The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-12-14

Are the Shipments of An
thracite Coal for the
Year Ending.

Heavy shipments OF anthracite and
satisfactory volume OF bituminous'
coal shipped by rail, sea and river
during the ten months of the present
year are shown. by the figures OF
Internal commerce, Just made pub
lie BY the Bureal OF Statistics OF the
Department of Commerce and Labor,
Anthracite coal shipments during
October from eastern producing ter
ritory aggregated 6,269,l7s long tons.
a total exceeded only once during
the present year and once before in
March, 1909. The total for the ten
months. 57,645.55S long tons, is the
largest total on record for any ten
month period. The October ship
ments OF hard coal from the ports of
New York. Philadelphia and Bait
more. aggregated l,523.264 long tons,
compared with 141Lll1 long tons in
October, 1910. The quantities of an
thracite coal shipped at these ports
during the ten months of the present
year totaled s,7ssO1s long tons. COM
pared with 12.s4s,s94 long tons in
1910. =
The combined soft coal tonnage OF
ten eastern railroads for October is
given as ls,s44ss7 short tons; com
pared with 12.Sss9S4 shorstols in.
October, 1910. The same carriers
report the soft coal tonnage for the
ten months of the present year az
l13,3Sl,sO3 short tons as. against
ll2,294O3l short tons for the ten
months of the last year. A similar
increase is shown by the October and
ten-month figures Of b!tuminous coal
shipped at the FIVE principal Atlantic
coal ports. The total for the month,
2,3673S4 long tons, shows normal
increase over the October. 1910, fig
ures. Substantial increases in the
quantities of soft coal handled dur
ing the ten months of the present
year are reported by all the ports
except Newport News, the increase
being especially heavy in the case Of
Norfolk. The combined ten months
figures for the five ports were g.
3i6,2S6 long tons, as against q ,5Os,-
79S long tons, in 1909.
Domestic lake shipments Of hard
coal for the ten months of the pres
ent year, given as 3,722, IA short tons,
compared with 3,57O.553 short tons in
1910. Like shipments OF soft coal
totalted 149s6,65S short tons for the
ten months Of the present year, as
compared with 16,25l.s19 short tons
reported for the same period in 1910,
OF this total 14.2S2,61O short tons were
shipped from Lake Erie ports and
4s2,351 short tons from Lake Mich
igan ports. OF the coal received by
lake during the present year S,S65,3S4
short tons we're landed at Lake SUI
perior ports, 5,704,57O short tons a,
Lake Michigan ports, and 442,522I
short tons at Lake Huron ports. This
total is exclusive of 1,Sl4O5l short
tons OF bunker coal supplied to YES
sells in the domestic and foreign
trades, and of the considerable guam
titles OF coal shipped 10 Canadian
lake ports, chiefly on Lake Superior.
The river movement of coal on the
whole appears to have been heavier
than last year, though the ten months
figures for the Monongnhela river,
1896 las short tons show a decrease
from the corresponding 1910 figures
of s,o2O,SSS short tons AZ against this
decrease the figures for Davis Island
Daw show large gain from 1,5SO,2s5
short tons to 2,$S727o short tons; the
figures fer the canal and Ohio Falls
at Louisville show equally large gains
from 1889 short tons ID l,26V,667
short tons. and the figures for the
kanawha river gain from 1.O2O.6iO
short tens to -1,o6734o short tons.
Conditions, however. are by no means
uniform all over the country: Thus,
for instance. the quantities of coal
shipped by rail from Ohio mines for
the ten months of the present year
as reported by the Ohio Coal Traffic
Association, were 14,959,54s short
tons, compared with 17,SSO,6s4 short
tons in 1910. Coal receipts at st.
Louis declined from 7,265,O36 short
tons for the ten months Of 1910 TO
6.O2O,o34 short tons for the ten
months of the present year. The coal
tonnage in the Southwest, including
the states of Missouri, Kansas, Ar
kansas, and Oklahoma, shows con
siderable gain over the coal tonnage