World 



The World's Commodities.-]4. Cn.l and Petroleum 



COAL consists of vegetable matter, highly carbonised by the 

 chemical changes it has suffered during the ages it has lain beneath 

 the earth's surface. Anthracite contains frequently 94 per cent, of 

 carbon, bituminous coal 85 per cent., and lignite 70 per cent. The 

 British Coalfields and deposits of iron ore are advantageously situ- 

 ated near seaports, and consequently great industries have sprung up 

 m their neighbourhood. The coal output of the United States has 

 increased about 100,000,000 tons in the last five years ; half the total 

 supply IS Anthracito from the Pennsylvania coalfields, while 55 per 

 cent, of the bituminous coal produced comes from the Appalachian 

 coalfield, fn Canada, coal is mined in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick 

 and British Columbia. The chief coalfields of Germany lie in West- 

 phalia, the lower I-ihinel Silesia, and the Rhenish district near 

 Saarbriicken and Aix la Chapello. In France the departments of Pas 



dc Calais and the Nord supply over 60 per cent, of the output ; the 

 Charleroi mines produce one-third of the B^i^ian supply, and the 

 Ekaterinoslav and Polish mines together yield go per cent, of the 

 increasing output m Russia. The leading countries are largely in^ 

 creasing their output. In 1905 the United States raised 350,821,000 

 tons and the United Kingdom 236,111,000 tons, while in 1906 the 

 United Kingdom's production reached 251,050,000 tons. 



Half the world^s supply of PETROLEUM is drawn from the oil 

 wells of the United States, the chief producing states being California, 

 Ohio, Texas, W. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Indiana, New York nnd 

 Kansas. Russian petroleum comes principally from Baku and Grozny, 

 and new oilfields are being developed in Archangel and Vologda, 

 Other oilfields are worked in Roiimania, Austria-Hungary, Java, 

 Sumatra, Burma, Assam, Canada and Japan. 



THE COAL PRODUCTION OFTHE WORLD 



( in tons) 

 World's total production 790,000,000 tons. 



UNITED STATES 

 3 I-*, 563,000. 



UNITED KINGDOM 

 23Z,-1-£S,000, 



BR.iriDlA AUSTRALIA CANADA OTHER 



9, Zr 7,0 00, 6,S53.000. 6.705,000 COUNTRIES 



0,076,000. 



GERMAN EMPIRE 

 120,616,000. 



FRAKCE 

 33,836,000. 



BELGIUM 

 23.507,000. 



RUSSIA 

 19.318,000. 



FRANCE 

 C,3Z7,103. 



BRITISH EXPORTS OF COAL 



(including Coke and Patent Fuol.) 

 ( in tons,) 



I'm. 





TALY 

 e, 530, 00 



GERMANY 

 6,4^Z&,O0Q. 



Total British Exports 



-18,260,000 tons. 



(not Including coaffor ships 

 in foreign trade.) 



AUSTRIA- 

 HUNGARY 

 I2,73f,000 



JAPAN 

 9.979,000 



BRlTIShf COAL 

 { in tons ) 



SWEDEN 

 3,294-,eQZ. 



RUS5IA 



DENMARK 



[NCftlCELAND f 

 2,719,94^6. GflEtNLANO 



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EGYPT SPAIN NORWAY ARGENTINA BRAZiL 



2.276,312. 2,257,204. 1,515,963 1,448,513.1,018,937. 



UNITED KINGDOM 

 B33,G00. 



COAL MINING POPULATION OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. 



SHIPPED FOR USE 

 OF STEAHf PS 

 17,190,900. 



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WHAT WE 



RAISf 

 232,-128,000. 



WHAT WE WHAT WE 



BURN SELL 



165,603,000, 4-8,250,280. 



UNITED STATES 

 566,260. 



GERMANY 

 470,305. 



FRANCE 

 163,694. 



BELGIUM 

 139,592. 



RUSSIA 

 105,699. 



BR. INDIA 

 92,740. 



JAPAN 

 64.941. 



AUSTRIA 

 66,607. 



SPA[N 

 2l,3BZ. 



AUSTRALIA 

 16,562. 



CANADA 



15,736. 



OTHER 

 COUNTRIES 



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