Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1890 — INDIANA'S COAL INTERESTS. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA'S COAL INTERESTS.

Thomas R. Tislow, State Mine Inspector, submitted his annual report to the Governor luesday. He says that, although warm winters and natural gashavo greatly injured the coal business in this State, thc~ output of coal in 1890 has exceeded that of 1888 by 573.500 tons. In the coal mines of Indiana during the past year there were seven fatal accidents and fifteen accidents hot fatal, The following table gives the nnmber off mines in tho State, capital invested, output in 1890, and men employed, classified by counties: No.of Estimat'd Tonnage Men Mines Capital (Est.) Emn’ld Clny .1:7128 807<7 U 0 6,040,w 0 3,536 Daviess 8 77,000 400.000 m Dubois 1 10,tOO • 90, fO 48 Green . ..._ 2 18,000 28. Vi 00 226 Knox 2 6,'00 5,000 20 tarka 8 Pike . 4 69,>4)0 l+a.O'-o 182 '-U 1iv5n...... . 8 191.(00 700.000 4.3 Vanderburg.„ 5 f. 0,009 800,000 2?0 l L 0... 8 IC,OOO 728,000- 600 Tota' 77 2.081,(00 8,676,000 6.6,50