Arizona republican., 1917-08-24
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Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

WASHINGTON. Aug 23.-Govern- ment control of the coal industry was made almost complete tonight when President Wilson named Dr. H. A. Gar field, president of Williams college, fuel administrator fixed anthracite prices for producers and jobbers and set a limit on profits to be made by bituminous wholesalers.
 The next and final step will be to make regulations for coal distribution and to fix anthracite and bitumious re- tail prices This will be done when distribution program is perfected and when the federal trade commission has completed a plan under which retail profits may be fixed.
 The anthracite prices fixed effective September 1 are virtually the same as those now charged at the mines under q voluntary arrangement made by pro- ducers with the trade commission. The prices that may be charged by jobbers, however, will reduce present costs sharply. Bituminous jobbers' profits, too will be, cut by the new price scale set for wholesale transactions.
 The anthracite scale for railroad owned mines which include practically all the big producers, follows:
 The anthracite prices effective Sep tember l range from S4 to 8 per ton (224O pounds) f. O. b. mipes. Jobbers are allowed to add a profit or not more than 20 cents per ton for deliveries east of Buffalo and of not more than 30 cents west of Buffalo
 The jobbers profit on bituminous is limited to fifteen cents per ton of 2,O00 pounds, wherever delivered
 Producers who incur the expense for re-screening anthracite at Atlantic or lake ports for re-shipment by water are permitted to add not more than i've cents per ton to the price.
 Anthracite prices are fixed as fol- lows:
 White Ash, broken, s4.55; egg. $4.45: stove, s4.70: chestnut, s4S0 pea, s4.00.
 Red Ash, broken, $4.75 eggs. S4.90; stove, s49O; chestnut. s490, pea. $40.
 Lykens valley. broken, s5; egg. s4.90; stove, s5.30; chestnut, $5.30; pea, $4.35
 Other producers may charge an advance of 75 cents a ton of 2240 pounds over the prices set for railroad owned mine. Those who incur the expense of re-screening it at Atlantic or lake ports may add an additional , cents a ton. Anthracite jobbers deliv erirg coal at Buffalo and points east
 
 profit of 20 cents a ton of 2.240 pounds, and those delivering it west of Buff falo may charge an excess of 30 cents. The combined gross profits of any number of jobbers handling ship ment, must not exceed the limit of profit set for a single jobber except that a screening charge of cents may be made on water shipments at Atian- tic or lake ports
 Bituminous profits for jobbers are fixed at 15 cents a ton of 1000 pounds, and the same restrictions that govern dealings by a number of anthracite jobbers apply to bituminous transac- tions. The presidents order forbids dealers from selling coal produced by rair oad owned mine on a basis of prices fixed for other mines. The bituminous jobbers prices be- come effective immediately
 The coal administration will be or ganized as soon as Dr. Garfield has completed his work of recommending to the food administration a govern ment price for the 1917 wheat crop. Dr. Garfield's price fixing committee (Continued on Page Two)