The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 10, March 24, 1894 Page: 7
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THE TEXAS MINER.
COAL PRODUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1893.
The Engineering and Mining Journal is enabled, through the
hearty co-operation of state inspectors of mines and various state
officials and the willing assistance of the operators themselves, to
present at this early date complete returns of the coal production
of the United States during 1893. These statistics have been
collected for the forthcoming volume of "The Mineral Industry,"
and are in nearly every case official and authoritative. Such
small corrections as may be necessary when the last returns are
in will be trifling and have no appreciable effect upon the total,
and can affect only two states from which our returns are now
being received.
TONS OF 2,000 LBS.
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
North Dakota
Georgia
Indiana
Indian Territory
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland
Michigan
Missouri
Montana
New Mexico
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania—
Bituminous
1892.
5,314,227
739,300
131,431
3,771,234
240,000
105,000
4,494,811
1,204,765
17,949,989
3,820,000
2,794,000
3,020,050
3,036,283
70,000
3,017,285
648,701
434,291
14,599,908
34,720
46,576,576
1893.
,170,042
750,000
167,219
,947,056
325,000
372,191
,588,000
,229,562
,955,000
,790,000
,089,3t;0
,290,032
,727,079
75,000
,285,000
783,300
457,045
521,800
50,000
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45,225,881
TONS OF2,000 LBS.
Pennsylvania—
Anthracite
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
West Virginia
Washington
Wyoming
North Carolina
Nebraska
Rhode Island
Total production
Imports
Total supply
Exports
Consumption
1892.
52,472,504
2,413,678
300,000
363,020
800,000
8,710,878
1,000,000
2,454,449
6,417
1,500
14.000
180,399,017
1,281,839
181, (¡80,856
2,997,004
1893.
53,810,214
1,807,432
322,745
416,605
842,933
8,891,323
1,211,550
2,243,401
17,000
2,000
14,000
183,422,710
1,241,028
184,663,738
4,097,943
178,683,852 180,565,795
THE FUTURE OF COTTON.
A point has been reached in the production, and consequent-
ly in the price, of cotton when it is absolutely obligatory upon
all who are directly interested either in producing or selling cot-
ton, or. indeed, if merely collaterally interested, to give the
whole subject their most careful thought and to adopt a system
essentially different from that which has obtained for the last
thirty years. There are two conclusions, which every thoughtful
man in the South must inevitably have reached long before this
—that the growing of maximum crops of cotton and minimum
crops of foodstuffs do not make the countjy prosperous, and
that the coin nercial success or" the cities and towns cannot be
maintained without a reasonable prosperity in the country. We
believe that it has taken a long time for the average merchant
to learn this, and it seems, indeed to have taken equally as long
tor the average cotton grower to fully realize it; but the truth
seems to have struck in at last, and there are few people in this
or any other portion of the cotton-growing country who do not
now recognize the fact that the process which reduces the tillers
of the soil to poverty will necessarily bankrupt every commercial
interest involved in them. The south is cotton sick. For the
last four years the price of this staple has been so low that it was
a rare exception where it has not sold for less than the cost of
production. For this to go on is quick and certain ruin to those
who grow cotton and almost as quick and equally certain ruin
to those whose business is only indirectly affected. What is to
be the remedy?—[Memphis Commercial.
Advices from Cartagena, Colombia, state that active opera-
tions have been instituted to develop the coal deposits of that
country by an American company controlled by ex-Governor
lames E. Campbell, Stilson Hutchins and Admiral James E.
Jouett, the government of Colombia being a partner in the enter-
prise. Coal costs about $15 a ton on the Atlantic side of the
Isthmus of Panama, and the new mines are expected to cheapen
it considerably. It is expected that the coaling station will be
established at Point Cispata on the Gulf of Darien, seventy-five
miles south of Cartagena. The interest of American capitalists
was attracted to these coal deposits by the publications of the
Bureau of American Republics.
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From four pages for an initial issue on January 20 to fourteen
pages March 24—two months ! Really, now, there's no saying
when this growing will stop. The advertising public must have
space. The reading public must have the news—we're here to
accommodate 'em both.
DUBLIN ICE CO,
Bottlers of Soda Water
= AND 5
All Carbonated Drinks
M. C. GILLETTE, MGR.
DUBLIN, TEXAS.
L. M. Rumsey M'f'g Co.
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
Engines, Boilers and Hoisting Machinery,
. . . Mine, Mill, Machinists' . . .
Blacksmith and Foundry Supplies,
Agricultural Implements, Pumps, Gas Pipe, Belting,
Hose and Packing.
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Liberal Advanceson Consignments
FARMS!
The right kind of men that want Land on
Favorable Terms should apply at the office of
the
T. ai}d P. Coal Co
buy
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Ballard, Webb & Burnett Hat Company's
uaranteed Buck Hat
Every Hat Guaranteed.
For Sale by Texas & Pacific Coal Company.
Huóí>e^ Bró^. M.apufacburir)^> Co.
MANUFACTURERS
DR HUGHES
■Grape Bakir)^ Powder
Jelly, Preserves, Vinegar, Extracts,
AND FULL LINE OF
Grocers' Shelf Goods.
Cor. Hughes and Ervay Streets,
DALLAS, TEXAS.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 10, March 24, 1894, newspaper, January 27, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200457/m1/7/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.