The sun., 1912-08-10
|COAl FAMINE COMING,
SAY LOCAL DEALERS
Anthracite Prices Up Already,
With Winter Deliveries
in Doubt.
TWO SHORTAGE REASONS
Mines Shut Down for Two
Months and Cannot Operate
to Capacity.

If you haven't "A good supply of coal IN
your cellar to carry you through the win.
ter the chances are that you may have 10
suffer from the cold. for the big wholesale
dealers all agrre that there is a serious
shortage even now and that they don't
know where they are going to get any
coal to fiji the food of orders that will
begin to pour in next month
Even the prudent house keepers who
have placed their winter orders have been
informed that there IL no coal in the yards
and that nobody knows when there will
I've any.
There is only one guess as to what enec,
the ituat ion will have on the price Of
anthracite coal, which already is soaring.
II costs 81. .85 a ton to have egg or stove
coal delivered to your house now. and 81 40
for chestnut. The big dealers al promise
that they will not take advantage Of the
famine to boost up the price but they al
nit that the small retailer will certainly
| do so.
There is normally boost Of 10 cents or
so ton in September and this year there
il small doubt that coal will be selling FOR
at least s. a ton in the early fall before
the cold weather starts in. Nobody
seems willing to venture what figure il
will reach later on.
The big dealers who are in touch with
the real situation attribute the shortage
to two things the fact that mines were
shu, down for two months during April
and May and that even now the mines
cannot operate to their full capacity for
the reason that when the coal strike was
threatened many of the miners went to
their homes on the Cont tinent and haven't
come back, leaving the mines with an
inadequate force of men. Various esti-
mates place the loss Of unmined coal
which was caused by the suspension at
between 10.OOO.OOO and IL 600. .OOJ tons. and
it would have been impossible. say the
dc alcls, to make this up even with the
mines running full force. let alone under
their present restricted operations.
One dealer said yesterday that many
of the retailers who never knew what it
was to have their yards empty are in that
situation now and that they are unable to
supply coal to any one. no matter whether
or not he be an old customer. Every one
who applies for coal is told that there is
none and that no one knows when any
will come.
Because most OF the coal which is con-
surncd now is for use in ranges. the stove
variety is the kind that is particularly
snoTl a, presem., nut ~ ~ sa,u siau ",Sa ,Sn
i larger sizes they will be equally scant.
; The scarcity is not local. but applies 10
the whole country. said one informant.
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