Author: Department of Mines and Minerals

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-02-03

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9780243275236

Excerpt from Statistics of Coal in Illinois, 1887: A Supplemental Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics Containing the Annual Reports of Mine Inspectors The. Relative magnitude of the business of the great coal com panics is as follows: The Consolidated Coal Co. Of St. Louis which owns and controls 71 mines in Illinois, reports as the product of 54 of them tons, This, however, does not represent a full years, Operations, in point of time, as the organization of the com pany was not completed until September, and 17 of their acquired mines were not operated at all. So that the above output may be regarded as the work of three-fourths of their mines for 10 months of the year. The Chicago, Wilmington and Vermilion Coal Co. Has 4 mines at Braidwood and 3 at Streator, and reports as the product of these 7 establishments a total of tons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.