Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1918-03-14
Anthracite To Be Thirty Cents
Per Ton Cheaper From April
to September
SUPPLY IS SUFFICIENT
Fuel Administration Announces Con.
sumers' Needs For Next Winter
Can Be Supplied-To Use
Card System.

Washington, March 1.-THE United
States fuel administration announces
regulations for the retail distribution
OF coal for the year beginning April l.
Anthracite coal will be so cents
ton cheaper from April to September
l. Prices will run generally from So
to $40 a ton, according to the locality
be met
The fuel administration adopted
different scale from the old one, which
provided sliding scale of SO, 40, 80,
20 and 10 cents, a ton less for the
months Of April. May, June, July and
August.
Every consumer is assured of a suf-
ffcient supply for his next winters
needs at stated prices for every Sec
tion Of the country.
Penalties Against Hoarding.
Penalties are provided against
boarding and against false statments
of requirements.
Certificates and card systems will
be put into operation. Retailers and
consumers will be required to specify
the coal on hand, their normal con-
sumption and their needs. There can
be no Juggling of the reports.
Definite instructions will follow
probably within a few days to each
state administrator and through him
to each community. to make public
announcement of the prices that the
FOR
There will be stabilized prices in
each city and community; persons in
one section of city cannot be
charged more than those in another.
The consuming public-the man who
has no time to make specific inquiry
as to what coal should cost-will have
figures before him that the retailers
must observe. The retailer can charge
only one price, which must include
delivery. Strict injunction will go to
every administrator to enforce the
new regulations to the letter.
Regulations Made.
"1he regulations provide:
every consumer should be Urged
on or before April to place with his
regular dealer his order for his reas-
enable normal requirements for the
year ending March 81, 1919. The deal
ers shall make deliveries until each
consumer has received twothirds of
his normal annual requirements, pro-
vided that orders of six tons or under
may be filled in full.
| Consumers who are unable to have
their orders accepted by a dealer
should apply to the local fuel admins
tration. Dealers shall file on the first
1iveries.
Until further notice no domestic
consumer of coal or coke shall pur-
chase or obtain more coal or coke than
is required for his actual use prior
to March 81. If he has supply, he
Shall receive such additional amount
as to make up his requirements.
| Check on Coal Users.
mo person, firm or corporation
shall sell or deliver coal to a domestic
consumer who does not at first fur
nish Il statement which specifies the
amount the consumer has on hand,
amount on order and the person from
whom ordered, amount used in the IL
months ending March 81, 1918, and the
amount needed to meet his necessary
requirements provided that this may
be modified by any state administra-
tor under proper circumstances.
carload or barge load lots shall
not be delivered to a single domestic
consumer or to group of CONSUME
ers, except with the permission of the
local administrator"