Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1877 — British Coal Production. [ARTICLE]

British Coal Production.

The quantity of coal raised from the mines of Great Britain reached 100,000,000 tons in a year for the first time in 1866. In 1876 it amounted to 134,125,166 tons, namely, 115,334,359 tons in England and Wales, 18,665,612 tons in Scotland, and 125,195 tons in Ireland. Durham, the greatest coal field, keeps its lead, its year’s product now approaching 26,(MX),000 fond. Wales

produced aboVe 19,000,000 tons. Nottinghamshire and Cumberland alsopresent a substantial increase. Lancashire, Yorkshire and Staffordshire ahoW a con* ftideirable falling off, as compared with the preceding year ; and there is a noticeable decline also in Derbyshire, Northumberland and Leicestershire.