The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-06-28
Consumers Can Help Prevent
Shortage Next Winter by
Buying Now, Says Fuel
Administrator.
GARFIELD SOUNDS WARNING.
Better Borrow Money Now to Buy
Than Do Without Later, He Says-if
Your Storage Space Isn't Large
Enough, Enlarge II.
BY HARRY A. GARFIELD,
United States Fuel Administrator

United States Fuel Administrator.
Every householder, every public util-
ity and every Industrial user of coal
engaged in work essential to the prose-
yised and urged to place without de-
lay their orders for coal to cover their
needs for the i months beginning
April l.
During the past II months there has
been suffering among consumers and
curtailment OF essential production by
industries through inability to obtain
necessary fuel after the beginning of
winter A year ago consumers were
led to believe that they might safely
withhold their orders until later in the
year. They labored under the impress
sion that coal could be bought and Sc
cured as we'll at one time as another.
They were told that there was plenty
of coal for everybody and that there
would be plenty OF coal cars to move
the coal In also.
This advice and its acceptance by
consumers was one of the contributing
,.,,,so, 90 .,o ooo, shor,ooo ,,;,h ito
'o"Heiueht Su'ieii'i7 ""'o"e uo'i'''i|
consumers and lesSening in production
of commodities needed In our war ac-
tivities
,r, ~, ,,,,,,z.,,
'heil In existence ana 'ln not oeslh its
"orh uhtii august - II WIS ''ieii al
reauS 100 Iate '" |'"'" '"e ""iHl WHICH
hau Deeh uohe' me "'l A"illliSlra-
tloil "ouiu NC "'-''''''' VI us ""'s W
| the puDllc IL IL l'ii'l !" 'a'i a'tehtloi
at this tiihe 10 III" uH'"r'1''"'e results
Oh the mistaken course iu'~Heu ps the
| publc Il year ago a"d 10 warn all con-
sumerS in the most emphatic manner
possible that repetition OF those re-
ana acting Immediately upon the F'uel
Administrations advice, here given:
Order Your Coal at Once.
LOT avary consumer of tho c,ossea
oout,on.d ,s,artoin his fna, r.ouir..
| mont. for mo c,mino yeor Ia thiS
~ ouc. Order sufficient coal to m.nt
! ihos, r.ouira,nen,S Place your orders
,t nnrn If domestic consumers haye
nor sufficient storage SPACE for the
rool ,hnv will need they should on.
I,r,,o tbair hins II nuhlic utilities and
industries engaged upon government
work boye not sufficient storage space
they should at once provide it.
The production of coal in this coun-
try is fundamentally transportation
problem. There are enough coal cars
and enough locomotives to transport
the necessary quantity or coal, only II
every ear ana every locomotive Is
used to its maximum capacity every
Jay in the year. Ihere are enough
operatives in the mines 10 get the coal
from the ground IL those operatives
can work every day III the year ana II
the coai cars "h" ioNo'"''''
available every uay.
The fuel proolen Is 10 get ''e 'o'i
from the nrst piace ol uepos,t u 'he
final place OF deposit Win us niue ue-
lay as possiDie ana III as s'eaus anu
continuous stream as circumstances
will permit Ihe railroads may De
compared to water pipe which heeus
to run full all the time TO carry the
necessary amount or water 10 It's des-
tination. If that water Is smut OH Tor
any appreciable time IL means an uiti-
mate shortage. Ihe pipe can carry no
more than Its maximum capacity per
day.
Borrow, II You Must.
Inconvenience of paying for coal in
the spring or summer when it Will not
he needed until autumn or winter
should not influence any consumer to