The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-05-10
TAKE TIME BY THE FORELOCK

Washington people must provide
for their years fuel needs now, OF
go without next winter. That is the
solemn warning of the Fuel Admin
istrator for Washington, David Whit.
comb. And there is no fooling or ex-
agegration about it, he declares.
Whatever else there may be in
favor of buying your years supply OF
fuel now, transportation is the prin.
cipal factor that makes it an absolute
necessity" he asserts.
| "The cars which have been hauling
coal from the mines to the consumers
of Washington are being gradually
drained from this state into the East
and, once back there, there is little
| chance to get them out here again.
For, whatever our need may be next
winter, the East is short of coal at
| this minute, and our claims for a re-
turn of our rolling stock are likely to
of the pressing need of the East now.
THE consumer who hasn't suffici-
ent bin space to accommodate his
years supply of coal. should enlarge
it Immediately. If he hasn't the
money on hand to purchase now, he
should borrow it somewhere or other.
But above all, he should buy fuel now
!-or run a good chance of freezing
next winter
Information regarding the storage
qualities of Washington Goals has
been gathered by the Fuel Admins
traitor from several representative
operators of the states and from ex-
perts of the University of Washing
ton College of Mines and the United
States Bureau of Mines, which may be
summarized as follows;
Most Washington coats prepared for
domestic use will stofe with entire
safety, and with slight deterioration
!. in any quantity that dealer may wish
to carry in stock or that any domestic
consumer will put into his coal bin.
Coarse sizes of the Lewis and Thurs
ton counties sub-bit,mnous Goals,
which are the only practicable domes-
tic Goals from that field, will slack
and deteriorate in the open air but
will change very little if put into COW
cred bins and boarded up. A leading
operator in the field advises against
putting in coal of this kind before
August.
The smaller sizes of the King
County sub-btuminous, Goals are not
fit for storage without special cooling
arrangements. What are known as
the lump-nut sizes froutshis field, and
the lump-egg-nut sizes of the Queen
coal and of the Roslyn coal from the
Roslyn Fuel Company's Summit mine,
deteriorate slightly more in storage
! than do the other coats in the King,
Pierce and Kittitas county fields, but
in no case is this deterioration serious
if the coal is given proper prepara
tion at the mine. Care should be
taken, however, to prevent the miv-
ing of bituminous coal with sub-bitu-
minous coal from King, Lewis or
Thurston counties.
Three representatives of the coal
operators of the state, in a statement
to the Fuel Administrator, have SAID:
''It is our opinion that any coal eX-
cept anthracite stored in the open air
for any length of time will lose a per-
centage of heat value, the percentage
of loss depending on the physical ma
ture and chemical analysis.
"It is also our opinion that any coal
can be stored if distributed over a
proper area at a depth of not ovei
eight feet with ventilation under
meath"