The world's opportunities and how to use them (1887) (14590902040)

Identifier: worldsopportunit00guer (find matches)
Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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COAL, ANTHRACITE AXD BITUMINOUS. 209 mined in Rhode Island and Virginia. The total production ofanthracite in 1SS0 was 28,649,811 tons — being about 40 percent, of all the coal mined in the United States; and its valuewas $42,186,678 — being about 47 per cent, of the total valueof all the coal. Bituminous Coal is much more widely diffused than an-thracite, and is mined in twenty-four States of the Union.Pennsylvania furnishes not only nearly all of the anthracite,but also 43.4 per cent, of the bituminous coal of the UnitedStates. So that in this State was produced 67.7 per cent, ofall the coal mined in the Union. Table XV. shows for each State the quantity and value ofthe coal mined, in 1880, in the United States. Of that minedin Pennsylvania 28,649,812 tons were anthracite, and 18,075,548tons were bituminous. All the coal of Rhode Island and asmall part of that of Virginia is anthracite; all mined in theother States is bituminous. The table also shows the value ofthe minor minera