The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-09-13
INCREASED PRODUCTION OF AN
THRACTTE.
Pennsylvania's Output in 1910 Larg-
est in History With One Excep-
tiOu

Pennsylvania's Output in 1910 Larg-
est in History With One Excep-
ton.
Except that of the boom - year,
| 1907, the production of anthracite in
| Pennsylvania in 1910 was the larg-
| est in the history of the industry.
according to E. w. Parker, coal sta
tistician of the United States Geo
| logical Survey. The quantity pro-
| duced in 1910 was 75,433,346 long
| tons, an increase over 1909 of g.
| 05S,997 long tons, the value increas-
| ing from 9,415,S47 in 1909 to
$160. 0.275,3O2 in 1910. The produc-
tion in 1910 was within almost ex-
actly 100000 long tons of the max
imum record for 1907, when the
output amounted to 76,432,421
long tons. The value of the pro-
duct in 1907 exceeded that of 1910
by $3,30S,754. The average price
! per ton at the mines in 1910 was
$2.12, against $2.06 in 1900, $2.13
in 1908, and $2.14 in 1907.
| Practical Coal Conservation.
Through the recent invention,
says Mr.. Parker, of CRATES and fur
naces adapted to the use of small
sizes of anthracite, and owing to the
higher prices of the prepared sizes,
the percentage of waste has been
reduced to a minimum. Buck
! wheat" rice barley" and even
culm are now important steam-rais-
| ing fuels, particularly in hotels,
| apartment houses, and large office
| buildings in the cities of the East,
where smoke-inhibiting ordinances
are in force. An object lesson in
! M npfin fz Co.
nished and to the credit of the
operators in the anthracite region
be it said that it was put into effect
! a number of years before the agita-
ton over the conservation of natur-
al resources began. Not only are
the small sizes produced in the pres
ent mining operations sold and uti-
| lized, but the unsightly culm banks
which blotted the landscape in the
| anthracite region are fast disap-
| pearing as the usable coal is being
| recovered from them by washeries.
or the total production in 1910,
| 4, ,629 tons were recovered from
the old culm banks, and 81, 1913 tons
| were recovered by dredges from the
bed of Susquehanna River
The neutrality-suspicious. indus
try was without any marked feat
ures during the year. The operators
and miners had in 1909 renewed
by mutual agreement for a third
term of three years the awards of
the Anthracite Commission that set
tied the great strike of 1902, and
| while there were a few temporary
shut-downs because of labor difficult
ties, there was only one in which the
idleness extended over 12 days, and
most of them were from one day to
one week. The board of concilia-
ton created by the Anthracite Com
mission, consisting of six members,
three representing the operators and
three representing the miners, has
done exemplary service in bringing
the employers and employees into
harmonious relations and has de-
monstrated the wisdom and practical
bility of conciliatory methods of
settling labor disputes.
Utilizing the Consumers Cellars.
The policy adopted several years
ago by the operators, of allowing
discounts from the circular prices
for coal purchased in the spring and
early summer months, continues to
work satisfactorily. The discounts
allowed on domestic sizes are so
cents a ton in April, 40 cents a ton
in May, 80 cents in June, 20 cents in
July, and 10 cents in August, the
circular prices being restored in
| September. The inducements thus
offered to make the cellars of con-
sumers the storage places for the
winter supplies of fuel has had a
notably steadying influence on the
trade and gives steady employment
to the miners throughout the year.
against the conditions of rush work
in winter and much idleness in sum-
mer prevailing before the rule was
put into effect.
Fatalities i'm the Mines.
According to statement made to
the United States Bureau of Mines
by Mr.. James e. Roderick, chief of
the department of mines of Pennsyl-
vania, there were COL fatal and l.
$50 non-fatal accidents in the an
thracite mines in 1910. This was
an increase of "a in the number of
fatal accidents and of Is in the
number of men injured as compared
with 1909, when SGT men were kill
ed and l 1,035 injured AS the pro-
duction in 1910 amounted to 75,-
433,246 long tons, the quantity of
coal mined for each life lost was
125,513 long tons against 126,644
long tons in 1900. The death rate
per thousand employees in 1900
was S.55, against 3.31 in 1909.