The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-12-23
bOALEXPORTSFROM
UNITED STATES

Il I4 Coal exports from the United States
4 lave trebled in value in the last dozen
Aears. The value of coal passing out
81 continental United States in the
n 4ear 1911 is, in round terms, so million
2 3ollars, compared with 65 million in
Y he Immediately preceding year. The
\ ktates value of coal exported in the 10
months ending with October, 1911, is
3 IA million dollars, that of coke, 8 mil
4 lion, and that of coal supplied to YES
Il sels engaged in the foreign trade, IS
million, making total of So million
siollars and justifying the bureau of
}Astatistics of the department of COM
3merce and labor in it's statement that
lFthe aggregate value of coal passing
Nout OF thu United States in the full
calendar year will approximate so mil
zion dollars
Is The United States ranks third among
y the coal-exporting countries of the
' world, being exceeded in this respect
& by the United Kingdom, and Germany.
4 In 1910, the latest year for which COM
q parisons can be made, the coal ex-
ports in the United Kingdom were val
ued at 179 million dollars, those of
Germany at 104 million, those of the
4 United States, exclusive of bunker
coal. As million, and those of France,
about million dollars. The exports
of the United States have grown far
more rapidly, however, than those of
any of the countries named. Compar-
4 ing the figures of 1910 with those of
/ 1900, exports of coal and coke (exclu-
/ sive of bunker coal) from the United
i States have increased from 23 to 40
i million dollars, or practically 100 per
4 cent: those of Germany increased
4 from 65 to 1O4 million dollars, or so
4 per cent; while those from the United
Kingdom decreased from 1873 to 179
million dollars. Those of France show
little change during the decade, coal
exports fro mthat country having in
creased from Ga to 6 1-S million in
the period from 1900 to 1870
Canada is the principal destination
of the coal exported from the United
States, being credited with s15,126,207
out Of a total of 15,395,S56 worth of
anthracite, and $21 21,51O,6O4 out of a
! total of $2S, 732.SSS worth of bitumin-
#ous coal exported in the 10 months
|. ending with October of the present
year. OF the other markets for bitum-
inous coal from the United States the
principal countries are Cuba, Mexico,
and Panama, each taking between ST.
600 900 and $2,OOO,00O 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 yeal
1911 rank as follows: Cotton, about
500 million dollars; iron and steel
about $50 million dollars; meat and
dairy products, 165 million; copper
about 95 million; wood manufactures
about 80 million, wheat and flour, about
30 million, and coal, including coke
So 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 il we
add to the exports of coal to foreign
countries the value of that sold fol
use on vessels engaged in the foreign
trade the total, 80 million dollars
would closely approach that of wheat
and flour, wood and manufactures, o.
copper
Coal exports still bear a small rela
tion to the domestic production of thai
staple. Of the total production oi
anthracite and bituminous coal IN tht
United States last year, aggregatinf
450 million long tons, about 20 millior
tons left the country, IA million tons