Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report of the State Mine Inspector of the State of Missouri: For the Year Ending June 30, 1892 The coal industry has steadily increased year after year. N 0 period in the history of the State has shown the progress that this year develops. The increase shown by this report over the preceding year amounts to tons, or very nearly 14% of the entire tonnage of the year before. This is indicative of increased population, as well as demand from other sources. As the output is governed by the demand, yet, if the necessity should arise for double the amount of coal produced last year, we feel confident that in a short time our mines would meet such increase without embarrassment. There has been a good demand in almost all the mining sections of the State for miners, and we are constantly in receipt of circulars from Operators advertising for men. The following table will show that there are now 454 mines in ope ration, an increase of 68. It also shows increases as follows: Ten steam-powers. 27 horse-powers, 17 shafts, 9 slopes, 28 drifts and 24 strip-pits. The table shows a decrease of 1906 kegs of powder as compared with last year, which is a gratifying showing when it is remem bered that much more coal has been mined during the year. It will be found that there was an average of 9699 men employed in winter, and an average of 6419 in summer. There were 20 fatal and 41 non-fatal accidents. The total number of tons mined amounts to The total amount received for same at the mines amounts to The average price received per ton at mines was or a decrease from the price received last year of 4} cents. 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.