New Britain herald., 1914-07-31
ALL RECORDS BROKEN 
 BY COAL PRODUCTION
:57O,04S,I25 Short Tons Mined in This Country in 1913.

Washington, July 31.-The produc- fion of coal in the United States has ! again broken all previous records. the output for 1913 being 570,048.- ] 126s short tons, which is considera bly l more than double the production of ] 1900 and more than eight times the l Tiroduction of 1880, according to a ] statement just issued by the United States Geological survey. The value fof the coal mined in 1913 is given as SCHOLARSHIPS.
 Compared with the previous year tfre output for 1913 shows an in- < crease of 35,5S1.545 tons, or nearly - per cent. The increased activity Indicated by these figures was we'll dis . tributed throughout the twenty-nine : coal producing states. twenty-three of which showed increases and only six decreased production, the decrease III ssone of these, Colorado, being due, solely to labor trouble. Of those showing increase twelve made record |yields and Pennsylvania, the leading coal state broke records in both bi- luminous and anthracite production. The states which broke all former records, in coal production were Ala
 
 New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Penn sylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia and < West Virginia. ..
 BituminOus in Pennsylvania.
 The largest increase in the produc- tion of bituminous coal was in Penn , sylvania, where 11,915,729 tons was added to the output of 1912. West 5 Virginia showed the second largest gain, .4,522,295 tons. and Kentucky the third largest gain, 3,126,079 tons, ! which was also the largest percentage Of. increas, amounting to 19 per cent, Of all the important coal producing states.
 Indiana was fourth. Illinois fifth. Ohio sixth and Alabama seventh. While the total increase was very large as figured in tons, the percen- tage is what may be considered nor malsand indicative of healthy indus trial activity throughout the coun- try.
 Hindered by Floods.
 Coal mining, like all other indus tries in the Ohio valley states, was seriously interfered with by the great floods during the spring of 1913, and Mr. Parker estimates that from five u have been added to the years output but for this disaster. With no vio- lent fluctuations in the demand by the blast furnaces, steel works and other manufacturing industries the demand for coal for those purposes Shows only normal increase.
 The continued decrease in the use of fuel oil in the mid-continent oil eneld and the strike in the Colorado coal mines resulted in an increased output of coal in the central and the Southwestern states. With a few exceptions, notably in Illinois, Indiana and Oklahoma, values ranged higher than in formal normal years, so that from the producers standpoint the conditions in 1913 were fairly satis- ssfactory. ~
 Developments in Mining.
 The development of our coal mining industry with reference to population presents some interesting compari- sons In 1850 the coal output was 7.- .o1S.181 tons, or 0.3 ton for each of the 23,191,876 inhabitants; in 1880 the population had increased to about gO 900 GOO and the production of coal N about 71,OO0,O 900 tons, an average of TAP tons per capita.
 At fhe close of the nineteenth cen- fury the population was 76,SO3,3S7, an jncrease of a little over 50 per cent. as compared with 1880, while the pro- duction of coal had increased nearly 400 per cent. in the same period and averaged 3.53 tons for each person.
 Per Capita Production.
 Tn 1913 the per capita production vas figured at 5s5 tons. In addition to this increase in the consumption of coal the use in recent years of petro- ieum and natural gas should also be considered.
 1siae coaf mines of the country gave