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miners, 280,638, only 9 per cent., were paid less than $1.75 per day; 

 20 per cent, were paid less than $2.00 per day; 58 per cent, were paid 

 less than $2.50 per day; and 95 per cent, were paid less than $3.50 per 

 day. The rates of pay for anthracite coal mining (employing 69,691 

 men) were very much lower than the rates for bituminous coal mining. 

 Thirt3^-one per cent, of the anthracite coal miners received less than 

 $1.75 per day; 46 per cent, received less than $2.00 per day; 74 per 

 cent, received less than $2.50 per day; and 95 per cent, received less than 

 $3.50 per day. 



The production of iron ore involved the emplo3Tnent of 38,851 men. 

 These were paid less than $1.75 in 22 per cent, of the cases, less than 

 $2,00 in 37 per cent, of the cases, less than $2.50 in 78 per cent, of the 

 cases, and less than $3.50 in 99 per cent, of the cases. 



Among the 36,142 wage-earners engaged in gold and silver mining, 

 2 per cent, were paid less than $1.75; 8 per cent, were paid less than 

 $2.50; and 67 per cent, were paid less than $3.50, There is thus a 

 marked variation in the wage rates paid for mining in the different 

 mining industries. The fairest comparison, if a comparison between 

 wages in manufacturing and wages in mining industries is to be made, 

 must recognize the geographical wage variations. Most of the wages 

 from manufacturing industries relate to the North Atlantic and the 

 North Central States. An examination of the figures for mining shows 

 that the wage rates paid in these states are considerably lower than the 

 wage rates in the Western States, where smelting and refining are the 

 chief mining industries. Two fifths of the wage-earners employed in 

 mines and quarries in the United States were in the North Atlantic 

 States; a third were in the North Central States; and only an eighth 

 were in the "Western States. The great bulk of the mining work la 

 therefore carried on in the North Central States, 



The wages in the North Atlantic Division relate to coal mining, 

 chiefly. They are somewhat lower than the wages reported for the 

 North Central States, as appears in the following comparison : 



Although these figures for mines and quarries are so far out of date 

 that no well-marked conckisions may be based on them, they indicate 

 that in the mining industry wage rates are comparatively similar to the 

 rates in the manufacturing industries in like geographical sections. 



