The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-11-25
BLACK DIAMONDS.

One characteristic industrial de-
veopment has been the Of the coal industry and sta
sca publication says the age machine age and
of Stean all be translated the age of coal Modern
civilization depends upon coal as fuel and one of the principal
of power We have just how the strike of
main coal fields going upset the commercial relations
OF the whole country and how important such cessation of work
going prove The interests involved led to the
compromise of arbitration.
Few people know they followed up the subject
what has been the the worlds coal trade and what
the position of the United States coal producer At this time
may be of interest nosome of the lighter statistics
this subject No butan expert follow the full ntrac1es
of the industry
In 1901 the total production Of the world 800 10000
In 1888 the worlds production had been 45o90ooOo tons
In 1864 the first when reliable statistics were obtained the
production 100000 less than twentytree
OF the production of the present day Calculations and
search show that in 1860 the production was 1oooooo TONS in
1880 100000 about tenth of the present
ducon and than the output of the State of Pennsylvania
Ten years earlier the world was only giving 45oooooo TONS or
oneeyeneenh OF the present output and in 1920 was only
100000 tons. r.. -.. g..
days there practically steamers and rail
ways manufacturing machinery looked upon askance gas
had into general and there electrical appar-
any practical value One look back upon as an age
darkness night and age of slow locomoon when many
people often moved ten miles from their birth places when
trip from New York TO New more considered and
thought oyer than run from Honolulu Paris Berlin,
London Constannope would be in day. And is coal
that has been the back Of all our Improvement
The production of coal present chiefly in the hands OF three
nations ersh the American and the German During the
las, thirty s and even earlier the combined coal output of the
States United Kingdom and Germany has averaged
and year about vehs OF the coal output OF the
world But while the united production of these three countries
positions altered considerably In 1868 the United
Kingdom produced three times much either the United
States Germany In 1875 Great Britain still in the lead
and in 1885 In 1896 Great Britain produced "a of
the worlds supply the United States 80 per and Germany
!: 1872.
In the year $780, for the first time the coal production of the
United States exceeded in quantity that OF Great Britain This
superiority has been maintained for successive years
there prospect that the leading position OF the United States
be lost OF another country within Cacuabe u
table of comparison for the last twenty years will show
both the production and also the startling
advance OF the United States The figures given Millions
with thousands, &c, omitted
Country, Production 1880. Production 1901.
/ United States .,,.......... 100000 293Ooo,ooO
J: United Kingdom .......... I64OOoOOo 245OOO,OoO
!: Germany ~. .......I.. 05OOOOOO 100000
All other ..ft ,;.,.......... 63OOO,OOO I55OoOOOO
We have other of making power We have
which supplies much of our electricity and oil which gives
motive power but the basis OF the prosperity of manufacturing
nation coal Moreover using coal great
ourselves Though have such output of COAL
export very little In the United Kingdom exported ST.
Germany and the United States ooo
The United States coal used up the manufactures and
the United States In fact this Of coal
makes pfeponderate in the worlds commerce.
There scientists who will show that the of
the coal supply Of the world will be exhausted But
aons of practical value and may be brushed aside What
predicate however that as long the United States sup
plies all the coal needs gong challenge the commercial
world manufacturing nation and shall win chal
enge The black diamonds of than gilt
terng gems of miliOnaire's wives.