Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-14

Domestic lake shipments of hard coal
for the 10 months of the present year
are given as s,J22.741 short tons. conn
pared with F3.57o.553 short tons in 1910.
Like shipments of soft coal totaled a.
$685. short tons for the 10 months Of the
! present year, as compared with l6,25l.Sl9
short tons reported for the same period
in 1890 OF this total IA, 2S2, $40 short tons
were shipped from Lake Erie ports and
492,S5f short tons from Lake Michigan
ports OF the coal received by lake dur
ing the present year S,365,3s4 short tons
were LANDED at Lake Superior ports; S,
70fsze short tons at Lake Michigan ports,
and 442h22 short tons at Lake Huron
ports This total is exclusive of i ,Si4
t05l short tons ofgbunken coal supplied TO
vessels in the !, domestic and foreign
trades, and of1the considerable quantities
of coal shipped to. Canadian lake ports,
chiefly on Lake Superior
The River Shipments.
The river movement of coal ON the
whole appears to be heavier than last
year, though the 10 months figures for
| the Monongahela River, 7,4S6,145 short
| tons show q decrease from the cores
ponding 1910 figures of so 1913 short tons.
AS against this decrease the figures for
| Davis Island Dam show large gain
| from 1850, 2s5 short tons to 23S7,270 short
tons the figures for the canal and Ohio
| Falls at Louisville an equally large gain
| from S75252 short tons to 1,260,667 short
! tons, and the figures for the kanawha
| River a gain from 1,020.640 short tons to
| l O67 $40 short tons. Conditions, however,
are by no means uniform all over the
country: Thus, for instance, the quanti-
| ties of coal shipped by rail from Ohio
mines for the 10 months of the present
year as reported By the Ohio Coal Traffic
Association, were IA 959.54s short tons,
compared with SCI short tons in 1919
Coal receipts at st. Louis declined from
| 7,265, 836 short tons for the 10 months of
1910 to 6.020,034 short tons for the Il
months of the present year. The coal
tonnage i'm the Southwest. including the
States of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas
and Oklahoma, shows a considerable
gain over the coal tonnage in 1910, when
owing to labor troubles the operation OF
practically all the mines in that section
ceased, the figures for the seven
months of 1911 being 5.929,9So tons, as
against 455i, 534 tons in 1915
The coke traffic for the 10 months OF
the present year shows a considerable
decline owing to the smaller demand Of
the iron furnaces. The Connellsyille out
put for 43 weeks of the present year is
given as IL, 49, 53 short tons, compared
with L, 4Sf Sill short tons for the cores
bonding period in 1919 the shipments
showing a corresponding decline from
5l2,S20 cars to 999,422 cars The quantities
moved by 10 eastern carriers to the end
of October show a similar decline from
| 49, 998, 472 short tons to 16,364,6S short tons
| The unsatisfactory state of the coke
trade reflects to a large extent similar
conditions in the iron trade. The pro-
duction OF. pig iron for the 10 months OF
the present year, Is, 27oooS long tons, was
l1sgs below the corresponding 1910 figures
though the October output, 2,1e2,1H long
| tons, was slightly in excess OF the out
put in 1910. Q
| Domestic exports of coal for theN i
months of the present year were com
posed of il643.931 long tons of btumip.
Gus and 3,016 i27 long tons of anthracite
| coal. as against e,f05.fs7 long tons oil
| bituminous and 2,4S3, 4l3 long tons of an
| thracte coal exported in 1910 The
quantity of bunker coal supplied TO yes.
sells in the foreign trade at all Amerf
can ports during the same period was o.
57o54s long tons, compared with 5,h7,51
/ long tons in the past year