The age-herald., 1899-03-18
COAL OUTPUT OF
 UNITED STATES
Interesting Figures Issued by Bu-
 reau of Statistics.
INCREASE IN EXPORT EATON
Is Causing Uneasiness Among the Goal Producers of Great Britain and Other Foreign Nations-Fig-
 ures on Annual Output.

Washington, March 1L-(Speclal) )-The announcement that the rapid increase in exportation of coal from the United States Is causing uneasiness among British coal producers and exporters lends interest to some figures on the coal ITO uction of the world, and especially in the United States, just issued by the treasur! bureau of sta tistics. 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 r per cent. of the worlds output, now furnishes about 25 per cent.
 No other country shows such rapid in crease in coal production as does the United States. Great Britain's average an null coal product, as shown by recent and widely quoted statistical publication of the Swedish government, in the five-year per- iod, 1S71-'75, amounted to 127 million tons, and in 1S91-'95 amounted to 1855 million tons, an increase of 45 per cent in the average annual output. Germany's average annual coal product in the period, 1S71-'75, was 45 million tons, and in the five-year period, 1S91- -'95, was 97 million tons, an increase of 115 per cent The average annual coal pro- duction~ of France in the period, 1S71-'75, was 16 million tons, and in the term, 1ss1- 95, 27 million tons, an increase of 70 per cent. The average annual coal production of the United States in the period 1S71-'75 was 45 million tons, and in the period lS91- '95, according to our own figures, was 132 million tons, an increase of 193 per cent. The average annual output of "other coun- tries not Individually specified was in 1S71-'75 34 million tons and in 1s9l-'95 79 million tons, increase of 132 per cent. The total average annual output of the world in 1S71-'75 was, in round numbers, 266 million tons, and in 1S91-'95 52O million tons, an increase of 95 per cent. Quitting the United States, the annual output in 1S71-'75 averaged 221 million tons, and the average in 1S91-'9 was 3S8 million tons, an increase of 75 per cent.
 Comparing the growth of coal production 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 out
  riod of 1S91-5:
 Increase,
 1S1-5 to 1S91-5 Great Brita'n. .... ...... 45 per cent. France. ........ ..............7 70 per.cent. Germany.... ........ ............llo percent. Other countries (omitting the
 United States) .132 per cent. World (omitting the United
 States) ........ ........ ........ 70 per cent World Gncluding the United
 States) -..... ...... ............ 70 per cent. United States. .193 per cent.
 Both the area of coal production and quantity produced have increased 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 was reported only from Pennsylvania, while the census of 1880 reports production in Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vir- ginia, and more recent reports show a pro- duction of anthracite coal in Colorado and New Mexico. In the south the increase has been especially rapid. Alabama in 1870 mined but 11,0O0 tons of coal, and in 1897 5,262, 900 tons. Kentucky which in 1870 mined but 15O.0OO tons of coal, produced in 1897 3,216. 900 tons. Tennessee increased her output from 133,0O0 tons in 1870 to 900 tons in 1897; and Virginia. which produced but 62. 900 tons in 1870. produced 1,365,000 tons In 1897.
 The following tables show the coal pro- ductlon of the United States and prices in the Philadelphia and Baltimore markets at five-year periods from 1870 to 1898; also the exportation of coal from. the United States during the same period.
 Quantity of coal produced in the United States from 1870 to 1897: