The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-10-18
TENTH IN LIST
OF COAL STATES
TENNESSEE SUCCEEDS TO PLACE
LONG HELD BY KANSAS
SHOWING BIG GAIN.
w. VIRGINIA SECOND
Passing illinois BY one-t4shIf of
One Per cent-PennsyI-
vania's Lead.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.-Tennei
see ranked tenth among the coal pro
dueing states in 1906, succeeding Kar
sas in rank, which state held the pos
ton in 1905. A great increase wa
shown in the production Of coal Il
the State of Tennessee last year owe
the year previous. The total amour
mined being about 6,500,000 shor
tons. Alabama and Kentucky botf
showed a great increase also in the
production of coal during the same
year. Alabama again succeeds the
State of Indiana as the fifth coal pro
ducing state Her total production
las year amounted to more than 49,.
100000 short tons. The State of Ken
lucky ranks eighth last year in pro-
duction, with a total of more than
100000 short tons.
The most important changes last
year in the rank of coal producing
states was West Virginia succeeding
the State of Illinois as the second
greatest coal producing state. In
West Virginia, the production of coal
has been increasing greatly each year,
and she now holds the position which
Illinois occupied since 1876. Under
ordinary conditions this displacement
would have occurred within a year or
two at any rate, but it was FASTENED
last year by the suspension of mining
in those states where the mine work
ers were organized. But even in the
State of Illinois, where there was
complete shut down of the coal mines
for period of nearly eleven weeks
last year, that state exhibited nor
NAL increase in the amount of coal
produced over the previous year, and
it is claimed that the production there
would not have been any larger had
there been no interruption in mining
operations. 1t is quite true that dur
ing the closing of mines in other
states last year, work in the coal |
mines of West Virginia were unusual
ly active, and in addition, to the in
creased production at the operating
mines much new territory was opened
and development work started for the
first time. During last year there was
a greater increase in the production
Of coal in West Virginia than in any
other state of the union, and in view
Of the developments made, it is quite
likely that that state will for many
years to come, rank second as the
greatest of all coal producing states
n the country.
OF course Pennsylvania ranks above
LII other states for her production of !
,oal but even that state has fallen off {
in the amount OF coal {
Produced. now supplying less than SO {
,er cent of the coal used in this i
and as recently as 1880 she Y
vas credited with more and two-thirds
i the total output of coal in the coun- {
ry. Last year Pennsylvania pro- /
uced little over As per cent of /
be total amount of coal mined in the n
United States West Virginia sup ii
lied 10.5 per cent. and the State of il
Illinois 10 per cent t
During the year 1906, 414,157,27S a
hort tons of coal were mined in the
rnited States INCLUDING Alaska), over n
100000 tons, of which comes from O
ne State of Pennsylvania (about H. n
DO 900 anthracite and 100000 tons, G
The number of tons
reduced in West Virginia was about n
!, $4,000 and Al, 100000 in the State a
, Illinois. "