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$0 314

372

11,520

33

40

9,100

574

50

564

10,520 1 50

*

50

50

40

372

50

50

622

622

372

4334

716 100

680 1 00 7,786

3,350 1 12%2

1,204 1 25

861 50

$122,632

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684

622

55

4,245 1

00

25,856

61

2,800

75

3,200 75

4334

9,400

72

4334

14,864

65

43

15,753

70

12,000

622

4334

6,864

872

7,429 60

800 1 25

In taking the average days wo ked in the district, the counties of Franklin, Hardin Hamilton and Jefferson have been omitted.

Whole number of openings reported in 1889, one hundred and seventy-four.
Number of new mines or places opened during the year, forty-one.
Number of mines exhausted or abandoned during the year, twenty.

Whole number of openings reported for 1890, one hundred and ninty-three.

APPENDIX.

DOCUMENTS

PRESENTED TO THE

THIRTY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF ILLINOIS.

A. Protest and Argument of Illinois Coal Operators Against Adverse Legislation.

B. Reply of Illinois Coal Miners to the Argument of Coal Operators Against Adverse Legislation.