Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-18
sTs1sds Coal Labor Figures.

Some Coal labor Figures.
,rife United States Geological survey
~ MAS just published a pamphlet which
has some figures regarding labor in the
coal mines which are of particular in
terest at this time. The report is for
--r~t the calendar year 1901, but it includes
comparative tables with earlier years,
and the, statistics regarding the num-
- Der OF men employed, the number of
days during the year in which they
work. the cost of mining coal and the
accidents in the mines are as accurate
and complete as the government can
make them
From 1898 to 1901 inclusive. the sta
tstics Of coal production We're as fol-
h lRsss:s IN 1898, the average number OF
men employed was 401.221, and they
4 averaged 100 working days during the
year, producing 219,974,667, short tons
of coal. valued at sos 600, $50; in 1889,
410365 men working PA days produced
1873, 992 short tons, valued at $3.50
077.434; fin 1900 44s.5S1 men working 212
days produced 2G9. 6s2,s27 short tons
valued at $685. 1854; in 1901, 4S5,544
men working PIG days produced 29S
29s, SIG short tons, valued at 1870, i69.
as In 1885, the average price of coal per
ton was 95 cents; in 1899, it was 1.01; in
Ma 1900. it was s114; IL 1901, it was s119.
According to the two great divisions
: ~ of the coal industry, the bituminous
and the anthracite, the statistics are
as follows: In the bituminous coal in
dustry in 1890, 192. 2o4 men working 226
days produced III, 302,S22 short tons,
valued at S1lO. 420, sol. an average of 2.56
tons per man per day. and of 5I9 tons
per man per year; in 1895. 1885, men
working I?A days produced 135,11S,l93
short tons. valued at $ll5,1I9.IH, an
average of go tons per man per day
and of 563 tons per man per year; in
1900. 304.375 men in 234 days produced
2I2.S149I2 short tons, valued at w.
9l3.513 or 29S tons per day and 697 tons
per man per year; in 1901, 3io, 255 men in
225 days produced 225. $40 short tons,
valued at s236, 406, 449, or 294 tons per
year. The average price of bituminous
coal per short ton in 1890 was 80 cents
in 1895. Sc cents: in 1900, $l.04 in 1901,
s1O5.
In the anthracite mines III 1880, Atiie
number of miners was 10000, who III
~. 2O0 DAYS produced 49, ASS. 6ff short tons,
! =. valued at $50, $3.50, 772, the average pro-
W. duction being 1S5 tons per man per
.StT dav and 1863 tons per man per year; in
~ 1895 1897 men produced in 1876 days
=. 81 1895, 3S1 short tons. valued at sS3,ol?.-
M, 272. an average of 2.O7 short tons per
man per day and of 406 tons per man
per year: n 1900. IA, 2O6 men working lee
DAYS produced 81. S67 ,915 short tons, val
=, ucd at $50. 1881. or 2.40 short tons per
/, tman per day and 1913 tons per man per
wear: in 1901, las, 500 men worked 1876
-days and produced 67471 ,667 short tons,
Owe, valued at sll2, 5oi,02o. an average pro-
"'~ duction of 2.36 short tons per man per
~ day and of 464 tons per man per year
-..ze The average price per short ton oil
pfs anthracite coal in 1890 was SLAB; in
r. 1895 II was VIAL IN i'"' II was "'''''
and in 1901 it was si.61.
49,, In the last II years the number Oh
,nIr workers In the anthracite mines mas
p increased from 12s,ooo in 1890 to l4o'3os
in 1901. or over Is per cent. During the
y same period the number of men IN
.i9a the bitumnous mines has Increased
- from 1872. 2oi to $40, e35, or a little over a
= per cent.
~, The statistics of accidents in the
,1sa mines In the calendar year lsoi' sho"
~. that 1867 men were killed, 3si3 men
{ were injured. and that 1SS.eeS tons oil
. coal were mined for each life lost IN
N the bituminous mines of the country
-, aJa men were killed and 24oo were IN
iured IN a total of .235 men at work
Is, in the anthracite mines 5lS men were
f.., killed and 1894 were injured. in total
- - .of 1ia,sD9 at work.
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