TABLE 78.—Estimated average daily output of bituminous coal, by States, in each month of 1923

[The figures represent the average per working day. The total number of working days in 1923, for the country as a whole, was 306]

1, 975,000 1,826,000 1,794,000 1,806,000 1,813,000 1,811,000 1,868,000 1,923,000 1,969,000 1,885,000 1,813,000 1,650,000 1,845,000

• Alaska, California, Georgia, Idaho, North Carolina, Oregon, and South Dakota.

Table 79.--Average spot prices of bituminous coal f. o. b. mines in certain States, 1918–1923, as published in Coal Age

Alabama:

Steam coal, run-of-mine.
Illinois:

Central, run-of-mine.
Southern, run-of-mine

Standard, run-of-mine.
Indiana, 4th and 5th vein:

Lump..
Mine run.

Screenings.
Kentucky:

Eastern, run-of-mine.

Western, run-of-mine.
Ohio:

Pittsburgh, No. 8, run-of-mine.

Hocking, run-of-mine.
Pennsylvania:

Somerset, run-of-mine.
Clearfield, run-of-mine..

Pittsburgh, run-of-mine.
West Virginia:

Smokeless, run-of-mine.
Kanawha, run-of-mine.

. No data.

ALABAMA

The production of coal in Alabama in 1923 was the greatest recorded in the history of the State, exceeding that of the previous banner year, 1917, by 389,575 tons. The total output for the year was 20,457,649 tons, valued at $51,624,000, an increase over 1922 of 2,132,909 tons, or 11.6 per cent, in quantity and of $8,768,000, or 20.5 per cent, in value. Jefferson County contributed most of the gain.

The number of days worked increased from 215 to 232, the highest average among all the important coal-producing States; and, as

1918

6161

1920
1921
1922

JAN. FEB. MAR. APR, MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT NOV DEC

1923 FIGURE 45.-Production of coal per working day and trend of spot prices in Alabama, 1918–1923. Data

from Tables 78 and 79; spot prices as quoted by Coal Age

shown in Figure 45, the number of tons produced per working day in each month in 1923, with little variation, was greater than the average for any of the preceding five years till December, when it fell below that for 1918 and 1922. In 1918 this daily average was 62,000 tons, in 1922 it was 60,000 tons, and in December, 1923, it was 58,000 tons.

In 1919 the average spot price quoted by Coal Age for Alabama coal was $2.64; in 1920 it was almost double that-$5.12; since 1921 the curve of price has followed a uniformly downward course, except for a slight rise in February, 1923.

• Includes coal for by-product coke ovens transported over private railroads. & Franklin and Marion.

TABLE 81.-Coal produced in Alabama, 1919–1923, in net lons

1, 034, 099 968, 011 643, 992 1, 039, 689
283, 606

1, 227,071
285, 384

+187, 389 302, 390 119, 390

320, 960 121, 886

263, 515 84, 791

-57, 445 91, 397

. 151, 253 a 179, 140 76,568 75, 107

+21,887 7, 548, 567

98, 810 7,719, 910

132, 155 5,864, 475

+33, 343 668, 304

8, 184, 867 9, 749, 869 662, 209

+1, 505, 002 646, 212 562, 863

803, 297 586, 996

803, 281

- 16 460, 496 627, 141 872, 778 914, 183

676, 477 538, 402

+9,3

1, 176, 764 4, 290, 298 4, 768, 457

1, 217, 227 3,919, 884

+40, 463

5,797, 279 65, 006 36, 495

6, 149,068 33, 150

+351, 789

28, 380
413

21, 836
154, 000
()

-6, 544

96,300 38,010 -58, 30 15, 536, 721 16, 294, 099 12,568, 899 18, 324, 740 20, 457, 649 $45,937, 681 $59, 410,000 $38, 713, 000 $42, 856, 000 $51, 624, 000 $8,768,000

+2, 132, 909

Total value..

. Includes Franklin in 1922 and 1923; no production in Cullman in 1923.

No canvass of wagon mines for 1921.

ALASKA

In 1923 Alaska produced 119,826 tons of coal, valued at $755,000. This tonnage came from 12 mines, the largest of which were the Évan Jones mine, in the Matanuska field, and the Healy River mine, in the Nenaná field, both served by the Alaska Railroad. These 12 mines employed altogether 199 men and were in operation on an average of 220 days. The output in 1923 was 40,551 tons, or 51.2 per cent, greater than in 1922, and it is significant that the Territory is supplying more and more of its own fuel.

The Alaskan branch of the Geological Survey has revised the coal figures for the years 1880 to 1919, but this revision is comparatively so slight that it has not been considered necessary to change the United States totals for these years. The revised table is, however, given on the following page.