Annual Report Of The Department Of Mines For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30 1923 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Department of Mines: For the Year Ending, June 30, 1916 To His Excellency, Henry Drury Hatfield, Governor of West Virginia. Sir: - I herewith submit to you my annual report for the year ending June 30, 1916, this being my third annual report of the Department of Mines and the thirty-fourth annual report upon the condition of the coal mines within this State. During this year the conditions in the coal industry of the State have exceeded by far the conditions in any previous year, and are very gratifying. The production of both coal and coke have been materially increased, as has also been the average number of days worked in both industries. The following will give the increase in tonnage of both coal and coke together with the percentage of increase: The production of coal for the year covered by this report has increased 15, 493,612 gross tons over the year 1915, as you will note from the figures above. The production of coke during the same period has increased 854,628 net tons he previous year. These increases are very gratifying to this department and shows that the high quality of West Virginia coal is being recognized by purchasers of fuel everywhere. West Virginia is handicapped by the distance from the coal markets of the country, and this, added to the difficulty of transportation, clearly demonstrates the superior quality of the coal in this State as compared with its more favored competitors in other States. The Legislature of 1915 re-enacted the mining laws of this State, and in doing so provided for three additional inspectors, making fifteen in all. This required the redistricting of the State into fifteen inspection districts and the appointment of three additional inspectors. Complying with this law the State was divided into fifteen inspection districts comprised of the following: 1st District Counties of Tucker, Monongalia (part), Preston (part), Mineral and Grant. 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.