This section is from the book "Manual Of Useful Information", by J. C Thomas. Also available from Amazon: Manual of useful Information.
Compiled from the Report of the Eleventh Census, covering product of 1889. Weight expressed in short tons of 2,000 pounds:
States | Tons |
Alabama.......... | 3,378,484 |
Arkansas........... | 279,584 |
California and Oregon | 186,119 |
Colorado.......... | 2,360,536 |
Georgia and North Carolina | 226,156 |
Illinois............ | 12,104,272 |
Indiana......... | 2.845,057 |
732 832 | |
Iowa.......... | 4,061,704 |
Kansas...... | 2,230,763 |
States. | Tons. |
Kentucky........... | 2.399,755 |
Maryland................. | 2,939.715 |
Michigan................ | 67,431 |
Missouri............... | 2.567.823 |
Montana................ | 363,301 |
Nebraska and Dakotas............ | 30,307 |
New Mexico........... | 486,983 |
Ohio.............. | 9,976,787 |
Pennsylvania: | |
Anthracite .... | 45 544,970 |
Bituminous ... | 36,174.089 |
States. | Tons. |
Tennessee | 1,925,689 |
Texas | 128 216 |
Utah............. | 236 601 |
Virginia: | |
Anthracite___ | 2,817 |
Bituminous ... | 865,786 |
993.724 | |
West Virginia.... | 6.231.880 |
Wyoming | 1,388 947 |
Total product, 1889, short tons, 140,730,288, equivalent to 125,652,056 long tons of 2,240 pounds.
 
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