Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-01-23
THE COAL SUPPLY.
The Eject ct tae Cable strike on
CtrtsIa fsuz TeuEs an the Imme-
dfate Vicinity

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C4rt4Ia lew. TouE- an the Iune-
date Vicinity
There is good desi II The preseu. SIT
nation 20 ieieres, tie corsaner of e,zi IN
tais ctr, s1d in al this vicinity fss that
matter. The strike Is still effective 81
Cable, snd there i 10 hope OF pr,5specs of
It's fermir.tsou. The withdrawal OF that
amount Of coal from the iri-cittes md The
trade that thsE supply from the Coal Vsl-
ley mines Is costing some people coed
deal OF money. and trouble If one Eind
and another il srising.
SO far, there has been 30 shortage Of
fuel in this market, bat tbeYe Is, 81 the
same tine, 10 surplus Moline ns-ufsc-
ia-ers have been trying 10 bur coal or
tnis aide Of the river, and have failed
The dealers here seem 70 have al they
! ss1t TO do 10 take care Of their lcczi c1s-
TONERS ard those VITO largely depend on
the Cosl EzlIsT mines for their
supply are fnding il matter 0. q fhcHlty
aud ever impoEsi5iiiiF lo MI the orders
snd s1ist the conplsin's Of the small
dealers in The small 10 ans outside Of Dav>
export Ausca,ine i complaining q
scarcity, srd the little places along the
milwaukee and TIE Rocs Island roads are
al beginning TO CRY ont vigorously They
have been pretty well stocked, but thst
reserve Is running low row, srd they fad
i, necessary to replenish it.
The strike seems not 70 Be co1ta=d 20
Cable. a good mary people in the west
ern end of this city have been buying
their coal on the market, ike they do
wood or hsT, and the Buffalo mines have
furnished this supply. Now il IL learned
there il trouble in the Buffalo mines
They are ali small, but there has been
some striking there. This has decreased
the supply 50 that the cost of the article
has been largely increased. l. has gone
up 20 10 cents blshel a. the mine, and
day or 30 ago this Buffalo coal sod on
the market here al IS cents bushel, or
al = ton.
Eidridge & Dorahue have been on. OF
coal for q week. Long Grove is short
also, and there are walls from other
places. varying il degrees Of sadness bu,
all Of them bad enough The dealers
hare say that they are receiving as good
prices for the car lots they pu, into thes.
little places az they do for the retail or
ders that 60 out Of tbei- yards to this
city. Coal ia coming in from difsren,
mines. and from almost eli points
Within the past two weeks one
firm here has had cars of
coal from II different roads. and
from more than that number of mines
This supply has kept MP the fires in this
icty all right, but it has not been sse-
qaste to the outside trade. Dealers are
doing as much work now trying 10 quel!
their protesting customers in the villages
about Davenport as they are in the effort
to get coal.
Il is stated that their is shortage in
the slack market as well as in the coal,
sad that this is felt here more keenly thsn
the latter. One dealer here has q con
tract for supplying slack TO one heavy
consumer, and in order 10 keep mis- con
tract has been compelled TO furnish lump
coal. This is costing him large sums Of
money instead of yielding him profit,
but his contract is one of those vise-like
affairs that will no. let 60.
IL there were 70 be few more strikes
in the Illinois mipes. about LIS Sale or
Peoris. there would probably be trouble
here. There would certainly be sharp
advance in the price of coal This is
something that has not Jet been made,
though there has been talk of it, ard it is
likely that it will not be made unless
there is en- advance in the cost to the
dealers here Some of them, at least, say
they will not take advantage of the nece
essity of the people who depend on them
for fuel. and that they will not put up
the price till it is put up on them DAY
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