The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-24
COAL EXPORTS SHOW ENORMOUS INCREASE Will Total Sixty-five Million
 Dollars IS IMPORTANT EXPORT In 1900 Export Totaled Twenty-three Williams and Twenty Years Ago Only Amounted to About
 Seven Millions
IS IMPORTANT EXPORT

Washington, January 2s.-(speciaL)- Coal and coke exports from the United States in 1910 aggregated s45,000,o00 in value and in addition to this more than E0,o0o000 worth was supplied to vessels engaged in the foreign trade. making total of se5,0OO,0o0 worth of coal passing out of the United States in the calendar year 1910. In 1900 the total value of coal and coke exported (aside from that sup piled to vessels in the foreign trade) was about $23,Oo0,000; 20 years ago, about s. 000,0o0, and % years ago, s2,000,000. Thus the value of coal exported to foreign countries in 1910 is practically double that of 10 years ago, six times as much as that 20 years ago, and 2 times as much as 90 years ago. The quantity. exported has grown from little over 5Oo, ,O0e tons ir 1880 and about 2,0o0oOo in 1890 to ap- proximately s,o0O.oO0 tons in 1900 and 14,- 0Oo.0oo in 1910, aside from the 6,0000o0 tons supplied to vessels engaged in the foreign trade.
 Coal is thus becoming one of the inn portant articles of exportation in the for eign trade of the United States. The m- portant items of exportation are: Cotton, approximately s53O, 600; meat and dairy products. s13o,0oo,o0O copper and mineral oil, about $94,0O0,oO0 each; lumber about $4,0oo,o0o; corn about s2S.OoO,O0o; wheat approximately $23, 900 GOO; leather $3S, GOO, ,0O0 and tobacco $S6,ooo,Ooo. While, of course, cotton, meats. copper and mineral oil are of much larger value in their respec- tive totals, coal now exceeds in value of lts expectations corn, wheat, tobacco, lumber, leather and numerous other articles which have been looked upon as important factors in our export trade and the growth in the exportation of this article, coal, has been more rapid than that in many other leading articles of ex- portation.
 About one-third of the s45,O00,O00 worth of coal exported, say $15.0O0 600 worth .. in round terms, is anthracite; about ST. 000,000 worth of bituminous coal, and about $3,000,0O0 worth coke. The growth in exportation of bituminous has been late more rapid than that of anthracite, the increase in bituminous in 1910 over 1908 being more than $3,OO0,O0o, and in anthracite an increase of about s1 1,OO0 GOO in the stated value as shown by the ex- port figures published by the bureau of statistics of the department of commerce and labor
 The countries to which this coal is now scnt are chiefly. and quite naturally. those comparatively near Of the 3l5.O0O, GOO worth of anthracite coal exported in 1910 all but about $250000 worth went to Can- ada. Of the s27.oO0,0O0 worth of bituminous exported in 1910, about 31S. .000,0OO worth went to Canada, $2,5o0, GOO worth went to Cuba; more than $100o,000 worth to other West India islands; nearly $2000.0O0 worth to Mexico, and something over s300O, 600 worth to other countries. The list of 'sother countries' to which this s3OO0, 900 worth of coal is sent is a large one, in- dicating that various and numerous sec tions of the world are experimenting with American coal The 1909 figures of the bureau of statistics show about s3a3,- S33 8 sent to Italy, nearly $1O0,000 worth 10 Chile $84O00 worth to Australia: $52- oo0 worth to British East Indies; s52 900 worth to Morocco, to say nothing of s30o.- Ooo worth sent to the Philippine islands, and nearly $1,O00,000 worth to Panama
 While the value of coal exports Is rap idly increasing, and now forms an im- portant factor in the foreign trade, the quantity exported still forms a very small proporition of the entire product. The figures of the bureau of statistics show that but about per cent of the anthra- cite coal produced in the United States is exported. and that but about per cent Of the bituminous coal production is sent tv foreign countries. Combining the coal exported with that supplied to vessels en- gagged in the foreign trade, 1t may be said in very general terms that approx imately 8 per cent of the product of our coal mines now passes out of the coun- tsys though its stated value at the porta