Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-19

ou " 6oG,61V,too SuOTt lOnS Ndlueu at
S34S,S13,S31. AS compared with 1900,
when the output amounted to 269,SS1,-
BIT short tons, worth $306,S91 1854, this
represents an increase of 22,35S,931
short tons or per cent in quantity,
and of $41,922, 467 or 1876 per cent in
value. The production of Pennsylva-
mia anthracite showed phenomenal
increase from 51,22I,353 long tons
equivalent to 57,367,915 short tons)
in 1900 to 60,242,560 long tons or 81
All ,667 short tons in 1901. This rep
resented a gain of liz per cent, the
largest percentage of gain made by
the anthracite trade in twenty years.
Part of this increase in 1901 was due
to decreased output of anthracite in
1900 as compared with 1899, as owing
to the historic strike of 1900 the out
put that year was reduced by over
100000 long tons. The production
last year shows an increase over 1899
of 6,297,913 long tons, and except for
the strike of 1900 would have shown
an increase over that year of 100000
long tons, or about half the actual in
crease made.
The increase in the value of the an
thracite product is still more striking,
the amount received at the mines last
year showing gain of $27,746,169, or
more than 81 per cent over that of
1900. This was entirely due to the
unprecedented period of prosperity
which enabled consumers generally to
pay higher prices for their fuel The
average price for the marketed anthra-
cite coal-that is, the product shipped
to market or sold to local trade, and
exclusive of the colliery consumption
which amounted to about 10 per cent
of the total-was $2.05, the highest
figure obtained since 1888.
The production of bituminous coal,
Ignite, camel coal, etc., including a
small amount Of anthracite from Col
orado and New Mexico increased from
212,513,912 short tons in 1900 to 224,-
769,091 short tons in 1901, indicating
gain of 12,255,17 tons or about per
cent. The value of this product
amounted to $236,309,S11 as compared
with $221.133,513 in 1900, an increase
of Sis, 176,298, or little less than Z
per cent. The price of the bituminous
product did not show any material adj
vance in 1901, the average being about
0.S cent higher than in 1900
OF the q states producing coal in
1901, all but four showed increased
production. The four whose product
decreased were California, Montana,
New Mexico and Tennessee. The pro-
duction by states is shown in the fol
lowing table during 1901:
Alabama, $9,07s,6 ST.; $9,987S11.
Arkansas, 1,7S4,136; $2,O33, 1913.
California, 151, 079; $394,106
Colorado, 5,699,016; $6,441, 1891.
Georgia and North Carolina, 354,S25;
$426,6S5.
Idaho, O; 0.
Illinois, 27,313,296; $2S,452,27S.
Indiana, 6,962,940; $7,07s,S42.
Indian Territory, 2,406,949; $685..
1893.
Iowa, 5,57S,522; $S,O16,274.
Kansas, 4,SSO,526; $5,973,3S1.
Kentucky, 5,4S7 1874; $5,20S. 094.
Maryland, 5,113,127; $5,046, 491.
Michigan, 1,O4O,530; S1,543,756.
Missouri, 3,799,993; $4,7O3 TIA.
Montana, 1,396,O81; 2,O09,316.
New Mexico, 1,086,546; $1,546,652.
North Dakota, 166,OS5; s212,635.
Ohio, 19,695,723; $19,7S9,95S.
Oregon, COOL; $173,646.
Pennsylvania, 1880; $4,000
,906.
Tennessee, 3,546,551; S3,969,249.
Texas, 1,OS6,O12; $1.SS5,OS3.
Utah, 1,322,614; $1,666,0S2.
Virginia, 1858 ,999; $2,523,270.
Washington, 2,578,217; $4,271 ,076.
West Virginia, 23,S16,434; $2O,90S,
l705.
Wyoming, 4,4S5,374; $6,060,462.
Total bituminous, 224, 1853, 091; 1926,
3O9,S11.
Pennsylvania Anthracite, 67,471 ,667;
$112,5O4 900.
Total product, 2s2 ,24O,75S; s34s,s13,
S31.
The preliminary report issued by the
inspectors of mines for Great Britain
shows that the production of coal il
the United Kingdom last year was 219,
OBJ, 240 long tons, decrease of 6,132,
923 long tons from 1900.
Reducing the product of the United
| States to the same unit, we find tha
it amounted to 260,92y,24S long tons
or 42,439,76O long tons (nearly 20 PEI
cent? more than that of Great Britain
The coal output of her colonies and de
4 tendencies Gncluding India) aggre
gated in 1900 about 100000 lons
tons, so that taking all the British
Empire as one producer it still fall!
short of the coal product of the United
States last year by from 20,000,000 t,
25, 100000 long tons.
Z. Our coal production last year wal
nearly so per cent larger than Ger
many's, nearly times that of Austria
Hungary, and more than 8 times tina
of France.
JOHN cowNIE's EeoTIsM.
\ (The vinton Eagle.)