The Oskaloosa herald., 1911-01-26

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in the calendar year 1910. In 1900
the total value of coal and coke ex-
ported (aside from that supplied to
vessels in the foreign trade) was
about % million dollars; 20 years
ago, about million; and 80 years
ago. 2 million. Thus the value OF
coal exported to foreign countries in
1910 is practically double that of 10
years ago, 6 times as much as that 20
years ago, and 22 times as much as
that 80 years ago. The quantity ex,
ported has grown from little over
half million tons in 1880 and about
2 million in 1890 to approximately s
million tons in 1900 and IA million
in 1910, aside from the 6 million tons
supplied to vessels engaged in the
foreign trade.
Coal is thus becoming one of the
important articles of expectation in
the foreign trade of the United States
The important items of expectation
are: cotton, approximately $50 mil
lion dollars; meat and dairy products,
130 million; copper and mineral oil
about "a million each; lumber about
40 million; corn about % million;
wheat, approximately % million;
leather SO million; and tobacco SO mil
lion. While, of course, cotton, meats,
copper, and mineral oil are of much
larger value in their respective to-
tails, coal now exceeds in value of it's
explorations corn, wheat, tobacco,
lumber, leather, and numerous other
articles which have been looked up
on as important factors in our ex-
port trade, and the growth in the ex-
portation of this article, coal, has
been more rapid than that in many
other leading articles of expectation.
About one-third of the As million
dollars worth of coal exported, or say
Is million dollars worth in round
terms, is anthracite; about 81 million
dollars worth bituminous coal, and
about 8 million dollars worth coke.
The growth in the expectation of BIZ
luminous has been of late more rapid
than that of anthracite, the increase
in bituminous in 1910 over 1908 be-
ing more than million dollars, and
in anthracite an increase of about l
million dollars in the stated value as
shown by the export figures published
by the Bureau of Statistics of the De
partment of Commerce and Labor.
The countries to which this coal is
now sent are chiefly, and quite natur-
ally, those comparatively near. OF
the Is million dollars worth of an
thracite coal exported in 1910, all but
about a quarter of a million dollars
worth went to Canada. OF the q
million dollars worth of bituminous
exported in 1910, about Is million dol
lars worth went to Canada; 21a mil
lion dollars worth went to Cuba;
more than l million dollars worth to
other West India Islands; nearly 2
million dollars worth to Mexico; and
something over 3 million dollars worth
to other countries. The list of 9th
er Countries to which this 3 million
dollars Owrth of coal is sent is a
large one, indicating that various and
experimenting with American coal.
The 1909 figures of the Bureau of
Statistics show about one-third mil.
lion dollars sent to Italy, nearly 100
thousand dollars worth to France; 81
thousand dollars worth to Brazil; IS
thousand dollars worth to Chile; "a
thousand dollars worth to Australia;
80 thousand dollars worth to British
East Indies;52 thousand dollars worth
to Morocco, to say nothing of 800
thousand dollars worth sent to the
Philippine Islands, and nearly l mil
lion dollars worth to Panama.
While the value of coal exports is
rapidly increasing, and now forms an
important factor in the foreign trade,
the quantity exported still forms a
very small proportion of the entire
product. The figures of the Bureau
of Statistics show that but about
per cent of the anthracite coal pro-
duced in the United States is export
ed, and that but about per cent of
the bituminous coal production is sent
to foreign countries. Combining the
coal exported with that supplied to
vessels engaged in the foreign trade,
it may be said in very general terms
that approximately per cent of the
product of our coal mines now passes
Out of the country, though its stated
value at the ports from which it
leaves the country is over 10 per cent
of the estimated value of the entire
output at the place of production.
The total coal production of the
country is in round terms about Is
million long tons per annum of an
thracite, and approximately $50 mil
lion of bituminous, the estimated
value at the mines being, of anthra-
cite about 100 million dollars, and of
approximately 400 million
dollars.