The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-10-17
COAL LABOR STATISTICS
In Both Anthracite and Soft Coal
Regions.

Regions.
The volume of mineral resources
of the United States for the calendar
year 1901, now in press, United States
Geological survey, presents some in
teresting statistics of the labor in the
coal mines of the country.
From 1898 to 1901, inclusive, the
statistics of coal production were as
follows: In 1898, the average num- |
Der of men employed was 4O1, POI, and
they averaged 100 working days dur
ing the year, producing 219,974667, |
short tons of coal, valued at $20S ,0O0,- |
$50; in 1899, 410,365 men working PA
days produced 253,739,99 short tons,
valued at $256,077, 434; in 1900, 44S,-
5S1 men working PIP days produced
269, 6S2,S27 short tons valued at $685.
| GIL 1854; in 1901, 1854 men working
ZIG days produced 293 ,298,516 short
tons valued at $S4S, $40, 469. In 1898,
the average price of coal per ton was
95 cents; in 1899, it was $1.01; in
$119.
| According to the two great di-
visions of the coal industry, the btu
minous and the anthracite, the statis-
tics are as follows: In the bitumin-
GUS coal industry in 1890, 192,204
men working 226 days produced ILL.,
302,S22 short tons valued at $110,-
420,801, an average of 256 tons per
man per day, and of $40 tons per man
per year; in 1895, 1892 men work
! ing 1914 days produced 1876, 118,1vo
| short tons, valued at $115,779,771, an
average of 200 tons per man per day
and of 563 tons per man per year; in
| 1900, 304,S75 men in 234 days produc-
ed 212,314912 short tons, valued at
| 1920, ,51S, or 2.98 tons per day and
697 tons per man per year; in 1901,
340,235 men in 225 days produced
225, S26,S49 short tons, valued at
| 1926, 406 ,449, or 2.94 tons per~man per
day and 664 tons per man per year.
The average price of bituminous coal
per short ton in 1890 was 80 cents;
in 1895, SO cents; in 1900, $1.04; in
1901, $1O5.
|
number of miners was 10000, who
in 200 days produced 46, Gal short
tons, valued at $66,383,722, the aver
age production being 1.85 tons per
man per day and 369 tons per man
per year; in 1895, 142,917 men pro-
duced in 1876 days 57,999,337 short
tons valued at $82,019, 272, an aver
age of 2.O7 short tons per man per
day and of 406 tons per man per
year; in 1900, 144,2O6 men working
166 days produced 57,367,91 short
tons, valued at $S5,757,851 or 2.40
tons per man per year; in 1901, 145,-
300 men worked 1876 days and pro-
duced 67,471 ,667 short tons, valued
at $112,504,020, an average produc-
ton of 1856 short tons per man per
day and of Asa tons per man per year.
anthracite coal in 1890 was Slab;
in 1895 it was $1.41; in 1900 it was
$1.49; in 1901 it was $1.67.
In the last twelve years the num-
Der of workers in the anthracite
mines has increased from 10000 in
1890 to 145.309 in 1901, or over Is per
cent. During the same period the
number of men in the bituminous
has increased from 192,204 to $40, 235,
or a little over Upper cent
The statistics of acci tents in the
mines in the calendar year 1901, al
ready published in part, show that
,467 men were killed 3,643 men were
injured, and that 1886 tons of coal
were mined for each life lost. In the
bituminous mines of the country 954
men were killed and 2,400 were injur-
ed, in total of SAC, 235 men at work:
in the anthracite mines 513 men were
killed and 1924 were injured In a
total of 145,309 at work.
The statistics of Pennsylvania
alone show sol men killed, 656 men
injured, and an average of 273,288
short tons of coal mined for each life
lost in the bituminous mines; and 513
men killed, 1,243 men injured, and
an average of 1884 short tons of
coal mined for each life lost in the
anthracite mines. 1t is interesting
to note that in Pennsylvania the num-
Der of short tons of bituminous coal
mined per life lost was little more
than double the number of short tons
, of coal mined per life lost in the an
) thracite mines.
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