The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-12-28
COAL EXPECTATIONS FROM THE
UNITED STATES AND OTHER
LEADING COUNTRIES

Coal experts from the United Sts ties
have trabled in value in the last doz-
en- years. The value of Coal passing
out of continental United States in. the
year 1911 Is, lin round terms. so mil
lion dollars, compared with 65 million
in the Immediately proceeding year,
The stated value of ccal exported in
the 10 months ending with October
1911, is A million dollars, that of
coke, million, and that Of coal sup
Piled to vessels engaged in the foreign
trade, Is million, making total of
65 million dollsrs and justifying the
Bureau Of Statistics of the Department
of Commerce and Labor in its site
ment that the aggregate value of coal
passing cut of the United States in
the full calendar year will approximate
so million dollars.
The United States ranks third a.
mong the coal-exporting countries of
the world, being exceeded in this res
pect by the United Kingdom, and Ger
many. In 1910, the latest yesr for
which comparisons can be made, the
coal exports of the United Kingdom
were valued at 179 million doll2rs,
those of Germany at 104 million, those
Of the United States, exclusive of
bunker coal, 45 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
Comparing the figures of 1910 with
those of 1900, exports of coal and coke
Exclusive of bunker coal) from the
United States have increased from 23
to As million dollars, or practically
100 per cent, those of Germany in
creased from 65 to 104 million dollars
or 60 per cent while those from the
United Kingdom decreased from 1873
to 179 million dollars. These of
France show little change during the
decade, coal exports from that coun-
try having increased from 6A to G.
l." mi!lon in the period from 1900 to
1910. srass ssa d.
Canada is the principal destination
Of the coal exported from the United
States, being credited with SIS, ,2O7
out Of total of $15,3 1886, 1856 worth of
anthracite and $21, ,51O,6O4 out Of tot
al of $28,732,SSS worth of bituminous
coal exported in the 10 months end
ing with October of the present year
OF the other markets for bituminous
coal from the United Ststes the prin-
Opal countries are Cuba, Mexico, and
Panama, each taking between 81 ,OOO,-
600 and $2,000,000 worth annually. Can
ada is also the largest market for our
exported coke, having received last yes r
about three-fourths of the entire ex-
ports, while practically all the rem2in-
der went to Mexico.
Coal now ranks seventh among the
leading articles of expectation in the
foreign commerce of the country. So
faf as ascertainable from the 10
m'bnths' fsa4es NOV available in the
BurNaG. sof Statistics, the ih-incipal art
icles or groups OF articles exported
from the United States in the calen-
dar year 1911 rank about as follows:
cotton, about 500 million doll: RS; iron
and steel, about $50 million dollars;
meat and dairy products, 1866 million
dollars; copper, about 95 million:
wood manufactures, about so million;
wheat and flour, about 80 million, and
coal, including coke, So million dollars.
Coal In the value Of its exports ex-
ceeds such important articles as cot
ton manufactures, tobacco, leather, ag-
ricultural impliments, corn, and cot
ton seed oil; while il we add to the ex-)
ports of coal to foreign countries the
value Of that sold for use on vessels
engaged in the foreign trade the total
30 million dollars. would closely ap-
proach that Of wheat and flour. wood
manufactures, or copper.
Coal exports stilf bear a small rela-
ton to the domestic production of that
staple. OF the total production of an
thracite and bituminous coal in the
United States last year. aggregating
$50 million long tons, about 20 million
tons left the country, IA million tons
being consigned to foreign countries
and about 6 million being for use on
vesslea engaged in the foreign trade.