New-York tribune., 1899-06-05
THE WORLDS COAL.
orrAr BRITAIN THE LAhGheL FHo
DIycER, THE UNITED STATES
CLOSE SECOND.
,,,x or THIS COUNTRY TOWARD THE
,,s~ p1AcE-F1GUREs OF PRODUCTION.
AND EXPORT.

c,rN OF THIS COUNTRY TOWARD THE
,-asr pIAcE-E1GuREs OF PRODUCTION
CONSUMPTION AND EXPORT
.o- 1ne (speciaD.-The coal produc-
Ns"s Consumption Of the world during the last
tioh a are presented In some tables Just pre-
A'te - ,he Treasury Bureau Of Statistics. These
pa AZ, while the United Kingdom is still the
., sn0" coal producer Of the world. the United
% l%sis q. a close second and Il the present rate
..r.ln !, continued VIII soon become the leading
" 80, a-osucng country Of the world. The coal
.,..on o. the United Kingdom in 1897 2O2.-
.ons that os the United States 17s 10000 TONS
.o,v 81 Sooooo France, So,cN,oco; Belgium, o.
1e.o- Austria Hungary, 1900 90: Russia nearly
40. Australasia nearly 100000: Japan over
100: British India. 40oo.oo0; Canada. nearly
.onao and Spain, 100000, while no other country
..,ched 100000 tors In production. The United
s,,,ss however. has gained much more rapidly
1-rsnr the 1fteen years under consideration than
has the United Kingdom. or. indeed. any OF the i'm
,or.ant coal-producng countries OF the world. her
cain during the fifteen years being over 73 per cent
and ths: OF the United Kingdom less .han "A per
cent The announcement just made by the Geolog-
,al Surrey that the coal product of the United
States in 1898 was 2isssooo short tons. against 26
sSND for Great Britain. shows that the United
states is rapidly gaining upon that country as a
coa producer. and will soon become the leading
coai-producing nation OF the world.
As an exporter OF coal. however. the United
States takes low rank in proportion TO its produc
,ion and stands fourth in the list OF coa-export-
ing countries In 1887 the expectations of coal
from the United Kingdom were 5000 900 tons: from
Germany. 600: from Belgium. over 100000. and
from the United States a little less than 100000
though IN 1898 the quantity exported was slightly
above 4e00 900 tons. Australasia comes next 10 the
United States as coal-exporting country. her ex-
rorts amounting to nearly 100000 tons, while
"a oh 9 fapa
Canada about 5000 tons in 1897
France is the largest coal-importing country, her
importations in 1887 being nearly 100000 tons.
while Germany imported 100000. Austria-Hun-
gary 56OOo. Italy 4.25Oep. Canada nearly 100000
Ralpiurn nearly 100000. Russia 100000 Sweden
over 25aWo the United States nearly 10000 and
Australasia 10000 tons while other country
imported as much 100000 tons.
Great Britain Is also the largest consumer OF
coal in proportion 10 population her coal con-
sumption In 1897 being sS tons per capita. that Of
Belgian 27O tons the United States 242 Germany
is Canada rs France 0ss. Australasia 0s7.
Sweden O5O Austria-Hungary 0s7 Spain o.ls Italy
Ois Russia 00e and Japan O.07 OF ton per capita.
According 10 these figures which are summarized
from report OF the coal production Of the prin-
cipal countries Of the world. just issued by the
British Government the United States now pro-
duces about Sper cent OF the coal OF the world the
coa< product OF the fourteen countries enumerated
tn the bles being in 1897 56oOooO tons of which
the United States produced 17s 10000 tons while in
1859 she produced but q per cent Of the total coal
product OF the countries enumerated As above
indicated. the 1888 figures make an even more sat-
isfactory showing for the United States, whose
product IN long tons for that year Is lg22.OO.
against a02 900 long tons produced in Great
Britain.
The following table shows the coal mined in all
countries producing more than 100000 tons an
nually in 1855 1890 and 1905 figures for 1897 being
given in cases where those Of 1895 are not access
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