The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
MOVEMENTS OF COAL AND COKE IN 1910 Illinois Field Has Been Re- stricted by Strike OTHER FIELDS ACTIVE Total Tonnage Handled of Anthracite and Bituminous Coal Exceeds
 That of Any Year
 Except 1907
OTHER FIELDS ACTIVE

I and coke are discussed in the review of l internal commerce for the past year. about to be published by the Bureau of 1 Statistics of the department of commerce
 and Labor as part of the December sum-
 mary of commerce and finance.
 l While labor difficulties in the Illinois
 and the southwestern fields resulted in a
 shrlnkage of output and tonnage within the territory affected, they also caused larger movements of coal from the con l tiguous fields as well as an increased de-
 lnand for liquid fuel. the consumption of
 which in the southwest and southern
 California made rapid strides during the
 past year. In particular, the effecrs of
 the Illinois strike may be seen in tho lar ger tonnage figures for the more import
 ant eastern coal-carrying railroads.
 l Shipments during the past year of an thracite coal from eastern producing ter ritory, 64,9O5,726 long tons, exceeded those l for the two previous years. This total
 was exceeded only once, in 1907, the year
 following the great anthracite strike,
 when the years shipments amounted to
 e1,109, ,393 long tons In view of the re-
 stricted area and increasing cost of pro-
 ducton of anthracite coal, the general opinion is that no decided increase of the supply of this class of coal is to be ex-
 rected in the Future. Almost one-fourth
 of the total shipped, viz. 15,O36.o22 long | tons, was handled in and around New
 York for shipments to New York city proper jor to other Atlantic ports. Coast wise shipments of anthracite from Phiia- l delphia during the year totaled 19S0,SS0 long tons, while coastwise shipments from l Baltimore are reported as 272,695 long tons i The lake movement of anthracite from Lake Erie ports, mainly Buffalo, to Lake
 Michigan and Lake Superior ports, 4,170,-
 SIS short tons, was about 15 per cent
 heavied than in 1909.
 The bituminous coal movement in the
 east, as reported by eight leading coai-
 carrying roads, totaled 120,214S91 Short
 tons, or about IS per cent In excess of I the 1909 total, and closely approximated | the record movement for 1907. AS stated | above the gains recorded by the eastern
 carriers were due in part to the greater demand for eastern coal in the territory
 normally tributary to the Illinois coal field.
 The 1910 coastwise shipments of soft | coal from the principal Atlantic ports totaled 26, 121, PA long tons, compared
 with 24111, ,4SS long tons shipped the year
 before and the 1907 shipments of 24-
 5s4,619 long tons. Of the total 1910 coast | wise shipments of soft ,coal II, ,2S9, ,O95 long tons are credited to New York, A.
 7oo,174 long tons to Philadelphia. $780, 120 long tons to Baltimore, 2,S17,701 long tons to Newport News, and S,534. .134 long tons to Norfolk The largest relative in-
 crease as compared with the 1909 total is shown by Norfolk, the gain at this port being due chiefly to the larger oper-
 ations at the Sewells Point piers of the Virginian railway.
 The coal tonnage originating during the l year in the southwestern field, as stated l by the Southwestern Interstate Coal Op- | orators association (whose reports cover | by far the larger part of coal operations
 in the states Of Missouri, Kansas and l Oklahoma), was in the neighborhood of | S,SOO,O00 tons, compared with 13110,S16 tons reported for the preceding year. This l shortage was caused by the suspension | of operations in the association mines I from April to September Ia of the past | year.
 l The river movement of coal during the I past year does not show the same favor- l able ueEelOpINtHt, OWius iidiuiy tO tHo 1 unsatisfactory stage of the water dur l ing part of the year on some of the | leading waterways. The 1910 shipments 1 by way of the Monongahela river were | 9iGo, 695 short tons, as compared with l 9,736 666 short tons In 1909. The coal l movement by way of Davis island dam l was 1,77476o short tons, as against D. | 4s6 ITO short tons during the preceding | year. The coal movements on the Great
 Kanawha river, 1,229,66O short tons. and | at Louisville, over the canal and falls l of the Ohio river S9o,317 short tons-to 1 mention only some of the more import ant river movements-were also smaller l in volume than the year before
 | The coke movement for the year from
 the Connelsville district is reported as | 18,6S9, ,722 short tons, figure in excess of l the totals for the preceding two years. | but smaller than the shipments reported 1 for 1906 and 1907. The movement during l the latter part of the year was checked | by the curtailment3 of output of the iron l furnaces, which became more pronounced