Arizona republican., 1899-03-21
United States Leads in the
 Amount of Tonnage.
NEGOTIATIONS TO EUROPE
English Dealers Alarmed Over inc lnrOadS Being Made in Markets Hitherto TheirS-Anfhracife Now Mined in Colorado and New Mex ico-MarVeIouS Increase of Pro- duCfion in inc Southern SfafeS.

Washington, March 20-(Special.)- The announcement that the rapid in- crease in eMportation of coal from the United States is causing uneasiness among British. coal producers and eX- porters lends interest to some figures on the coal production of the world and especially of the United States. just issued by the treasury bureau of statistics From these it appears that the coal production of the United States is now nearly five times as much as in 1870; that the eXpOrtation has in that time increased from a quarter of a million tons to over four million tons, and that the United States, which in 1870 supplied but F per cent Of the worlds output. now furnishes about 25 per cent.
 No ether country shows such a rapid increase in coal production as does the United States. Great Britains average annual coal product, as shown by a re- cent and widely quoted statistical pub lication of the Swedish government, m
 
 to 127,OO0,00O tons, and in 18915 amounted to 1S5,O0O,00O tons, an in crease of 45 per cent in the average an nual output. Germany's average annual coal product in the period, 1871-5, was 45,000,000 tons, and in the five-year period, 1S915. was 97.000,000 tons, an increase of 115 per cent. The average oF Nrnv in, the period, 1871-5, was 16000, 900 tons. and in the term, 1S91-5, 27,0OO,0OO tons, an increase of 70 per cent. The av- craze annual coal production of the the United States in the period 1871-5 was 45,000, ,000 tons, and in the period 1S91-5, according to our own figures, was 132, ,000,0O0 tons, an increase of 1s3 per cent. The average annual output of "other countries" not individually specified, was in 1S71-5 34,000, 900 tons, and in 1891-5 790O0, 900 tons. an ir- crease of 132 per cent. The total av- craze annual output of the world in 1871-5 was in round numbers 265 000,- 900 tons, and in 1S91-5 520, 900, ,U0G tons, an increase of 95 per cent. Quitting
  1875 averaged 221, 1,OO0, 900 tons and the average in 1891-5 wac 3S8, ,O00,O ,O00 tons, an increase of 75 per cent.
 Comparing the growth of coal pro- duction of the United States with other parts of the world in the periods named the record stands as follows:
 Growth of coal production Of leading countries, comparing average annual output in the period 1871-5 with that of period 1S91-5
 Increase, 1S71-5 to 1S91-5:
 Great Britain, 45 per cent.
 France, 70 per cent
 Germany, 115 per cent.
 Other countries (omitting the United States), 115 per cent.
 World (omitting the United States). 132 per cent.
 World Gncluding the United States), | 95 per cent
 United States, 193 per cent.
 Both the area of coal production and | quantity produced have increased l greatly in the United States. In 1870 the number of states in which coal was produced was but twenty, while in | 1897 the number was thirty-two. In | 1870 the production of anthracite coal l was reported only from Pennsylvania, | while the census of 1880 reports a pro- duction in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia, and more recent reports | show a production of anthracite coal in | Colorado and New Mexico. In the south the increase has been especially l rapid. Alabama in 1870 mined but | 11,000 tons of coal, and in 1897 5,262,- 900 tons; Kentucky, which in 1870 | mined but 15O,OO tons of coal, produced | in 1897 3,216,OO0 tons Tennessee in creased her output from 133, ,0OO tons in 1870 to 2,5OO,O0O tons in 1897, and Virginia, which produced but 62 900 tons in 1870, produced 1 1865, ,OOO tons in 1897.