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The dwellings are as follows : 



Provinces. 1891. 1901. 



Britisli Columbia 20,016 38,000 



Manitoba 30,790 47, 903 



New Brunswick 54.7iS 58,227 



Nova Scotia 79,io2 85,032 



Ontario 406,946 440,419 



PrinGe Edward Island 18,389 18,530 



Ouebe^c 246,644 287,533 



Territories 14,129 28,300 



The returns for extreme northern 

 portions of Quebec and Ontario and for 

 the -unorganized territories of Atha- 

 basca, Franklin, Keewatin, MacKenzie, 

 Ungava, and Yukon have not been 

 received. 



COAL IN THE UNITED STATES 



THE output of coal in the United 

 States for 1900 for the second 

 successive year surpassed the output of 

 Great Britain during the same period. 

 Mr. Edward W. Parker, statistician of 

 theU. S. Geological Survey, reports the 

 total output in 1 900 in the United States 

 as 267,542,444 short tons, an increase 

 over the preceding year of 13,802,452 

 tons, or a little more than 5 per cent. 

 The output in Great Britain for the 

 year w^as 15,000,000 short tons less. 

 West Virginia showed the largest in- 

 crease in tonnage, her output exceeding 

 2 1 ,000,000 tons for the first time. Ohio 

 showed the next largest increase, and 

 Alabama, Arkansas, the Indian Terri- 

 tory, Michigan, and Utah also made 

 very notable gains. The output in 

 Kansas increased by 600,000 tons, or 16 

 per cent, and that of Kentucky by 

 575,000 tons, or 12 per cent. 



The following table, prepared by Mr. 

 Parker, gives the production and value 

 of coal (in short tons) in the different 

 States in 1900: 



Production. Value. 



Alabama 8,393,385 19,745,722 



Arkansas 1,441,345 1,653,818 



California 171,708 523,231 



Colorado 5,232,643 5,848,339 



Georgia and North Car- 

 olina 333,291 370,022 



Illinois 25, 153,929 22,529,665 



Production. Value. 



Indiana 6,449,645 |6, 645, 739 



Indian Territory' 1,918,572 2,782,838 



Iowa 5,237,634 7,202,986 



Kansas 4,453, 107 5,368,642 



Kentucky 5,181,917 4,730,698 



Maryland 4,024,688 3,927,381 



Michigan 849,455 1,259,683 



Missouri 3,269,491 4,015,980 



Montana. • 1,661,775 2,713,707 



New Mexico 1,299,099 1,775,570 



North Dakota 129,883 158,358 



Ohio 19,105,408 19,403,362 



Oregon 58,864 220,001 



Pennsylvania : 



Anthracite 57,107,660 82,993,471 



Bituminous . ; 79,616,346 77,166,158 



Tennessee 3, 731,617 4,215,080 



Texas 968,373 1,581,914 



Utah 1,146,277 1,445,415 



Virgiiiia 2,137,007 1,757,525 



Washington. 2,474,093 4,700,068 



West Virginia 21,980,430 17,698,734 



Wyoming 4,014,602 5,457,953 



Adolf Erik Nofdensfcjold, the first and 

 only explorerto accomplish the Northeast 

 Passage, died at his home, in Stockholm, 

 on Tuesday, August 13. Nordenskjold 

 was born 69 years ago at Helsingfors, 

 the capital of Finland. He had but 

 reached the age of manhood when he 

 fell under the suspicion of the Russian 

 authorities and was compelled to leave 

 the countr3^ He settled in Sweden and 

 soon became interested in Arctic explo- 

 ration. Nordenskjold had already spent 

 20 years adding to the maps of Greenland, 

 Spitzbergen, and the Kara Sea, which 

 he was one of the first to penetrate, when 

 he determined to reach Bering Strait 

 by crawling around the headlands and 

 islands of northern Asia. Without any 

 hindrance he had arrived almost in sight 

 of the strait when the tantalizing ice 

 closed in before him, and for ten months 

 his ship was held motionless. Then the 

 ice mass opened and allowed the Vega 

 to sail the few remaining miles to and 

 through the strait and thus to complete 

 the Northeast Passage (1879). He did 

 a great deal to promote navigation along 

 the north coast of Siberia and to lead 

 commerce to the mouths of the great 

 Siberian rivers — Obi, Yenisei, and Lena. 



