TABLE 102.-Coal produced in Michigan, 1919-1923, in net tons a Bay includes Tuscola in 1922, and Calhoun and Shiawassee increase in 1923. Calhoun and Tuscola in 1919, 1920, and 1921; Tuscola only, and included with Bay in 1922; Calhoun and Shiawassee in 1923. No canvass of wagon mines for 1921. MISSOURI Like Kansas, Missouri showed an increased production of coal in 1923, as compared with 1922, and yet a smaller tonnage than for many years preceding 1922. Not since 1910 has the output in this State been as low as in 1922 and 1923. The output for 1923 was 3,403,151 tons, an increase of 478,401 tons, or 16.4 per cent. The total value was $11,575,000, and the average value per ton was $3.40, an increase in the former of $422,000, but a decrease in the latter. Figure 49 shows the course of daily production in the State, by years from 1918 to 1922 and by months for 1923. The general curve practically follows that of Kansas and Oklahoma, though varying somewhat in the first and last months of 1923. The average daily output in 1918 was 18,000 tons; in 1922 it was 9,500 tons. The year 1923 began with an average of 14,500 tons in January and ended with 11,500 tons in December. TABLE 104.-Coal produced in Missouri, 1919–1923, in net tons Included under "Cooper, etc.," 1922; includes Chariton in 1923 and Cooper, etc., decrease in 1923. Caldwell, etc., includes Dade in 1921, 1922, and 1923. e Cooper, Howard, Moniteau, and Pettis in 1919; Cooper, Howard, Moniteau, Morgan, and Pettis in 1920; Howard, Moniteau, and Pettis in 1921; Boone, Chariton, and Moniteau in 1922; no production in Cooper in 1922 and 1923. d Includes Schuyler in 1922 and 1923. Included under "Other counties." Other counties include Chariton, Franklin, Ralls, and St. Clair in 1919; Chariton, Ralls, and St. Clair in 1920; Chariton, Franklin, Ralls, and St. Clair in 1921; Franklin, Lincoln, Putnam, Ralls, and St. Clair in 1922; and Cass, Lincoln, Ralls, and St. Clair in 1923. • No canvass of wagon mines for 1921. MONTANA The year 1923 in the Montana coal fields showed a large increase over the record of the strike year 1922-575,457 tons, or 22.4 per cent, more coal being raised. Although the average value per ton decreased, the total value showed a gain of $1,443,500, or 17.6 per cent. The mines were in operation more days but employed fewer men than in the preceding year. The curve of average daily output (fig. 51) shows the summer depression characteristic of the northwestern States, with an abnormal drop in December. |