Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-21
Friday Morning, September FL, 1917.
The Price of Coal

Bisbee citizens will watch with close interest the in
vestigation by city council the retail prices of
coal in this district ordinary plug citizen get
ting positively savage. His bread meat, sugar. lumber
and drygoods have gone up to prices that he is
standing tiptoes to reach with the tips of his
fingers and his purse groans like dying every
time he reaches upward for something to keep the
breath of life in his POOR carcase
Now comes the coal man and hits him the finishing
blow Coal selling Bsbee right for seventeen
and eighteen dollars That is awful price to
pay 1t is too high Wilson fixed the price of
New Mexico coal at $40 per ton the mine The
freight from Dawson to Bsbee is s56S That would
make this coal eight dollars ton in the railroad
yards Bsbee. Smewhere between producer and
transporter and consumer some is making dal
lars ton on COAL the hauling it to the
cellar
Coal selling Paso $3.50 per and it costs
only $40 more for freight per ton Bisbee than
costs to haul New Mexico coal Ell Paso. In other
words adjusting difference freight coal
is selling here for seven dollars per than in
e. PasoS
No wonder the Bsbee council is investigating the
prices of coal 1t is a necessity in winter The work
ing have coal matter what the price If the
president nation midst of tremendous
responsibilities by war; it I'M
porant enough stop investigate regulate the
coal prices the Bisbee the time and
bow to the Importance of the matter of fuel
Cost of production freight rates and have had all
the odum of high prices fixed upon them, but
else also getting his their dig out of the consumer
The prices for necessities beyond all If the
raises the cost of production three cents the
pound the final the consumer hoisted six
cents
The submarine has made transportation by
costly and the demands the allies have
urally prices commodities and
stiles. War times high prices the world over and
have always done So High prices mean higher wages
and more demand for labor. But where the consumer
back his hndegs begins howl is that
point the prices pass all and boundaries
England and France, importing their wheat, pay
ing for bread than America the
of wheat
If the of producing beans has increased and
the times conditions increase of two
per pound for this manstay of the poor man.
objects. but why tack per pound adj
dtonal charge all in the name of the war? Who gets
the additional five cents?
If gets killed in boiler explosion dies from
drinking bootleg whisky, lays his death to the
war
The Review trusts that from the councils investigations
of the price of coal something definite material may
be accomplished that will result in relief the into
cradle burden of high prices there other remedy
let them establish municipal coal yard. buying many
cars a week and selling delivering this coal
at plus profit that is fair reasonable
that any private individual may compete with this yard
still make good living.
The actual figures this coal proposition stag
gering, and So doubt, would be figures dozen
other necessities being sold profits
somewhere along the line
Boy page Mr. Hoover also the coal committee of the
Bsbee city council