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1904, with respect both to bituminous and to
cannel, show losses.
With respect to the percentage of the total output
that is mined by machine, Kentucky continues
to be one of the leading machine-mining
states. More than one-half of the output was
produced by machine. The amount of coal so
mined in each district, together with the percentage
relation of the machine-mined coal to the
total product, was as follows:
Tons Pc. Product.
Mined by Machinery.
Western 2,791,880 67.73
Southeastern 851,029 35.00
Northeastern 125,274 20.30
Coal is mined by machines in fourteen of the
twenty-six counties producing commercial coal.
Hopkins county stands first with respect to the
relation its machine-mined tonnage bears to the
total tonnage of machine coal. Its machinemined
tonnage amounted to 39.58 per cent, of the
total tonnage so mined in the state. Muhlenberg
comes next with 13.09 per cent., followed by Ohio
with 12.29 per cent., Knox with 11.12 per cent.,
Whitney with 4.57 per cent., and so on down to
Breathitt and Henderson, whose respective machine-mined
tonnage amounted to 0.85 and 0.52
per cent, of the total.
There was quite a drop in the production of
coke, the amount for 1904 being 62,722 tons, as
against 119,598 tons in 1903. The output by companies
was as follows:
Tons of
Coke. Cl Used.
Ohio Valley C. & M. Co 3,647 7,278
St. Bernard M. Co 35,866 79,060
Ashland I. & M. Co 17,980 39,316
National C. & I. Co 3,628 7,167
Pineville Coal Co 1,601 3,202
Total 62,722 136,023
The output for 1904 was produced by 141 companies,
operating 172 mines, and employing 13,-
906 persons, of whom 10,991 worked underground.
The average number of ten-hour days worked in
each district was as follows: The Western, 174;
the Southeastern, 184; the Northeastern, 173. The
number of hours constituting a working day
varies, in practice, with circumstances: at mines
working under "union" agreements it is eight or
nine; at others it is usually ten. In the inspector's
statistics the ten-hour day is used for
the sake of uniformity.
In the production of the coal, twenty lives were
lost, fourteen of them underground. For each
fatal accident underground, 511,951 tons of coal
were raised. The amount produced per fatality
inside and outside was 358,366 tons. One life
was lost underground for each 785 persons em­
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ployed inside. In the tonnage of coal raised per
fatal accident Kentucky still stands in the front.
The tonnage raised in Ohio per fatal accident in
1904 was 174,598.
The following is the production by counties:
County. Short tons.
Butler 8,229
Crittenden 291
Christian 91,943
Daviess 24,467
Hancock 43,1 !»2
Henderson 12S312
Ho P k ins 1,724,098
McLean 95,731
Muhlenberg 903,205
°hio 509,040
Union 452 414
Webster 240,643
Bell 514,576
Knox 584.095
Laurel 319,932
Pulaski 170.393
Rockcastle 106,482
Whitley 735,646
Boyd 94,506
Breathitt 30,731
Carter 234,421
Johnson 26,229
Lawrence 67,709
Lee 54.800
Morgan 59,509
Pike 46,730
Total ." 7.167,324
MINING INSTITUTE MEETING.
The summer meeting of the Western Pennsylvania
Central Mining Institute will be held at the
court house at Pittsburgh next Tuesday and Wednesday
July 18 and 19. The summer meeting of
the institute was omitted last year owing to the
fact that many of the members attended the
World's fair at St. Louis, Mo. At this year's meeting
a series of short talks on mining methods and
experiences will take the place of the usual papers
and the affair in general will partake largely of
the nature of an outing and reunion of the members.
The following is the program:
Tuesday morning, 9:30 o'clock: President's address,
by Fred. C. Keighley, Uniontown, Pa. Business
matters of the institute.
Tuesday afternoon, experience meeting—short
talks on experiences of the first six months of
1905, by various members of the institute.
Wednesday morning, trips by street cars to
points of interest about the city.
Wednesday afternoon, continuation of street car
trips.