254 HISTORY OF THE GRANGE MOVEMENT; OR, 



heartless greed, on the part of the corporations, that 

 we have seen in the management of the railroads. 



Coal is found in twenty of the States and Territories 

 of the Union. According to the census of 1870, the 

 product for that year was as follows : 



Tons of Tons of 



JJituminous Anthr.icito 



Coal. Coal. 



Alabama, : 11,000 



Colorado, 4,500 



Illinois, 2,624,163 



Indiana, 437,670 



Iowa, 263,487 



Kansas, 32,938 



Kentucky, 150,582 



Maryland, 1,819,824 



Michigan, 28,150 



Missouri, 621,930 



Nebraska, 1,425 



Ohio, 2,527,285 



Pennsylvania, 7,798,518 15,650,275 



Rhode Island, 14,000 



Tennessee, 133,418 



Utah, 5,800 



Virginia 61,803 



"Washington, 17,Si4 



West Virginia, 608,878 



"Wyoming, 50,000 



Total Product of the United States...l7,199,415 15,664,275 



The capital employed in the production of coal 

 amounted, in 1870, to $110,008,029. 



By the above table it will be seen that the amount 

 of anthracite coal is but 1,535,140 tons less than the 

 total product of bituminous coal. The latter is divided 

 among nineteen States and Territories ; the former is 

 almost exclusively confined to the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania. The bituminous coal is used principally in the 

 West, but the anthracite is the fuel of the Middle and 



