The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-07-09
PROPERTIES OF CARBON DIS.
TRIoT WORKING FINE.
Transportation Disability Down to
About Three and one-Half Per
Cent and Labor Shortage Around
the Same-Review Of Conditions
Over Country BY Geological Survey
correspondenee The sun.

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production of soft coal during the
week ended ON June 26th increased
three hundred and seventv-seveu
thousand tons or 81 per cent. The
output including Ignite and coal
made into coke at the mines. is esti-
mated now at l0.45I.000 net tons as
against 10,077,OOO tons during the
preceding week and 1O,35j.OO0 tons in
the week of June 10Th. The increase
was effected in spite of recurrence
Of the switchmen's strike on roads
serving Central PENNSYLVANIA and the
Somerset, Cumberland Piedmont and
Fairmont fields Incomplete returns
indicate that production on Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday of last week
was about the same as on the cores
ponding days of the previous week.
Production during the first hundred
and fifty-twO working DAYS of this
year has been 25l, $4,000 tons. The
year Is thus seventeen and quartcrI
million tons behind 1917 and nearly
twonty-six millions behind 1918. and
but forty-five and n third millions
of tons ahead OF 1919. For the week
ending June 10Th the mines of Utah
properties produced O0.S per cent of
full capacity. Total losses from all
causes, % per cent: transportation
disability, 81: labor shortage. 3.5.
and mine disability, % per cent. For
the week ending June 26th Utah and
Washington, it IL estimated, produced
four thousand tons of coke. Also.
about the same amount in the prcyi-
Gus six days The shortage Of ears
remains ncute over most Of the terri
tory east Of the Mississippi. out oil
thiriy-one districts reporting but three
Michigan, Alabama aud the com
bination rail and RIVER mines Of the
Plttsburg district - experienced al
transportation loss smaller than pol
per cent of fulltime. In eleven fields |
the loss exceeded 90 per cent and in |
Decentralization Kentucky, Hnr. !
Ian county aud Sec. A Of Central
Ponnsylvani-it was greater than col
per cent. West of the Mississippi a |
general improvement IN ear supply |
was reported. The greatest loss on
account Of transportation disability
was 25.2 ger cent nj mines in Kansas.
Temporary Setback.
Mine reports for the week of June
10Th depict q temporary setback in
the gradual increase in production
which has been in process since May
10Th. Car shortage remained the
dominant factor limiting production.
Losses attributed to labor by the
operators reports amounted 10 but
3.5 per cent of fulltime over the
country as a whole. OF this 0.6 per
cent represented strikes and 30 per
cent losses Of mine operating time
asoribed 10 labor shortage Scatter
ing strikes Of small proportions were
reported from Central and Southern
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, See. c of
Central Pennsylvania, the CumbCr-
land-Piedmont field, Alabama, Kan.
sas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. The
loss of time in the kenoya- Thacker
region, associated with the effort TO
the field, was 22,3 per cent
practically the same as during the
week In the intense de-
mand caused by the congestion of
transportation, LOSSES due 10 no mar
yet continued 10 diminish in import
ince. The average loss ON account
IF lack or orders was % per cent as
against O.3 during the preceding
week and 0.5 in the week of June
ith. West of the Mississippi no mar
ret losses were confined 10 Iowa,
Missouri, Texas, Colorado and the
Northwestern States. The reports
'or the week of June 10Th show the
which prevailed imediately
,efore the issuance of Interstate ,
commerce Commission Service Order
So, Z, directing complete priority for
oal mines IN the use of Opentop ears.
'he ear supply improved in some dis
ricts and grew even less adequate in
'thers. A change for the better was
oported in the Franklin-Saline and
williamson districts of Southern
illinois, in Indiana, in Western Penn
ylyania, and Fairmont region, South !
m West Virginia and Kentucky. In I
Northern and Central Illinois, in ,
lhio, Secs, b and c of Central Penn I
ylvania, the Somerset, Cumberland \
PIEDMONT, Southern Appalachian and {
HARLAN fields, and in Virginia and !
Ilabama, the car shortage grew more
cute again.
Coke and Anthracite,
Production of beehive coke, like }
hat of both anthracite and bitumin-
us coal, increased during the week !
nded June Goth. Fhe total output j
or the country is estimated ON the !
asis of shipments by rail- at 100000 !
ct tons. Production in the Connells- /
lille region was 1860 tons, an in /
rease of $3.50 tons over the preced- 1
lg week. The cumulative produc- e