The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-10-22
COAL TRADE OF SEATTLE.
.vsoRT UNDER AUSPICES OF DE.
rARTMEsT OF THE INTERIOR.
esstssflrs Compiled by Lovett n.
wood, of This Cffy-Increase I'm
recefpts Last Year Amounted to
II Per Cent, Exports 81 Per Cent.

.sa department. % the interior has just
.-,.ss repert CO The Production of Coal
!. ~ 81 EAwar. Wheeler Parker. The
,xaort consists CO extracts from the nine
.~s,th anaual report Of me United States
.seogicaI survey CT 1918
ne report regarding the coal trade 90
ssa,t,e IA prepared ny LoEett NJ. Wood.
go * AZ follows. Seattle receives more.
rsss mare and Gjs fibutss more coal than
.-y e.ner cify IL Washington. BESIDES the
.-sduct Of ,ne mines ~ King county-Gti-
~. Newcastle. Franklin. Lawton, Ren-
a.. Ceaa. Mountain, Black Diamond. Daa-
,sns ard small mines al one or two other
...sss Sea 10 handles much eoai from
sasr mines IN the state. ami the Carbon
Nh mine in Pierce county has built bunk
~. IN Seattle. The Pacific Coast Company
s.icn il the successor OF the Oregon I'm
efoyemgat Company, has improved the
h<iisiies 0f !ts own bunkers. ard has made
Ia tracks standard instead OF narrow
szgge, thus vastly increasing its means OF
oskkly handling the product OF the mines.
.As vii be seen from the table. the re-
esgpis Of coal from the King county mines
sar 1881 were 4s3.472 tons. against as. 100
teas In 1870. an increase for the year OF
j NJ tons. or over II per cent. To these
rsesipts should be added the $40 tons
estves from mines outside the county,
xbich brings the total receipts OF coal at
Seattle 10 1852 tons. This, at the rate Of
\ tor, amounts 10 sl44li4s
During the same period the exports OF
scai amounted 20 rs 40 tons. sgains, l94.-
z. tons the previous year, an Increase OF
b. W tons. or about So per cent This left
Tz9e tons for local consumption which.
sas used by the manufacturers and fam
ges 81 the city and by the feet OF steam
shif& steamers and tugs mat sail from
ssattie 10 all parts az Puget sound the
sess, and many foreign ports. The sig
Haeance Of this Local consumption can be
better understood when IL is known that
more than two-thlrds OF the focal fleet OF
Essmers are wood burners, and that many
Ct the mills and factories consume wood
Entirely Yet the city IL using 1885 tons
.; eoal month, 81 more than GA tons
Gsgy day In the year"
table then follows, giving the ship
msgis and receipts for every month dur
ilg 1897 The article concludes a. follows:
~hs Increase Ia the receipts and ship
nants Of coal bids fair during 1898 20 be
sossderabiy enhanced. as the demand for
fssl for the Yukon and Alaska steamers
VII be very great and the supply viii have
e COME mainly from Seattle"
H. the articles giving the produetion Of
Nal by states, and under Washington. Sir.
Wood SAYS that the total product in 1897
vas it5t.Ii2 short tons; spot value, s2.1T7.-
" 1.-THE amount % coal" says the re-
scrt produced IN the. state of Washing
hn during the year 1897 exceeded that OF
az previous wear. although there were
iiee years-fSsS. 1890 and isa3-when the
nlas ~ the product was greater than that
n 1881 Compared with 1896. the produc.
b. 1881 shows an Increase OF 23s COS short
soBs, or 70 ner cent. In quantity. and OF
Ei,ae or Is per cent. In value.
Washington coal mines were compare
tyeiy free from strikes in 1897, the only
srike reported being at the rssaauah
mlaes Of the Seattle Coal and Iron Com
T2ay, 10 King county. where 30A men were
OF for twentyfour days. from August
% August 81. An interesting report on the
sosI fields Of Puget sound. by Bailey WI
Is. Is contained IN part Ill OF the eight
haIh annual report OF the survey