CLASSIFICATION OF MALES, FEMALES, MINORS AND WAGES PAID IN ALL INDUSTRIES CONSIDERED. Males. Females. Minors. Males. Alcohol, acetate of lime, charcoal, etc., 715 $372,955 $521 €1 Agricultural implements, mill and mining machinery, .... 3,133 2 13 1,654,903 $625 $2,854 528 55 $312 50 $219 53 $1 86 $1.07 $0 75 Number of Wage Earn-Aggregate Amount of Wages Average Yearly Earn- ers Employed. ings. Average Daily *sa[yuDI Minors. Edge tools, gas stoves, iron and steel specialties, ..................... Males. Females. Minors. Males. Females. Minors. Electric apparatus and electric lamps, 10,503 1,361 8 6,756, 779 445,547 1,950 643 34 327 37 243 75 2 14 1 09 .81 Gas, gasoline and steam engines and oil weil supplies, Knit goods, underwear, etc., in the State outside of Phila- 723 2,830 385 356,759 687,014 64,868 493 44 244 76 168 52 1 69 .84 .58 Lace goods and draperies, 1,000 1,087 370 735,466 328,175 53,284 735 46 301 91 144 01 2 47 1 01 .39 Leather, miscellaneous, given in sides, pounds and feet, Industries. Males. CLASSIFICATION OF MALES, FEMALES, MINORS AND WAGES PAID IN ALL INDUSTRIES CONSIDERED-Continued. Females. Minors. Males. Woolen and worsted goods, blankets, flannels, etc.. ...... 1,532 1,485 251 696, 232 444,577 54,901 454 46 298 78 213 62 154 1 01 Anthracite coal, 155,911 8,950 92,246,004 2,392,335 591 02 267 30 2 43 ...... 1 10 Aggregate Amount of Wages Average Yearly Earn- Average Daily ANALYTICAL DEDUCTIONS.* If the average person were asked to state the chief industry of Pennsylvania his immediate response would probably be that it is coal mining, since the operations and the manufacturing interests connected with this great natural mineral wealth of the state reach such colossal proportions. It was in Pennsylvania that the first anthracite coal was discovered in 1790, and it is still this state that contains practically the output of the world. The first shipment of anthracite was made in a memorable year of our history, a date that pointed most significantly to the great future of the young Republic, the year 1812, when nine wagon loads were taken from Pottsville to Philadelphia. Never in the State's history has so much anthracite and bituminous coal been mined as there was last year. The anthracite industry shows a production of 75,450,202 gross tons, having a commercial value at the mines of $165,084,246, without considering the cost of transportation to tide water, which is a very profitable asset for the railroads or carrying companies. There were 166,743 wage earners employed in mining and preparing this coal for market, and $95,463,658 was paid to them as earnings. This hard coal deposit perculiarly belongs to Pennsylvania and is confined to ten counties that lie in the north-east and eastern parts of the state. But inexhaustible as it appears, there has been an interesting controversy going on in one of the coal producing counties over the assessed valuation of coal before being mined, some of the largest producing corporations appealing to the court for a reduction as fixed by the County Commissioners. Mining experts generally agreed that the coal in Lackawanna County would be exhausted in thirty or thirty-five years, at the rate of mining that was done in 1906, basing their figures on 13,000,000 tons a year, but in 1907 Lackawanna County produced 17,223,015 gross tons, so that if these experts are correct this precious fuel will all be taken out in twenty-five years. In Schuylkill County the "Pine Knot Colliery," of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, is the largest anthracite coal operation in the world. The colliery will turn out 100 cars a day, or a total of about 3,500 tons. The mining engineers have solved some difficult problems in connection with the work at the *Read by C. B. Penman, Assistant Chief at Detroit Convention of Association of Bureau of Labor Statistics of America, August 5, 1908. |