. Hardware merchandising January-June 1900. untry became more active at a time whenthe mines were too busy in filling ordersfrom other directions to give it as muchattention as t,hey otherwise would. In its reference to the coal mining tradeof Nova Scotia for 1899. The MaritimeMining Record, in a recent issue, said :Only once in the last 50 years did theincrease in any year over the preceding THE COAL INDUSTRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. The increase in the coal output of BritishColumbia, while not as large as in NovaScotia, was, nevertheless, material, the gainin the Vancouver Island collieries bein
. Hardware merchandising January-June 1900. untry became more active at a time whenthe mines were too busy in filling ordersfrom other directions to give it as muchattention as t,hey otherwise would. In its reference to the coal mining tradeof Nova Scotia for 1899. The MaritimeMining Record, in a recent issue, said :Only once in the last 50 years did theincrease in any year over the preceding THE COAL INDUSTRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. The increase in the coal output of BritishColumbia, while not as large as in NovaScotia, was, nevertheless, material, the gainin the Vancouver Island collieries beingnearly 50,000 tons. The mines of TheCrows Nest Pass Co., at Fernie, , arealso increasing their output at a rapid total output in British Columbia lastyear was 1, tons, made up as fol-lows : Tons. Ne^ V. C. Co Wei ington 257,443 Union 206,871 Alexandria 47,129 Wellington Extension 40,000 Crows Nest Pass Co 116,200 Total 1,282,451 The output of the Vancouver Island col-lieries, which comprise all the above except. WABANA PIER-From where the iron ore of the Great Bell Island Iron Mine is shipped to the output alone. The shipments alsoshowed a gratifying increase. The ship-ments of The Dominion Coal Co. increasedby 434,861 tons ; of The Cumberland CoalCo., by 28,000 tons ; of The Acadia CoalCo , by 57,530 tons ; of The International,by 7,063 tons. Only two companies showeda decrease. The aggregate increase for theProvince was 517,386 tons, the totalquantity shipped being 2, tons,against 2,137,408 tons in 1898 The quantity of coal shipped to theUnited States was between to 275,-000 tons, the largest since 1865, in whichyear 465,000 tons were sent to that is expected that the exports from NovaScotia to the United States during the year reach 30 per cent., and only twice didthe figures show an increase, compared withthe figures for the year preceding, over200,000 tons. The year just closed marksa new era in the history of the coal
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