Accurately kept reports show that in the last 22 years, 
the vast total of 253,000,000 tons of coal were moved.on the 
surface of the Monongahela River. In the year 1919, the 
amount of coal shipped on the Monongahela River was 
14,400,000 tons. 
Movement of coal and coke by water will be greally 
stimulated when the ship canal which is to connect the 
Ohio River with Lake Erie shall be finished, as this water- 
way would provide connection with the Great Lakes and 
the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. This great project has 
been discussed for vears and awaits prover action by Con- 
gress. 
The First National Bank at Pittsburgh possesses ex- 
ceptional facilities for financing exports of coal and other 
products of the United States. The Foreign Exchange 
Department is directly connected with all commercial 
centers of the world, and handles promptly and economi- 
cally all documents pertaining to Foreign Commercial 
transactions. We issue drafts and make payments all 
over the globe. All languages are spoken in this depart- 
ment, and translations of documents are made for custo- 
mers. The officers and directors of this institution are 
experienced bankers and business men. and their advice 
is available at all times. 
The great progress made in the coal business of the 
United States is graphically told in the diagram printed on 
another page, showing the total consumption and per capita 
consumption of coal from 1850 to 1918, inclusive. Seventy 
years ago, the production of coal totalled 2,880,017 tons 
annually, and only twelve-one hundredths of a ton was 
used on an average by every person in the country. Fifty 
years later, in 1900, the annual output was 212,316,112 
tons, and the per capita consumption had increased to 2.8 
tons. The next decade saw an expansion to 417,111,142 
tons, while the per capita consumption increased to a little 
more than 414 tons. The output grew steadily year by 
year until 1918 showed 585,883,000 tons of coal mined and 
the per capita consumption rose to 5.57 tons. This was 
the heaviest year of the great European war, when every 
effort was being made to stimulate production to meet the 
unprecedented demand