Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1912-01-05
COAL SHIPMENTS
UNITED STATES

| Goal exports from the United States
have trebled in value in the last doz-
en- years. The value of coal passing
out continental United States in the
year 1911, is in round numbers, so
million dollars, compared with 65
million in the Immediately preceding
year. The stated value of coal ex-
ported In the ten months ending with
October, 1911, is id million dollars ;
that of coke, 3 million, and that of
coal supplied to vessels engaged in
the foreign trade, 1S million, making
total of 65 million dollars and JUS
tifying the Bureau of Statistics of
the Department of Commerce and La
Dor in its statement that the aggre-
gate value of coal passing out of the
United States in the full calendar
year will approximate so million dol
| lars.
The United States ranks third
among the coal exporting countries of
the world, being exceeded in this re-
spect by the United Kingdom and
Germany. In 1910, the latest year
for which comparisons car, be made.
the cocl exports of the Unitsd King
dom were valued at ITO million dol
lars; those of Germany at 10 million
those of the United States, exclusive
of bukner coal, 45 million, and those
of France, about 6 million dollars.
| The exports of the United States
have grown far more rapidly, howev-
er, 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 Safes have in
creased from % to 45 million dollars,
or practically one hundred per cent !;
those of Germany increased from 65
to 104 million dollars, or sixty per
cent; while those from the United
| Kingdom decreased from 1873 to ITO
million dollars. Those ofsFrance show
little change during the decade, coal
exports from that country having in
| creased from six and quarter to six
and third million in the period from
1900 to 1910.
Canada is the principal destination
of the coal exported from the United
States, being credited with SIS, 126,
207 out of total of $15, 1886, 1856
worth of anthracite, and $612, So
64O out of a total of $2S, 1872, 1888
worth of bituminous coal cxpol ted in
the ten months ending with October
of the present year. OF the other
markets for bitumnious coal from
the United States the principal coun-
tries are Cuba, Mexico, and Pan anna,
each taking between 81, 900, 600 and
So, 900, 600 worth annually Canada
is also the largest market for our ex-
ported coke having received last year
about three-fourths of the entire ex-
ports, while practically all the re-
maindcr went to Mexico.
Coal now ranks seventh among the
leading articles of expectation in the
foreign commerce of the country. So
far as ascertainable from the 10
months figures now available in the
Bureau of Statistics, the principal
articles exported from the United
States in the calendar year 1911 rank
about as follows: cotton, about 500
million dollars; iron and steel, about
$50 million dollars; meat and dairy
products, 165 million; copper, about
95 million; wood manufactures. about
80 million; wheat and flour, about 90
million; and coal, including coke, So
million dollars. Coal in the value of
its exports exceeds such important
articles as cotton manufactures, to-
bacco. leather, agricultural imple-
ments, corn and cotton seed oil while
if we add to the exports of coal to
foreign countries the value of that
sold for use on vessels engaged in the
foreign trade the total, so million
dollars, would closely approach that
of wheat and flour, wool manufac-
lures, or copper.
Coal exports still bear small re-
lation to the domestic production of
that staple. OF the total production
of anthracite and bituminous coal in
the United States last year aggregat-
ing $50 million long tons, about 20
million tons left the country, Id mil
lion tons being consigned to foreign
countries and about 6 million being
for use on vessels engaged in the
foeign trade. Of anthracite the pro-
duction last year was rs million tons,
the exports 8 million; and of bitumi-
nous coal the production last year was
3T2 million tons and the exports, IN
GLIDING the six million tons of bunk
or coal nhnuL II million tonl