The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-01-16
The Situation.

The Situation.
Anthracite coal is selling at fourteen
dollars and City cents per ton in this
city and all indications now are thas it
will be boosted point or two in price
before many days have passed. In cities
about US it is even selling at higher
f1gure and dealers opine that the outlook
for securing more is most discouraging.
In many instances in Edgerton coal bins
were supplied earlier in the season with
sufficient amount to last up to the
middle of January and it looks now as
though great many would have to re-
sort to wood or let the house plants
freeze. Wood here is plentiful and is
selling at five and half dollars per cord.
Mondays Milwaukee papers contained
proposition from Il. c. Whittet of this
city to furnish Milwaukee with from
one to five hundred cords of wood at
tive dollars and fifty cents per cord, f. o.
b., Edgerton. Mr.. Whittet stated that
ne was willing to sell the wood at cost
for charity's sake. A few citizens have
been interviewed regarding the coal sit
uation and following is what they had
to say:
GEORGE w. DoTY:-The mayors face
bore lucid smile when the coal situa-
ton was mentioned to him. "Of course
l realize the serious condition which
confronts the entire country at present
regarding coal, said the mayor, "but in
this immediate vicinity there is no great
cause for alarm. Wood is plenty and
reasonably cheap. At present l am run
ming two coal stoves, but have only nine
teen hundred pounds of coal in the bin.
Ii cannot get more when that's gone,
vi go to burning wood. | have few
cords at the house and more on the farm
to cut, so personally don't worry"
HENRY JoHNsoN;-City Clerk John
son said his coal bin did not present as
healthy and long-lasting appearance as
in former years. but with economical
usage and day now and then of moder-
ate weather the supply might hold out
until the March billiards had swooned.
The few tons which Mr.. johnson has in
stock cost him somewhere in the neigh
borhood of sixteen dollars per. 1t is
hard coal at hard prices, but Mr.. John
son had no word of complaint to offer.
JOHN HENDERsoN:-A travelling man
asked Mr.. Henderson why the door to
the gentlemen's waiting room at the de-
pot was kept locked? Simply to save
coal" was the reply. "We can't afford
to fire two waiting rooms when coal is
out of sight. The st. Paul company has
ordered one waiting room closed in each
depot on their line. So, you see, great
corporations are suffering from the short
coal supply as we'll as private individ-
uals."
It. A. PERRY:-Soft coal in the furnace
makes anything but pleasant faces at
our house. It will cost twenty five dol
lars to clean the house next spring after
the furnace fire has gone out, and there
is no limit to the amount of damage
which the smoke and SCOT will do to the
furniture, curtains and carpets. But
what are you going to do in this zero
weather when it is the Only available
fuel? ~
Howard LEE: eff I were to expatiate
upon the happy and contented condition
of every inhabtant who dwells within
the confines of the valley city on the
picturesque banks of the roaring Catfish,
my narrative would vet be unfinished
when the funeral knell of the last coal
barron on earth was rung," said the sage
of Fulton when asked as to the condi-
ton of the coal situation in his town.
1.-THE winters cold finds not it's way into
Fulton homes, for every CRATE is aglow
with flaming Goals, and you can say that
we are all comfortable and contented
with our own lot. But we deeply de-
plore the fireless condition of the many
homes made so by the recent unpleasant
condition of the coal situation"