The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-29
TEXAS COAL.
Output in 1907 Reported by Govern
ment Statisticians.

The production Of cool in Texas in
1907 was greater by 1888 per cent
in quantity anG 27.5@ per cent in
value than that of 1906, according
to E. w. Parker, of tie United States
Geological Sutsey amounting to l.
648,069 short tons, having a spot
value of $2,778,811.
This increase in the coal output
is largely the res,l. of the condition
of the petroleum industry in the
state in the las- two years. In 1906
the output of petroleum was so per
cent less than in 1905 and the coal
output showed an incl ease of 112-
1879 short tons. In 1907 the produc-
ton of petroleum was about the
| same as as In 1906, the decrease be-
| ing insignificant but the advance in
the price of fuel oil in the state was
so decided that number of railroads
returned to coal for locomotive use,
and the effect on the coal industry
is shown by the figures given above.
Coal or ignite was produced in 16
counties of Texas III 1907, or three
more than in 1906. The counties re-
porting production OF bituminous
coal-Erath, Mccullough, Maverick,
Palo Pinto, Parker, Webb, and Wise
were the same as in 1906; of the
Ignite producing courties-Bastrop
Fayette, Hopkins, Houston, Leon,
Medina, Milan, Robertson, and
Wood-three (Fayette, Leon and
Robertson) were pew.
| The bituminous and Ignite mines
in these counties gave employment
Of 242 days, as compered with 3,048
lren for an average of 227 days in
1906. OF the total number. 3,137
men were employed in the bitumin-
GUS mines for an average of 255
days, and I $50 in the Ignite mines
for an average of 204 days. The av-
erage production per man per day
in the bituminous mines was 1.18
tons, and in the Ignite mines 3.18
tons. The average production per
man for the year was 800 tons in
the bituminous mines, and 649.3 In
the Ignite mines. the average for the
state being $50 tons. In most Of the
bituminous mines the men worked
eight hours day, but in the Ignite
mines the ten hour day is the rule.
One mine employing so men report
! ed nine hours at the length of the
working day Mining machines were
used in three mines in 1907, and the
product amounted to 36,10O short
tons mined with machines; in
1906 the use OF IL machines resulted
I'M 22,6S2 short tons of coal.
| NJ. r. Campbell, OF the United
States Geological Survey, estimates
that the bituminous coal fields of
Texas. as now known. contain work
able coal over $500 square miles,
and that an area of $500 square
miles, not SO we'll known, may con-
tain workable beds. The known lig-
mite areas are estimated to cover
1000 square miles, and it is posi-
Bile that workable Ignite deposits
may be found in an area $1,000
square miles in extent, stretching
from Sabine and Red rivers on the
east and north to the Rio Grande on
the southwest. The original supply
of bituminous coal In Texas is esti-
mated at 5000, 100000 short tons
and of Ignite at 100000, 900
short tons, making a total OF 81 ,O0O,-
'WDrtrOse tons as the original supply
OF tke state. From this there had
been produced, up to the close of
1907, total of 14,444,948 short
tons, which represents an exhaus-
ton of 100000 tons, or 0.07 per
cent Of the original supply. The sup
ply left in the ground at the close of
1907 would be equal to about l9 900
times the production of last year.