The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-12-29
GOAL EXPORTSFROM
UNITED STATES

Coal exports from the United States
have trebled in value in the last dozen
years. The value of coal passing out
of continental United States in the
year 1911 is, in round terms, so million
dollars, compared with 65 million in
the Immediately preceding year. The
states value of coal exported in the 10
months ending with October. 1911. is
A million dollars, that of coke, 8 mil
lion, and that of coal supplied to YES
sells engaged in the foreign trade. 1S
million, making total of So million
dollars and justifying the bureau of
statistics of the department of COM
merce and labor in its statement that
the aggregate value of coal passing
out of the United States in the full
calendar year will approximate so mil
wlion dollars.
The United States ranks third among
the coal-exporting countries of the
world, being exceeded in this respect
by the United Kingdom, and Germany.
In 1910, the latest year for which com
parisons can be made, the coal ex-
ports in the United Kingdom were val
ued at 179 million dollars, those of
Germany at i04 million, those of the
United Stat S, exclusive of bunker
coal, As million, and those of France,
about 6 million dollars. The exports
of the United States have grown far
more rapidly, however, than those of
any of the countries named Compar-
ing the figures of 1910 with those of
1900, exports of coal and coke (exclu-
sive of bunker coal) from the United
States have increased from % to as
million dollars, or practically 100 per
j cent; those of Germany increased
from 65 to 104 million dollars, or 60
i per cent; while those from the United
Kingdom decreased from 1S3 to 179
million dollars. Those of France show
little change during the decade, coal
exports fro mthat country having in
creased from 6A to 1-3 million in
the period from 1900 to 1910.
Canada is the principal destination
of the coal exported from the United
States, being credited with $15,126,207
out Of total Of 1886, ,S56 worth of
anthracite, and $21, 1,510,6O4 out of
= total of $2S,732S8S worth of bitumin-
n11c -,
lending with October of the present
year. OF the other markets for blum
nous coal from the United States the
principal countries are Cuba, Mexico,
and Panama, each taking between ST.
100000 and $2,OOO,0O0 worth annually.
Canada is also the largest market for
our exported coke, having received last
year about three-fourths of the entire
exports, while practically all the re-
mainder went to Mexico.
Coal now ranks seventh among the
articles of expectation in the foreign
commerce of the country So far as
ascertainable from the 10 months fig
ures now available in the bureau of
statistics, the principal articles or
groups of articles exported from the
United States in the calendar year
1911 rank as follows: Cotton, about
500 million dollars; iron and steel,
about 250 million dollars; meat and
dairy products, 165 million; copper,
about SO million; wood manufactures,
about so million, wheat and flour, about
80 million, and coal, including coke,
55 million dollars. Coal in the value
of its exports exceeds such important
articles as cotton manufactures, to-
bacco, leather, agricultural implements
corn, and cotton seed oil; while if we
add to the exports of coal to foreign
countries the value Of that sold for
use on vessels engaged in the foreign
trade the total, 80 million dollars,
would closely approach that of wheat
and flour, wood and manufactures, or
copper.
y Coal exports still bear small rela-
tion to the domestic production of that
staple Or the total production of
anthracite and bituminous coal in the
United States last year, aggregating
$50 million long tons, about 20 million
tons left the country II million tons
being consigned to foreign countries
and about million being for use on
vessels engaged in the foreign trade.
OF anthracite the production last year
was rs million tons, the exports mil
lion; and of bituminous coal the pro-
duction last year was 372 million tons
and the exports, including the six mil
lion tons of bunker coal, about II mil
lion tons.
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