Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-14
f is Not for Bread, but for a Sup
ply Of Coal.
TERROR OF MINERS STRIKE
oul, Enough on Hand for 30 Days,
and the strike May be Indeh-
nite-Rise In Prices

New york. Sept. 1.-THE Herald says:
eNeN York is race to face with a coal
famine. the period OF distress which
NAV recall to the old inhabitants the
coal strike Of 1915, when the anthracite
,ost the consumer Sl2 and $li ton.
.rb.s uIty. of all others, will bear the
brut u. any coal famine which the
ia0or trouble may develop. The amount
nj coal now in the hands OF New YORK
dealers. On the way to the city and In
M hands OF the local companies, above
g.uul rs estimated at only " days
s5U.y. which means about l,l25,UO
tors The representative OF mining
snI commission house which mines g.
gNUu 90 100000 tons a year. besides
handling coal for the railroad COM
r,U... speaks OF the prospective adj
"Uu Monday" said he, eve shall
raise our prices 81 ton, and presume
hal there win be a general raise OF at
ls,s, tnat amount"
Dealer. are busy, in completing ar
rau-gm.nts for getting In stocks OF
raI but the big railroad companies are
pn,lus how thoroughly they appreci-
AL t0s situation by shutting down on
ba dealers. All but the Philadelphia
and Reading have refused TO take fur
tbsr orders for coal and the Phlla-
d.IpHa and Reading are taking orders
opIy AGAINST stocks on hand, and Win
tba understanding that these orders are
40 be cancelled IN the event Of a
strike.
The dealers have only been awake
10 the threatening situation for about
a week but In that time they have been
scambIng furiOusly TO buy, and water
fr..ght rates and wholesale rates for
coal have already risen sharply This
advance simply presages much larger
one
The dealers" said Mr.. Wells, OF
StIckney, Conyngham * Co., have
MeI every boat In the harbor with
their coal purchase Not only Is II the
Case that practically all available boats
have been taken for coal carriers but
hundreds OF them have been tied up TO
coal docks and used for storage pur-
poses because OF lack of room on shore,
Coal yards are so crowded that big
dealers are paying So 10 s. a day for the
use 0l each OF these boats. one man
alone having sixty Of them at hand.
That dealers are willing 20 pay these
charges shows what they think Of the
prospective market
Rates have risen to Circular prices"
that is 90 say. a week ago the prices
named iu the circulars We're being
shaded 10 10 % cents a ton, and since
then they have stihened up to the full
nominal rates. Good anthracite coal.
egg stove or chestnut. costs the jobber
sos free on hoard ut South Amboy. or
$40 free on board at Weehawken or
H0b0ken. The water freight rate from
South Amboy is nominally 20 cents. and
fi0m Wcehawken Is cents a ton, so that
the price Of the staple to the jobber Is
AG alongside a dock in this haTb0r.
Ten days ago coal was being sold 20
cents cheaper at South Amboy than Is
now the case. and freight rates had
been shaded several cents a ton. In
some cases freight rates have since
risen to as high as 20 cents ton In
view Of the extraordinary demand for
coal boats. And all this four days in
advance OF the day set for the formal
Institution Of the strike.
a fair estimate Of the coal now In
The hands OF New York dealers and
oHaAk hLA iNASlt iNl ~ llItAu II Allll -
days supply This would mean seven
hundred and fifty thousand tons New
York takes, according 10 the estimate
OF , Seward, a total OF about twelve
million tons "a year. Coal men agree
TIA, q, is safe 90 say that We consume
at least nine million tons of anthracite
here Some bitumInous coal is used.
M spite NJ the health board
Big railroad companies, the Delaware,
LackaWauna and Western Pennsyl-
'an.a, New Jersey Central. represent
ed by the Lehigh and WilkesbarTe Coal
company the Lehigh Valley. Delaware
and Hudson. Erie and Philadelphia
and Reading and other operating con-
Germs are estimated 10 have IN their
yards IN Oh.
hers, an amount equivalent 10 about
llleen days supply for the city.
lcanu0t speak for other companies
f4ll John Edmonds sales agent Of the
Philadelphia and Reading, hut our
stocks at present are light The deal
efs. ] believe. are fairly well supplied.
should think they must have at least
mirly days supply on hand. As 90
no" long the strike is likely to last, or
what the price Us likely "a climb TO,
mat is am conjecture. No one can
teII gUrfhIUw Dhout 10 "