Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1914 — World’s Supply of Coal. [ARTICLE]

World’s Supply of Coal.

The production of coal in the United States is about squal to that of the United Kingdom, Germany and France combined. In 1912 It was 477,000,000 tons in the United States, 260,000,000 tons in the United Kingdom, 172,000,000 tons in Germany, 40,000,000 tons in France, 26,000,000 tons in Russia and 23,000,000 tons in Belgium. The reserves of coal in the earth in the United States are nearly equal to those of all the rest of the world combined, ‘ according to recent estimates.