The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1919-01-24

ported 10y forty nine hundred and
iHNiy-ioUr mines the country uy1.
with o total production of G.3l1.16u
net TONS aud pr, sent capacity ut =.
4Og4J' NET tons. during the we, 4,
ended january 4'h. shows the opera.
tors reporting produced 1j per cent
OF the total estimated output. tu,
minos being operated at 7I.G Der cent
lot their iull time. ~ compared with
l5sl PET cent during Christmas Wees
aud '3.l pcr cen during the comes
lpondiug week eli lqlS The preatcsi
Improvement urrMrcd during ia,
week ~ labor conditions. the lusse
LOT full time attributed thereto de-.
Ginning nom 49, per cent during ~
week eli December 2Sth. to 80 per
lccnt Tor the country ~ whole. Mar.
Vet conditions also improved. The losf
loi full time attributed to tina, cause
changing irum ~ ~ L. Der cent.
insincss conditions continued to be
good m Pennsylvania. the operators
IA the western district covering the
only field m which loss Of time on ac.
count al No mikct was reported.
This loss WIS, however. slight. amt
Inmomtcd To hui 2'pcr cent of thei
full time Noticeable improvement
occurrcd during the week in trans
portuiiun cunditiofs Nv the Somerset
county, Pa. and IN the New River
aud Winding Gulp districts of West
Virginia. Carriers reports Tor the
week ended January 18th show ~.
crease IA ears loaded in all district ,
compared with the week preceding.
The greatest increases occurred In,
Central Pennsylvania, Ohio and the
district including Illinois. lndiann
and Western Kentucky In the La.
named district. the increase amounted
to l0,jOO ears ot approximately 10
Iprr cent
Bitununous cnn' 10 New England
during the week ended January 1T
Is estimated NJ 2j5.35j net tons. ap
proximatcly forty thousand net tons
Tor ~ per cent below the shipments
during the week preceding. Rail r..
lccipis, ~ wen as tidowntcr shin.
tncnls, with the exception OF the ton
nagc loaded nj Baltimore, declined
during the current week. 4 decrease
~ iidcwatcr shipments of approx
malely $4,000 net tons or IL per cent
during the week ended January nth
~ compared with the week preceding
was brought about by the decline Ia
shipments from New York and philn.
delphin which amounted a. 80 pc-
Ierni, The shipments from Ballimnrr
Wcrc onlN slightly lower than the
week preceding. while shipments from
Hampton Roads exceeded those 81
January ith by twenty thousand me-
tons or . per cent
Production Figures.
The output of foft coal during the
week ended January 18th was cX.
ceedingly good md Ia addition la cX.
cecding the output OF the week pre-
ceding' showed an improvement oven
he corresponding week of 1918 Pre-.
limlunry estimate place production
Ioi biiumlnous eOnl, (including Ignite
and coal made into cokel, during the
week ended Jnnuiry llth nj lO.2s7,.
200 net tons NJ compared with s,42S,-
600 net tons during the week of Jan
nary 18th, and lO,iG3,00O net tons dur.
Ing the week of january n. 1917
The daily average during the current
week Is estimated at l,7i5.0O0 net
Ions as against : 500 .0O0 net tons the
daily average for the coal wear Ia
date, and 100000 net tons for IA,
samc period of last wear
The production Of anthracite. esti-
mated al 1851 ,0nD net tons. cxcee e
production during the week ended
January 4th by $4,000 net tons or an
lproNimaicly 20 per cent, but fell
IsiNiy-cight thousand net tons or an
IrnNimntoly per cent below prudur,
lion of the corresponding week of
IlPlh. The daily average during the
current week is estimated AT 27b.OOp
net tons compared with $4,000 net
tons for the coal year 10 date, and
$4,000 net tons for the same period
Of last year.
While the production Of anthracite
for the coal wear To date is 100000
net tons or ? per cent below produc-
hon during n similar period of 1915
! u is nevertheless equivalent 10 de.
lpand. Figures now available for the
nine months ended December 81, 1915,
show that the allotment originally
outlined by the anthracite committee
of the fuel administration ON domes
Tie sizes Of anthracite lincluding
peal, TO have been practically fui.
filled
The Cooking Industry
Byproduct coke production durin.
the week ended January nth Is est
nnted at 14l 600 net tons and falls
hut slightly below the production OF
the week preceding. II is, however.
approximately 90 per cent in excess
Of production during the correspond
ing week Of 1918 The plants Of the
country were operated during thu
week at S3.l per cent Of their full time
as compared with s2.2 per cent during
fhn .aYaak ~ a.