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THE IBKIGATION AGE. 



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a high level of prices, which is due mainly to the growth 

 of cities, and farmers are enjoying the greatest money 

 making period that they have ever known. Such a state 

 of affairs must naturally continue so long as the non- 

 producing element develops faster than the agricultural 

 class. 



Crops are uniformly good, with the exception of 

 winter wheat, which falls below the average owing to 

 winter killing in certain localities. The cotton states 

 report an encouraging outlook, and in the rest of the 

 country there will be a large output of grain, tobacco, 

 live stock and fruit, as well as many commodities of 

 less importance but which tell their story of diversified 

 and progressive farming. There is a large distribution 

 of merchandise, with clear evidence that the buying is 

 only proportionate to the consumptive demands of the 

 public. The steel industry continues 'to lead all other 

 interests in the extent of its gains over last year's volume 

 of business. 



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GOOD COAL OUTPUT. 



The production of coal in Tennessee 

 in 1911 was 6,433,158 short tons, valued 

 at $7,209,734, according to a statement 

 by Edward W. Parker, just made 

 public by the United States Geological 

 Survey. This was a decrease from the 

 output of 7,121,380 short tons, valued 

 at $7,925,350, in 1910, of 9.66 per cent 

 in quantity and 9 per cent in value. 

 Notwithstanding this rather notable 

 decline, the output in 1911 was larger 

 than that of 1909 and exceeded that 

 of any preceding year except 1907. In 

 a preliminary review of the coal trade 

 of 1911 published in the closing wevk 

 of that year, Mr. Parker stated that 

 the production of Tennessee, as of 

 Alabama, was about 10 per cent less 

 than in 1910. The reliability of the 

 information on which these estimates 

 were based is attested by the com- 

 plete returns. The lessened produc- 

 tion in 1911 is not indicative of any 

 decline in the coal-mining industry of 

 the state, for comparison with a series 

 of preceding years shows that the 

 tonnage was normal, and there was a 

 small advance in the average price. 

 Tennessee, in common with the other 

 states of the Appalachian region, 

 benefited by the longf,- strike among 

 the miners in the Mississippi Valley 

 States in the spring Spd summer of 



1910, and productionr-fr'as unusually 

 stimulated. The dect|%jeed tonnage in 

 1911 was simply a r^iJBrn to normal 

 conditions. 



Nearly 25 per cent of the entire de- 

 crease was in the quantity of coal 

 made into coke, which declined from 

 615,538 tons in 1910 to 461,963 tons in 



1911. The quantity of coal made into 

 coke represents considerably less 

 than 10 per cent of the total output. 

 In 1911 the number of men employed 

 in the Tennessee mines was 10,703. 

 The average production for each em- 

 ploye was 601 tons; the average daily 

 production per man was 2.59 tons. 



Tennessee's record with regard to 

 the methods employed in the mining 

 or coal is fair. Operators producing 

 about 80 per cent of the total output 

 in 1911 reported that 43.9 per cent of 

 their total production was mined by 

 hand, 15.6 per cent was undercut by 

 machines, and 40.5 per cent was shot 

 from the solid. It may be inferred, 

 therefore, that nearly 60 per cent of 

 the coal produced was mined before 

 being shot or wedged down. 

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