The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1918-04-05
COAL DEALERS MARGINS
DEFINED BY FEDERAL
FUEL ADMINISTRATOR
Violation Subjects Dealer to $4,000
Fine and Two Years I'm
prisOnment.

Because violations had been call
ed to the attention of Federal Fuel
Administrator for Washington, Mr..
David Whitcomb, he sent out the
following circular this week:
1t appearing to the Federal Fuel
Administrator for Washington that
excessive prices or margins are be-
ing received by coal dealers in GER
tain communities in the State of
Washington, the Feleral Fuel Ad-
ministrator for Washington herewi'
issues a retail margin fixing ord
applicable only to those commun t't
in which the maximum retail pri
or margins receivable by dealers Or
sales of coal to the consumer have
not been previously defined by
special order of the State Admins
traitor. This order shall remain eff
fective pending final revision of re-
tail. margins and prices for the en-
tire state, which will be completed
during the month of April 1918.
The order is as follows:
Effective Monday, April 1, 1918,
and until further notice, the maxi
mum margins which the retail coal
dealers in the territory above de
fined shall be permitted to receive,
shall be determined as follows:
Sales from car-On sales of coal
from the car, the dealer may add
to the prime cost of the coal as
hereinafter defined, sum not to eX-
ceed S1.45 per ton of 1000 pounds:
Except that dealers who on March
20, 1918, were actually receiving
a margin of less than SLAB per ton
on such sales may not in any case
increase that margin, except by
special permit from the Federal Fuel
Administrator for Washington.
Sales from dealers bin or bunker
On sales of coal from the dealers
bin OF bunker, the dealer may add
to the prime cost of the coal as
hereinafter defined, sum not to eX-
ceed $500 per ton of 1000 pounds.
Except, that on March 20, 1918, were
actually receiving a margin Of less
than $500 per ton on such sales,
may not in any case increase that
margin without special permit from
the Federal Fuel Administrator for
Washington.
Delivery charges-The margins
here named do not include delivery
charges. Delivery charges may be
added to the margins specified in
this order.
Prime cost-The prime cost of
coal, as understood in this order,
shall be the cost of the coal at the
mine or as purchased from a job
ber, plus the freight and switching
charges, including the war tax on
freight charges. In no case may
the price charged the dealer by the
United States Fuel Administrator
on the grade and variety of coal
involved in the transaction.
A charge of Is cents per ton as
purchasing agents commission may
not be included in the prime cost
without special authorization from
the Federal Administrator for Wash
ington.
Penalty - "Whoever shall, with
knowledge that the prices of any
such commodity having been fixed
as herein provided, ask, demand, or
receive a higher price, or whoever
SHALL with knowledge that the re-
gulations have been prescribed as
herein provided, violate or refuse to
conform to any of the same, shall
upon conviction, be punished by fine
of not more than $4,000, or, by I'M
prisonment of not more than
years, or both Each independe
transaction shall constitute a SCI
ate affence."
David Whitcomb,
Federal Fuel Administrator
for Washington
Dated at Seattle, Washington,
March the Twenty-ninth, Nineteen
Hundred and Eighteen.