TABLE 80.-Coal produced in Alabama, 1922-23

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

• 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 Nenana 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.

TABLE 82.-Coal produced and consumed in Alaska, 1880-1923

• Figures for 1880-1919 are as revised by the Alaskan branch of the Geological Survey. No figures on imports before 1899 are available.

• For fiscal year ending June 30.

ARKANSAS

In 1923 the production of coal in Arkansas was 1,296,892 tons, valued at $5,192,000, which was an increase of 186,846 tons, or 16.8 per cent, in quantity, and of $600,000, or 13.1 per cent, in value over that of 1922. The average value per ton, however, was $4.01lower than that of the preceding year, which was $4.14. Although the number of days worked increased from 81 to 97, Arkansas still ranked the lowest of all the States in the actual days the mines were in operation.

Figure 49 compares the production per day in each month of 1923 with the daily average for the years 1918 to 1922. Against a maximum of 7,000 tons a day in 1918 and a minimum of 3,600 tons in the strike year 1922, the daily production in 1923 ranged from 5,000 tons in January and September to 3,000 tons in May.

TABLE 84.-Coal produced in Arkansas, 1919-1923, in net tons

• No production in Washington in 1919; no production in Scott in 1921. No canvass of wagon mines for 1921.

CALIFORNIA, IDAHO, NEVADA, AND OREGON

For years the coal producers in California, Idaho, Nevada, and Oregon have been so few that it has been necessary to group them to avoid disclosing individual operations. Since 1915 no production has been recorded for Nevada. The following table shows the totals for these States from 1912 to 1923:

TABLE 85.-Coal produced in California, 1912-13; in California, Idaho, and Nevada, 1914-15; in California and Idaho, 1916-1920; in California, Idaho, and Oregon, 1921-1923