The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-28
8|TUM|NOUS COAL
NOW VERY POPULAR
The South Very Much interested
in This Matter.
TRADE UP TO HIGHEST PITCH
Expert F.E saward Gives gu. Some
Facts That Are Very Readable
The Mining Machine.
Notes.
TRADE. UP TO HIGHEST PITCH
tsnec,a, Dispatch to Tho Times )

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BALTIMORE. MD, November ~
Never before was the bitutninous coal
made OF this country, in which the South
is SO deeply interested. given such an inn
peius rs during the strike in the anthra-
rire fields in the view of air. T. Il. Sa-
@rsa. the We'll known coat expert; this
activity seems likely to continue. Writ
Jig IL this weeks issue of the Manufac-
tarflS Record. he says:
II is no; unsafe to say that when the
returns are in Tor the year 1902 tac&toIiti
viii show production OF btuElinods
coal four times as great as that OF an
fiiaclte. and when one considers ilat !.
Is not so many years a9o--in the III e y
Al industry or OF country--tisal .il l
were on an equal footing. so lar ds 1oii.
mage is concerned. that statement Hies.
have great bearing upon me 81 u'i a. -,
7 h. trace Keeps up TO the highest pitch
OF activity. and the cry OF short car -, . y
ply IS heard Throughout the country. me q,
one significant fact being that me raia-
road companies gre and fla's oeeii 20 y
buyers, Tnov arc taking Inc ma
Tonnage allowed si,y their contracts. ana
Euys been buying in the open hia1hee'
tlitl.s p,,rnIirtg for the winter and pos
sti,!s acting on tite;r knowledge OF an IN
sufficient car suI1i1:F.
HEAVY. TONNAGE.
Mr. SawaId points 10 the very heavy
tonnage OF rails. plates and shapes booked
for next ,car ard to the evidence that
I'll. railroads will be az busy in rehabili-
ts.inE their lines in 1905 as they have
been this year together with the extern
s,uns under way. as explanation OF the
great develo?uient of coal lands through
osli the western Part of Pennsylvania, In
the yirginias and in other Southern States.
He afids
..rIhe injury of coal mining and distrl-
tutfonshas taken on somewhat Of the pro-
rnltit3sls Of craftsmanship. requiring
bread yiews. large ideas and ioresiShted
ri.iipn. and the ciaas!Ee. rs against a few
y..ars ego Is most remarkable. BUSINESS
~ conducted on so colossal scale that
small unu narrow visioned men are not
in the reckoning when it is TO be directed
under the Impulses of the new economic
conditions t.l;l, have developed with such
marvellous rap!dity and are pushing men
forward faster than they desire.
The production of coal In the world Is
row in the hands of the United States
Great BritaiI, and Germany. ard during
1heslas, few years we have dstanced the
last two countries and shall MAINTAIN
our position. In spite of the fact That
there MAS considerable time lost IN the
anthracite mines Ibis year form come
OF the bituminous districts the production.
has increased Ten per cent. White IN oAil-
III has shown even a idf bei iiiSit-ase.
We are learning not only TO be saving
In the nmountso OF coal actually bought Tor
The purpose Of burning. but we are learn
tn.. 10 burn coal with greater economy,
md bituintnous coal has shown its value
5n many paces during the past year.
.l3 is stated tl1ut in New England man
ufacturing establishments the economy Of
mo; has reached fifty per cent. within the
pss, twenty years, and that is largely
owing to tho change which has taken
nlace for the statistics for the port OF
foSton show that twice as much btu
nlnots is now received there annually
MS anthracite. whereas few years ago
4te, were on an even footing.
THE MINING MACHINE.
..T+ ,s the growth of the mining ma
~,,tr. used IN h,uminous mines IN this
country which has enabled the bituinnous
r,rodaction8 to increase as it has. so that
&, tbs. ten years from 1854 to l.pl TIE ma
chine mined product increased from e.So,-
0,1 TONS 10 nearly 6h.09o,e0a tons and as
,ha,,,se Of these machines is greatest and
tte nrogrc:;s has been greatest In the
r.,t-ai proup of States. as we'll as in
west Virginia. Ii is clearly evident that
c,on those places is the greatest output
OF coal likely to come. and at rate
which viii afford the opportunity for dis
rosin1 OF the product of the mine on a
fair basis of cost: for in West Virginia,
uh.ro the ma chine mined coal was gGS.eoo
coma In 1891. it vas increased TO i,So0N1
IONS In 1901. and IT is no douft this which
NM that State IN third place last year.
snt as Illinois was only oHp tons
.head. i. is not unlikely that when this
.aar,. ret,,rps are made uptthe Mountain
c,.t4 Nil, occupy. second place in coal
,,-oauction In this Country. for with
.,tc,,5 developments going on in the Fair
mont and IN the Norfolk and Western
6ist,lcts, such an Increase is easily made
up -, -
Taken al in all. the prospects lor me
&t,,,--s,1F,,,. coal trade Of this country are
she briehtest. With the industrial condi-
ron as it is and as ii is likely to be.
n,Iastre source of fuel supplies OF nous
.,tes bainc hitu,rlinous coal, the situation