The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-12-05

! in the commonwealth, fully COS per
cent being shipped in from elsewhere.
The reason for this condition is that
in eastern Missouri, including st,
Louis, coal imported from Illinois and
Kentucky sells cheaper than the State
article, due chiefly to the cost of
transportation. A similar condition,
relating to the coal of Arkansas and
Kansas, supplies to southwest Mis-
souri,.
! OF the annual coal output of Mis-
souri, mines, 55 per cent is used by the
industries and households of the
State; 81 per cent by railroads; and
eight per cent is shipped to other
States, namely, to Colorado, Iowa,
! Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The
same percentage of consumption APP
plies to all coal shipped into Missouri
from other States.
The annual bituminous coal con-
sumption of the State, all demands,
is placed at 14,250,000 tons. These
figures include half anthracite coal
{ shipped in from Arkansas, Oklahoma
and other points. In addition, Penn
sylvania annually supplies Missouri
with 100000 tons Of pure anthracite
coal, and this total, combined with the
total of soft and the small quantity
of semi-hard coal already referred to,
constitutes the total yearly consump-
ton Of 14,450,000 tons.
Of the 14,250,000 tons of soft and
semi-anthracite coal consumed in
Missouri in 1918, nearly 100000
tons were used for manufacturing and
other industrial purposes; 100000
tons by the households of the State;
100000 tons by transportation cor
porations; 1,055,000 tons by electri-
cal utilities; $4,000 tons by gas man
ufacturing companies; 100000 tons in
the manufacture of coke and other
products, and 10000 tons at Mis-
souri, mines for steam, power and
heating, states the Missouri Bureau
of Labor Statistics bulletin.
Other States supplied Missouri in
1918 with a total of 9,240,000 tons of
soft and hard coal, divided at follows
From Illinois, 100000 tons; from
Iowa, 100000 tons; from Indiana, co.
900 tons; from Kentucky, $4,000 tons;
from Kansas, 100000 tons; from Ar
kansas, 255,000 tons; from Oklahoma,
100000 tons; from Pennsylvania, 49,
900 tons of bituminous and 100000
of anthracite; from Tennessee, 5000
tons; and from West Virginia, $4,000
tons. No coke consumption figures
are embraced.
The 1918 Missouri output of coal
totaled 100000 tons. There was sold
to the railroads that year 100000
tons of Missouri coal; the shipments
that year to outside States totaled
100000 tons, and the industries and
households of Missouri consumed g.
10000 tons.
| To detail further what became of the
3,110,000 tons of the 1918 output Of
Missouri coal charged up to the indus
tries and households of the State, 1872
900 tons were used at mines for steam
and heating purposes; local sales
around mines Appropriated $4,000
tons, and there was shipped to points
in Missouri, for domestic consumption,
1885,, 900 tons.
The 1917 output of Missouri coal
totaled nearly the same as that of
1913, and, therefore, the above dis
/ tribution of Missouri coal also read
lily applies to that year.
/ Of the 100000 tons of 1918 coal
from Missouri mines shipped to other
States, Kansas took 100000 tons; Ok
4 lahoma, 10000 tons; Colorado, 1000
tons; Iowa, $4,000 tons, and Nebraska,
/ 10000 tons.