The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-09-01
NOW WI WILL OBSERVE
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Today. although We Admit The world
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Conditions have arisen through IL
which have made possible that which
a year or NO ago would have been
deemed Impossible, o. Al least rank
Socialism. The government o. the
United States has. b. not m<h more
than = scratch Of a pen. backed b. the
viii Of the people. told coal operators
What they may charge for their pro
duct And the government At the same
time announces that It viii enforce
adherence 70 these prices. using what
ever display Of power may be neces
sary.
For more than twenty yesrs-eYer
since the festive days Of Mark Hanna
Nevada, along with the other Of the
United States. has been RECALLED with
stories Of coal shortage. labor trou
bles. and scarity of railroad cars
which made delivery Of the nation
coal supply restricted. Therefore the
people had 10 pay higher prices for
u,.f .rI f4r Fr1fvIF Than hfQhlf
prices. Then higher prices. OF late
years, when Investigations have been
instituted and legislation attempted
20 stop this bald robbery. the coal
barons." secure in their %highwayery.
have merely laughed at the people.
Year after year We have been treat
ed to stories Of strikes (procured
strikegD early in the season. Then
came the plea Of "car shortage" which
lasted until about the first of April.
when the railroads, one and all, BY
"superhuman efforts" had at last got
ten cars sufficiently well into cireula-
ton to supply all demands for coal
and it would never happen again-and
shippers we're at fault for holding
cars-and all the rest of the old, old
story. These nobody but in
fants believed. They were hollow
mockery. They were only a form-and
the operators believed the form to be
unnecessary.
Under the provisions Of the recent
ly-enacted food-control bill, President
Wilson has fixed prices, at the mines,
OF bituminoug, or soft" coal They
are in black and white, for all TO read.
and they will be enforced This win
ter. If another car shortage" arise
(plans for which a now be detected
In news" handed out by railroad cor
porationsi), the government is pre-
pared to tell the railroads what they
may do and what they must do, ard
is determined to enforce its mandates.
The best coal must be sold for 1886
per ton at Utah mines. Now let As
observe the railroads!
Subsequent measures" the Presi-
dent says, will have as their object
a fair and equitable control of the
distribution of the supply and of the
prices, not only at the mines, but also
in the hands Of the middIemen and the
retailers. The prices Professionally
fixed here are fixed by my authority.
under the provisions of the recent act
of Congress regarding administration
of the food supply of the country,
which also conferred upon the Execu-
tive control of the food supply. They
are based upon the actual cost Of pro
duction and are deemed to be not only
fair and Just, but liberal as well. I'm
der them the industry should nowhere
lack stimulation"
The following is an abridged list Of
the prices fixed. which are on fob.
mine bases for tons of 1000 pounds:
Slack
Run Pre- or
Locality OF pared screen