Der Wirtschaftskampf der Völker und seine internationale Regelung

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Identifikator:: 1031936459

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-64150

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Denkschrift betreffend die Neuregelung der handelspolitischen Beziehungen Deutschlands zu den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: [Mitteleuropäischer Wirtschaftsverein in Deutschland]

Year of publication:: 1905

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Title:: VI.

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12 OUR MINERAL RESERVES. for it will plainly not be wise to deplete too greatly this reserve of fuel, on which the Nation's industrial life must depend. At present, however, the question of the duration of our coal supply includes so many indeterminate factors that any prophecy as to the date of its exhaustion must be of questionable value, and it does not now seem at all improvident for us to utilize in some degree this abundant resource as a means of building up our foreign commerce and mak ing new markets for the products of our industries. Until the present war broke out Great Britain was the only coun try that exported coal in considerable quantity, but Great Britain is already beginning to feel the pinch of poverty in her coal sup plies, and it is highly probable that when peace is once more estab lished she will place restrictions upon her exports of coal. In 1013 the exports of coal from Great Britain amounted to 82,200,000 short tons, and the bunker trade called for 23,555,288 short tons more. In the same year the exports from the United States, as already stated, amounted to a little over 25,000,000 short tons and the total bunker trade at the principal ports—New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Hampton Roads—was only about 7,500,000 tons, indicating that most of the trans-Atlantic liners, the majority of which are English, have been carrying from the other side a sufficient quantity of coal for the round trip. The high-grade steaming coals of the United States, which would be the coals in chief demand for export trade, are found largely in the eastern half of the Appalachian coal field, which includes the Clearfield, Allegheny, and Somerset districts of Pennsylvania on the north; the Cumberland region of Maryland; the Elk Garden, Fairmont, New River, and Pocahontas districts of West Virginia ; the southwestern counties of Virginia ; the eastern counties of Ken tucky and Tennessee; and the Birmingham and other districts of Alabama on the south. Of these coals, those available in highest quality are the semibituminous coals of the Pocahontas, New River, Elk Garden, and Cumberland districts and the better grades of Clearfield. The fields nearest the seaboard are those of the Cumber land and Elk Garden districts, but these fields are approaching exhaustion, so that the advantage in this respect will fall to the Alabama mines, which are being made more easily and cheaply accessible by the slack-water improvements in Warrior River, which have already resulted in a market advance of Mobile as a shipping port. PETROLEUM. Perhaps the most important change in the conditions of exports and imports affected by the war relates to crude petroleum and petroleum products, including benzine, gasoline, illuminating oils, lubricating oils, residuum, fuel oils, paraffine wax, and medicinal

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