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Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Coal Report Prepared by the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1899: Also Containing the First Annual Report of the Illinois Free Employment Offices, August 2 to October 1, 1899 An examination of the general summary prepared from the reports submitted to this office by the State Mine Inspectors, for the year ended June 30, 1899, show, notwithstanding the general adoption of the shorter work day, that the percentage of increase of production considerably exceeds that of any similar period in the mining history of the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.