The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-10-01
LARGEST COAL OUTPUT
since JANUARY IS
REPORTED
AUGUST AVERAGE REDUCED
BY ANTHRACITE STRIKE.
Working Becomes Brratic, Gains in
One Section Being offset By Losses
in others-output Below Demand
No Figures From Utah - Car
Situation Seems to Be Better.
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Correspondence The Sun.
WASHINGTON, d. c.. Sent o.
Inc production Of soft coal during
the week ended September 18th was
the largest with one exception i'm any
week since January. Because of the
strike in the anthracite region. how.
ever, the total production of hard and
soft coal combined was much below
the average of August.
The output of bituminous Onclud-
ing Ignite and coal coked) is cstimat-
ed at ll,6li,0OO net tons. This was
an increase. when compared with the
latest iulltime week August Both
September ith) of $4,000 tons or Al
per cent, and was within 10000 tom.
of that for the week of August lItb.
the largest obtained since last .Innu.
airy. One factor in the increased out
put was the release Of ears from the
anthracite region of Pennsylvania for
use IN The adjacent biluminous fields.
The rate of production per working
day was l,036.000 tons. ~ against
2,OOs,OuD tons during the week Of
Labor Dny.
Telogrnphic reports on loadings hy
the principal carrier, indicate .hat
production declined slightly on Mon
day and Tuesday of the present week
(Sepicmbcr 2Oth-2lst.) Production
during the first 222 working DAYS Of
the last four years has been ~ fol
lows Con net tons): 1917, 3OI.0OO.-
900; 1918, i2I,05S,00O: 1919. 800. 6G3. =
900; 1920, sO,s32,OOO. The year 1920
IL thus about fourteen million tons
behind 1917, and forty-thrcc and a
quarter million tons behind 1918. but
Is over iilty-one million tons ahead of
1919. IN this connection IL should be
remembered that production during
1918 exceeded consumption aud pro-
vided for q net addition 10 consum-
ers : stocks by the end of the year of
approximately 30,OOO,OO0 tons. In
1919 the condition was reversed; con.
sumption exceeded production and
thers. was n net draft ON stocks of
perhaps 10000, 900 tons for the year
Although the figures Of production
for The week ended September 18th
show no general resumption OF ac
tivity in the anthracite region, there
has been a marked improvement dur,
ing the present week (Scptembcr
10Th 10 25th The total shipments
during the week Of September 18th
were l3,G04 cars. Expressed in net
tons, the total quantity shipped, used
for mine fuel, and sold locally would
be about $4,000 tons, an increase oi
$4,000 tons over the preceding week
but slill only about 80 per cent of m,
pre-slrike average. Beginning Will
Monday, September 10th, q genera
return 10 work set in and by Wedncs
day, September 22d, shipments hat
reached 90 per cent of the lNerag,
before the strike
The mine reports for the week ended
September 18th are colored by IA,
presence of the Labor Day holiday
The demand for ears was reduced
aud in consequence the available sup
ply appeared more adequate, Their,
was a recurrence Of the recent slrik,
in Western Kentucky. The week ais,
furnished the first test of strength of
the strike order in Alabama,
Laying off work on more days than
the holiday itself was reflected in d
general increase in the loss due 10 la
Dor shortage The total loss uttrihut
ed 10 labor, including both labor
shortage and strikes, increased from
90 10 10 per cent, In the Central
Competitive Field losses due to labor
have now declined 10 small proper
tons. In the neighboring region of
Western Kentucky, however, strike'
again developed, causing a total LOST
amounting 10 37,2 per cent of lh,
capacity of the district OF other
Western fields, the only one 20 report
significant strike losses was Arkansas
In the Eastern bituminous field,
interest centered in Alabama, where
after many weeks of controversy
during which the losses due to labor
ranged from l3 to 20 per cent, d
strike was called effective mmighl
September 9th. The operating reports
for the week of September nth thus