Excerpt from Fourteenth Annual Report of the State Bureau of Labor Statistics: Coal in Illinois, 1895; Containing the Twelfth Annual Reports of the State Inspectors of Mines The fourteenth annual coal report of the statistics relating to the production of coal in the State of Illinois, and being for the year ending July 1, 1895, is herewith presented. It is. Necessarily, a continuation of the former reports on the same subject. The data upon which the calculations are based, the sources from which the information is Obtained, as well as the method of arranging and tabulating the same are identical with those of previous reports, thus presenting not only the most complete and accurate history of the subject possible for the past year, but allowing comparisons to be made through a long series of years, by which means averages and percent ages may be Obtained and conclusions reached which could be arrived at in no other way. Those parts of the report which deal with the physical characteristics of the mines, such as the depths of shafts, thickness of seams, systems of working, ventilation and equip ments, are based upon Observations made by the State Inspect ors of Mines. 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.