The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-18
COAL IS WATERING.
Notice Of Increase in Wholesale
Price Received.

Coal seems to have begun to show
the symptoms of another advance. Mr..
Jack, the big operator of the Bur
ingame mines, has notified Topeka
henceforth be $40 instead of $2.S as
it was a few days ago.
So far the local dealers have not
made a proportional advance, but it Is
said to be likely to come at any time.
Burlingame is now selling at $3.50.
Topeka coal men who do any whole
sailing are sending great deal of coal
to western Kansas. but one of the
wholesalers said today that he did not
think much was being sent to Colo
RADIO yet. Out in western Kansas the
local dealers are reported to be mark
ing up the price every day, and some
of them are unable to obtain coal at any
price.
A local dealer said today: ST am in
formed that the Kansas City Southern
and the Frisco have posted a notice
that no coal cars of their own system
shall be henceforth allowed to go off
the system with coal. This seems to
be for the purpose of keeping their
own cars of coal on their own lines,
where it will be handy to confiscate in
case of need The Frisco and the
Kansas City Southern do an immense
traffic in Weir City and southern Kan
sas coal and in Arkansas coal. It will
have tendency to raise the price of
these kinds of coal. All coal which
order was issued is understood to have
been excepted from this rule. but
henceforth there must be no coal billed
off the line"
What the local dealers fear most of
all is a strike at the Kansas mines. In
case John Mitchell finds that Kansas
coal is being sent to Colorado for the
purpose of keeping up the supply ous
there, thereby making it difficult for
the Colorado coal miners to win their
fight, he is likely to call out the Kan
sas miners and thereby tie everything
up in this section.
The reports from Colorado are some
what conflicting. Here is one dispatch
from Denver which makes it appear
that the supply of coal is ample:
Denver, Colo, Nov. live are not
coal from the east said General Man
ager J. F. Welborn of the Colorado F'uel
& Iron company today, for the reason
| that our supply is ample. We have
more miners working now than at any
time since the strike began and each
day adds to our output
In Pueblo, too, the situation seems to
be good. according to the following dis
patch:
1.-THE cold wave last night brought two
inches of snow, with temperature only 4
degrees below zero but there is as yet
ticaIly no shortage the dealers having
abundance in storage Great quantities
of coal have been stored by firms and fac
tories during the last month in anticipa-
ton of the strike and the Rio Grande
| railway has piles of coal several hundred
feet long,
Today's Associated Press dispatches
| from Denver. are not so encouraging Il
seems that the supply of fuel is short.
| Denver. Col, Nov. 1S.-Three degrees
above zero was the official low tempera-
ture record in Denver this morning. Al
Pueblo the thermometer touched zero an6
mountain towns report temperatures run
ming from 10 to IS below zero. Many fam
HES are short of coal and retail dealers
in this city and otehr towns can not fl
their orders until coal arrives from the
| east The large companies which stu.
have a stock of coal in storage are taking
not supply others promptly"