The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-11-25
MORE CHANGES II
zONING Of GOAL
MINED N VIVA.
Fuel Administration Help
ing Miners to Get Out
Of Army.

with the storage limit Of bituminous
coal It appears that coal Is getting
more plentiful than it had been when
The war was on In full blast
the order which J. Walter Barnes
state fuel administrators, received rom
tie United States fuel Sdminfstratloon1 2,
washington, In part It as follows: Az
storage restriction on bituntnous coal
has been removed In conformity 70 me
action fthe War Industries board Z!
cancellinE its preferential Industrial
ist. Anthracite coal Is not aHecteo'
however, by the ruling fthe fuel 40
7nfnistratfon- Every industry and every
householder IL the country may no"
store as much bituminous coal as de-
sired, which eliminates any Of the So
called "hoarding" features
The order also states 'Au industries
located farthest from Distribution
points. particularly those in New Eng
land and IN the northwest, are tound
NOT only to be well stocked, In &C
cordarce with fuel administrator
specifications, but in many cases have
surpluses above those amount
5IacIesmithing Ceai.
By the modification on coal LOT
blacksmitning purposes Zone ?, IN
which the Fairmont region is located,
free shipment o fthis coal is now az
lowed. All restrictions being removed,
this will permit this coal found IN the
Kevser section OF the Fairmont region
to be placed on the market anywhere
Zone Modified.
Today J. Walter Barnes, state fuel
administrator, received an order To
he effect that because of the cangest-
ID transportation conditions OF the B.
4 o. railroad, eastward, and its ina:
bility to hands the coal tonnage from
certain districts Zones L and NJ wotN.
be modified
The producing districts affected are
those known as the Kanawha 6 Mich
Izaa the Kenawha districts on the e.
& o., the Guyan Valley and the Logan
districts on THE c. s. o., and the Ken
ova-Thacker districts on the Norfolk
and western railroad, all IN west Vir-
GINA, and the Sandy Valley and Elk
horn districts in Kentucky Producers
in those districts are no Epermtttea
to ship coal into portion OF Indiana,
however, must be confined to coal for
industrial plants.
The Car Supply.
There are a total Of S035 cars in the
region today. The placement at
o'clock this morning was 1915. This
means full run OF cars for practically
everybody. The cars in the region
today are classified as follows: Open,
1914: teamtrack, 30; coke. IS.
Saturdays Loading.
The loading on Saturday to:alled s65-
OF this $50 Coal and Il coke cars were
sent east and IS coal and % coke cars
SEINE "FEu" About.
A number OF cases of 'fiu" have
broken out at Crona mine OF the
C1arksburg Industrial Company. The
situation Is not alarming. but appears
to be a temperance OF the disease
Men Back at Work.
Miners who went out on a strike
last week at Rock Island mine, near
Philippi, have gone to work pending
an adjustment Of their grievances.
They were out for several days.
United Mine Workers.
H. T. Wilson, organizer, will adj
ddres a meeting OF the miners union
at Baxter tonight In the school house.
Robert Peters. organizer. Will, this
evening deliver an address at meet
ing Of miners at the Watson school
rouse.
c. F. Keeney. president of District
II, United Mine Workers. will arrive
in Fai-mont from Charleston on
Thursday
CcaI Notes.
To faciliatate the movement back
to the mines OF those anthracite nina
workers now IN the United States
army, who will be Immediately dis
charged to return to the anthracite
industry, the United States Fuel adj
1t was announced today,
has sent representatives to Camp Dix,
New Jersey, Camp Meade, Maryland,
and Camps Lee and Humphreys, Vir-
GINA. Information will be given to
soIdier.miners as to the opportunities
OF employment and wages, scales and
all precautions will be taken to keep
all representatives from individual
companies from entering the camps.
Latest reports show that the pro-
duction of anthracite coal continues
to slump. It has been go reduced by
various causes that no wit IS nearly
100, 900 net tons behind the daily av-
erage production OF last year.
Captain Melville s. Pagan, Of the
British army, who had been In the
Fairmont region for six weeks for the
purpose Of stimulating production, has
returned to Washington, D. c. He adj
dressed thousands fminers In the
Fairmont region