INDEX TO SUBJECTS. INTRODUCTION. XIII PART I.-THE EARNINGS OF COAL MINE EMPLOYÉS IN ILLINOIS. Rates of Wages and Average Monthly and Daily Earnings. LXIV EARNINGS CLASSIFIED BY AMOUNTS. Average Earnings and the Number who Earned More and Earned Less PART II.-FORECLOSURES, JUDGMENTS AND LAND VALUES. Table II.-Judgments taken by Confession on Judgment Notes... .248-251 Table III.-Judgments rendered in Courts of Record, compared with Chattel 252-256 Table II.-Highest and lowest prices paid for Land in Illinois in 1887. 270-271 Table III.-The Value of Land in Illinois. 272 Table IV.-The Selling Value of Lands in Cook County during the year 1887 .. 273 274 275 276 PART III.-STATISTICS OF COAL PRODUCTION. THE RECORD OF THE YEAR 1890 COMPARED WITH FORMER YEARS. Number of counties in which coal is produced... Number of mines.... The output for the year... The number of employés... Days of active operations... Average value of coal at the mines. Prices paid for mining by hand.. Mining with machines..... The consumption of powder in mines.. 280 280 284 288 289 291 291 293 294 296 Statistics of Grundy, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston and Will counties. .314-316 317 SECOND DISTRICT-Thomas Hudson, Inspector. Text of the report.... 318-322 Casualties .321-325 Statistics of Bureau, Hancock, Henry, Knox, Marshall, McDonough, Mercer, 326-334 Statistics of Cass, Fulton, Logan, McLean, Menard, Peoria, Tazewell, Vermilion, .346-353 Statistics of Bond, Calhoun, Christian, Coles, Edgar, Greene, Jasper, Jersey, .363-371 Statistics of Clinton, Gallatin, Jackson, Johnson, Marion, Perry, Randolph, Saline, 381-388 Recapitulation for the district.. 389 INTRODUCTION. This volume constitutes the Sixth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of Illinois, and contains the statistical results of several special investigations instituted during the last year. The contents of the report are presented in Three Parts, as follows: PART I.—The first division of this report is devoted to Statistics of the Earnings and Working-time of Employés in and about the Coal Mines of Illinois. These statistics have been compiled from the pay-rolls of some of the principal mines and cover a period of twelve months. The advantages offered by such records and such a method of procedure are manifold. In the first place, nothing is left to conjecture; every detail presented is a matter of fact, recorded with impartiality, for business purposes, and consented to in every monthly settlement by both parties to the transaction. In the second place, the facts are consecutive in occurrence, and comprehensive as to the number of men employed; the error is thus avoided of grouping detached incidents, and the experience of a selected few, as conclusive of the experience of the whole. Thirdly, an opportunity is thus afforded of studying the same set of facts for large groups of men in different parts of the coal-field and working under a great variety of conditions. Finally, the pay-rolls are not only conclusive as to the working-time and earnings of employés, but equally as to the character of their service and the amount of their product. The bureau has been fortunate enough to obtain access to books and pay-rolls containing the working-record of many thousand men, and recognizes its obligations to those mineowners who have exposed their accounts to inspection in order to promote the objects of this investigation. PART II.—This division of the report is devoted to three groups of statistics which have been collected and tabulated as supplementary to the statistics of mortgage indebtedness |