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. The totalsproduction of coal in {f | ye Sa 
Iowa in 1911 was 7,331,648 short M _ 
tons, valued at $12,663,507, accord- y 
ing to a statement just issued by E. 
_ W. Parker, of the United States 
Geological Survey, compiled from 
data collected by the Federal Sur- 
vey and the lowa Geological Survey. 
The strike of 1910, which stopped 
_ production in most of the mines in 
_ the States of the Middle West for 
the greater part of six months, 
lasted in Iowa for only six weeks, 
and the production in that State in- 
creased over that of the preceding 
year instead of decreasing. In 1911 
the production of Iowa showed a 
decrease of 596,472 short tons in 
quantity, and $1,240,406 in value. 
Prices were fairly well maintained 
and the average for 1911 was only 
2 cents less than that for 1910, 
which was the highest recorded in 
recent years. Iowa is not one of 
the more important manufacturing 
States, its population depending 
chiefly upon agriculture, and the 
markets for its coal, outside of that 
taken by the railroads, are largely 
in rural communities and cities of 
moderate size. Most of the coal 
produced comes from mines with 
capacities ranging from 50,000 to 
150,000 tons. The growth of the 
coal-mining industry is fairly indi- 
eative of the increase and prosperity 
_ of the population: It has been rela- 
tively steady, without violent fluc- 
tuations. The number of men em- 
ployed in the mines of Iowa in 1911 
was 16,599, who worked an average 
of 203 days and produced an aver- 
age of 441.7 tons. The time lost by 
reason of strikes was about 0.7 per 
cent. of the time made and did not 
affect the total production. 
In Iowa, as in the other States of 
the Interior Province, shooting coal 
off the solid is practiced to an un- 
fortunate degree. Of the 6,171,995 
tons for which the mining methods 
were reported to the Geological Sur- 
vey, the quantity shot off the solid 
was 5,017,108 short tons, or 81.3 per 
cent. 
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Theadore Friebus at B. F. Keith’s. ~ = 
not appeared in Boston for three author of “‘As Ye Sow.” Aside 
Theodore Friebus, the most popu- years, since he _ presented “The from the return of Mr. Friebus, 
lar heavy man who ever appeared Fight In the Lighthouse’’ at B. F. the week will also be notable 
in stock in Boston, is known to Keath’s. For his second vaudeville for the first appearance in Boston 
ton of Kate Elinore and Sam Wil- 
liams in their new travesty, ‘‘The 
Hunter and the Huntress.’’ This is 
appearance Mr. Friebus has chosen 
thousands of theatregoers all over ¢! 
a vehicle of an entirely different 
New England, through his long as- 
sociation with the Boston Theatre 
and Castle square stock companies. 
Mr. Friebus has just closed a highly 
successful season at the Academy of 
music in New York City, and has 
type, a bright farce comedy, bearing 
the title of ‘‘Peter Peckter’s Pre- 
decessor.’’ This sketch is the work 
of Rev. ohnh Snyder, known to 
playgoers all over America as the 
one of the funniest characters Miss 
Elinore ever created, and introduces 
her in a new light to vaudeville 
patrons. 
