. 6,1O5,f3 Ia, ,4306g9
Schuylkll .12,035,0O5 30, SO, 900
The average value of all anthracite
coal produced in 1891 was $1.79 per ton,
in 1892, $1.92, and in 1898, $1.57.
The number of acres of coal land
owned by the various companies is 213,-
600 and the amount of coal still unmined
is estimated at 1854 900, 900 tons, of
which the Readings lands contain more
than one-half.
The market for anthracite coal is
chiefly east of the Allegheny mountains,
and north of the Potomac, in which ter
ritory about S4 per cent of the produc-
tion is consumed PENNSYLVANIA, New
1Ofh anu Now JeIScy Jake ABOUT 33,UUU-
900 tons annually. The west consumes
about 9,00O,000 tons, and 5000, 900 tons
are consumed at the mines and at other
points.
The annual coal production of the
world is figured at 525, 1925, 1866. The re-
sources of Central Europe is set down
by German authority as follows, the
estimates being given in millards zone
thousand millions of tons): Germany
112 milliards of tons; France Is mil
liards; Austria-Hungary II milliards
Belgium Is milliards; while Great Brit
ain is put at 1913 milliards, or supply
which will last at the present rate of
consumption about 1000 years to come.
The same may also be said of the United
States.
In the Legislature.
One of the most important bills intro
duced in the senate on Monday was by
Mr.. Vaughan, of Lackawanna. 1t pro-