The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-12-08
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Are the Shipments of An
thracite Coal for the
Year Ending

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during the ten months Of the present
year, are shown by the figures of
internal commerce. just made pub
lie by the BureaI OF Statistics OF the
department Of Commerce and Labor.
Anthracite coal shipments during
o. tober from eastern producing ter
ritory aggregated 6.26s.17s long tons.
a total exceeded only once during
the present year and once before in
March, 1909. The total for the ten
months, $685., 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 Balti-
more, aggregated 1s523.264 long tons,
compared with 1,417.111 long tons IN
october, 1910. The quantities of an
thracite coal shipped at these ports
during the ten months OF the present
year totaled 13. 735, OBS long tons, COM
pared with 12,s49,394 long tons in
1910.
The combined soft coal tonnage Of
ten eastern railroads for October is
given as 13344,667 short tons. com
pared with 12,s63, 9S4 short tons in
october, 1910. The same carriers
report the soft coal tonnage for the
ten months of the present year as
I113, 3s1 800 short tons, as against
liz, 294,O31 short tons for the, ten
months OF the last year. A similar
increase is shown by the October and
Iten-month figures of bituminous coal
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coal ports The total for the month,
2, 367, 1884 long tons. shows a 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
4 year are reported by all the ports
except Newport News, the increase
being especially heavy in the case OF
NorfoIk. The combined ten months
figures for the five ports were 22,-
I3I6.2s6 long tons, as against 21,50s,-
79s long tons. in 1909.
Domestic lake shipments Of hard
coal for the ten months of the pres
ent year, given as 3,722,74l short tons.
compared with 3,570,553 short tons in
1910. Like shipments of soft coal
totaIted 14,9S6,653 short tons for the
ten months of the present year, as
compared with 16,251,S1 short tons
reported for the same period in 1910.
OF this total 1922, $40 short tons were
shipped from Lake Erie ports and
492, 351 short tons from Lake Mich
lIigan ports OF the coal received by
lake during the present year S,365,3s4
short tons were landed at Lake SUI
perfor ports, 5,7O4,57O short tons a.
Lake Michigan ports, and 442,522
short tons at Lake Huron ports. THIS
total is exclusive OF 1,S14O5l short
tons of bunker coal supplied to yes
sells in the domestic and foreign
trades, and Of the considerable guam
titles of coal shipped to 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 Monongahela river,
7,4S6,145 short tons show a decrease
from the corresponding 1910 figures
of 5000, 1888 short tons. As against this
decrease the figures for Davis Island
Daw show a large gain from 1,580,295
short tons to 2,3s7.27O short tons; the
figures for the canal and Ohio Falls
at Louisville show equally large gains
from 7S5.252 short tons to 1,26o,667
short tons. and the figures for the
Kanawha river a gain from 1,O2o,6iO
short tons to 1.O6T.S4 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,S8O,664 short
tons in 1910. coar receipts at st.
Louis declined from 7,265,o36 short
tons for the ten months of 1910 to-
5000, O84 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 a con-
siderable gain over the coal tonnage
in 1910, when owing to labor troubles
the operation of practically all the
mines in that section ceased. the fig-
If. 1911