730 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
Stillson I 
Scammonville 4 
Weir City 8 
Pittsburg 5 
Litchfield 2 
Of these fourteen are operated by steam-power and eleven by horse-power. 
Output of coal, bushels 5,796,877 
No. of miners ............ 817 
Pit-bosses and employes .... .... 215 
Amount mined per each miner, bushels . . . 7,095 
Per day each miner, allowing 150 working days, 
bushels 47 
Amount paid miners $217,000 
Amount paid each miner 205 
The average amount of coal mined by each miner appears small, but this 
calculation is made from the number of miners at work in November, which is 
larger than an average of the six months would be. The business would have 
been one-third larger had the demand warranted it. 
Stripped coal in this district, 235,000 bushels, employing thirty-five teams 
and sixty men; total output in district, 6,031,877 bushels. 
Number actual miners 835 
Engineers, laborers and strippers 277 
Total 1,112 
Operators, superintendents and office men not included. 
Leavenworth County, bushels 953,699 
No. of miners 200 
Other employes 162 
Total 362 
Penitentiary shaft, bushels 504,064 
No. of miners (convicts) 131 
Laborers 15 
Total 146 
There are several smaller mining districts in the State from which I have 
partial returns, and from some I have none. The reports I have combined in the 
following statement from Ellsworth, Russell, Neosho, Franklin, Bourbon and 
Linn Counties. 
No. of bushels of coal mined 458,715 
No. of miners 103 
Laborers. .... ^ .... i ...... . 16 
