The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-07-30
1913 COAL OUTPUT
BREAKS RECORD
Over 57o,ooo,ooo Tons Were Mined in
United States, with Value of $780,
100000, Finds Geologi-
cal Survey.

The production OF coal in the United
States has again broken all previous
records. the output for 1918 being $780,
04S, l26 short tons, which is considerably
more than double the production of 1900
and more than eight times the produc-
tion of 1880 according TO statement
issued by the United States Geological
Survey, from figures compiled by Ed
ward W. Parker, coal statistician. The
value OF the coal mined in 1918 is Civ
en- as S760, 4ss,7s5
Compared with the previous year the
output for 1913 shows an increase OF
IS, 5sl .545 tons, or nearly per cent.
The increased activity indicated by these
figures was well distributed throughout
the 20 coal-producing states. % of which
showed increases and only six decreased
production, the decrease in one OF these
Colorado being due solely to labor
trouble. OF those showing increase, IL
made record yields, and Pennsylvania,
the leading coal state, broke records in
both bituminous and anthracite produc
ton. The states which broke all former
records in coal production were Alabama,
Illinois. Kentucky, Montana, New Mex
leo, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tex
as, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
The largest increase in the production
OF bituminous coal was in Pennsylvania,
where ll,9l5T20 tons was added to the
output of 1912. West Virginia showed
the second largest gain, 4,522,295 tons,
ton Kentucky the third largest gain,
3l26,079 tons, which was also the larg |
est percentage of increase, amounting to
10 per cent, of all the important coal
states. Indiana was fourth, |
Illinois fifth, Ohio sixth, and Alabama |
seventh. While the total increase was
very large as figured in tons, the per
centage is what may be considered nor,
NAL and indicative of healthy indus
trial activity throughout the country.
Coal mining, like all other industries
in the Ohio valley states, was seriously
with by the great floods dur
ing the spring of 1913, and Mr.. Parker
estimates that from 100000 to 10000
BOO tons OF coal would have been added
to the years output but for this dis
ister With no violent fluctuations in
The demand by the blast furnaces, steel
works, and other manufacturing indus
.ries, the demand for coal for those pur-
poses shows only normal increase The
continued decrease in the use of fuel oil
n the mid.continent oil field and the
trike in the Colorado coal mines result
d in an increased output of coal in
he central and southwestern states
With a few exceptions, notably in Illi-
IL ord nErla
anged higher than in former years. so
hat from the producers standpoint the
onditions in 1918 were fairly satisfae-
ory.
The development OF our coal-mining
Industry with reference TO population
some interesting comparisons.
n 1850 the coal output was 7.0ls,lSl
ons. or 0.3 ton for each of the 23,l9l $40
in 1860 the population had \
1creased to about 50,000,000 and the
reduction Of coal to about n 600 900
ons: an average of LAP tons per capita
L the close Of the 10th century the
opulation was 76303. 1857. an increase of
little over 80 per cent as compared
18th 1880, while the production of coal
al increased nearly 400 per cent in the
tme period and averaged 1853 tons for
,ch person. In 1918 the per capita pro-
iction was figured at SIS tons. In adj
ton to this increase in the consumption |
coal. the use in recent years of pc
oleum and natural gas should also be
insidered. h
The coal mines Of the country gave a
nployment in 1918 to an army OF near 3
three quarters of million men-747.. q
a. The average number Of days worked I,
? the hituminous miners in 1918 was =
2. against 223 in 1912. while the aver =,
IL time made in the anthracite mines -
1918 was the best on record-25T dave a
r each man. The average production
r miner in the bituminous mines in in
eased from s21 tons in 1912 70 sss tons M
1913. both being record breaking aver f.
es. while anthracite miners increased hi
cir average from ass tons in 1912 TO q,
, tons in 1913. w