New Britain herald., 1918-05-29

classes mentioned ascertain his fuel requirem ents for the coming year. Do this at once. Order sufficient coal to meet those requirements. Place your orders at once. If domestic con- sumers have not sufficient storage space for the coal they will need, they should enlarge their bins. If public utilities and industries engaged upon government work have not sufficient storage space, they should at once provide it.
 Must Not Lose Day.
 The production of coal in this coun- try is fundamentally d transportation problem. There are enough coal cars and enough locom motives to transport the necessary quantity of coal, only if every car and every locomotive is used to it's maximum capacity every day in the year. There are enough operatives in the mines to get the coal from the ground, if those operatives can work every day in the year, and If the coal cars and locom olives are available every day. If the coal cars are idle for a. week or a month, the result is a loss of a weeks or a
 
 There is no way to make up this loss. The country needs the greatest utiliza- ton of the coal-carrNing facilities every week and every month. It has no surplus cars and no surplus loco motives to carry more coal in a .suc- ceeding month, to make up for the failure to use the existing cars and locomotives in d preceding month.
 
 conditions, greatetr quantity of coal can be transported each day from April to November than is possible in each day from November to March. Conditions adverse to coal transporta- tion are sure to exist every winter. Such. adverse conditions were un- usually severe and continued in the winter just passed. To an appre- ciable degree, however, they have existed every winter, and it is the part of folly to suppose they will not be en- countered next winter.
 There is Plenty of Coal.
 There is plenty of coal in the ground to meet every need. This coal can be taken from the ground only in conse- duence of orders placed with the operators. If those orders are delayed the coal remains where nature has put it. Coal operators have no other stor- age space for their coal. Even if such storage space existed, it would be of little benefit. The coal might as we'll remain ill the mines as be stored at the mouth of the mines. In either case, to be used it must be transported to the points where needed. Conse- quently it must be loaded on coal cars, and this is equally necessary whether the coal is taken directly from the mine to the car, or taken from a storage pile at the mines mouth to the car. Unless the opera tors have orders for their coal they cannot load the coal cars nor will the coal cars be placed at their mines. Without orders for coal the operators cannot ship it, for they can give no directions where it should be taken
 With the exception of limited stor- age capacity in retail dealers yards, there arc only three places where coal can be kept First, in the ground where it has always been. and where it must remain until mined and loaded into cars Second, in the cars them selves, where, unless those cars are promptly moved to their destination and unloaded it is a hlndrance to transportation block ing up tracks. and yards already oVertaxed and sadly needed for trans portation of other commodities Third in the coal bins of domestic consumers, and in the coal piles of in- dustrlal users. The value of coal as fuel begins only when it reaches the third place. The fuel problem is to get the coal from the first place of de- poslt to the final place of deposit with as little delay as possible, and in as steady and continuous 8 stream as cir cunstances. will permit
 The railroads may be compared to water pipe, w hich needs to run full all the time to. carry the necessary amount of water to it's destination If that water is shut off for any appre- clable time, it means an ultimate shortage. The pipe can carry no more than it's maximum capacity per day.
 inconvenience of paying for coal in the spring or summer, when 1t will not be needed until autumn or win- ter, should not influence any consum CT to delay placing his order and secur- ing his supply. It is far wiser to borrow money in the spring to pay for ones coal than to wait until autumn or winter, when If the coal has not been mined and shipped, money can- not procure it.
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