The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-09-10

Correspondence The sun.
WASHINGTON, ID. G., Sept 6.-l
Partial recovery from the depression
bf The preceding week carried produe-
ton well above the eleven millions
mark during the week ended August
2Sth. The total output of soft coal,
including Ignite and coal cooked at
the mines, is estimated at l1.374,0O0
net tons. This was an increase Of
three hundred and twenty-six thou.
sand tons or per cent over the week
before. but was still four hundred
and thirty-nine thousand tons short
of the output attained in the second
week of August. The recovery ISL
more significant whom u Is remeni-
bcrcd that during the first half of
the week most of the mines of lndi-
ana were still closed by the second
outbreak OF the daymens strike, ByI
Thursday, Angus, 10Th, AL but TWEEN
ty-ninc Indiana mines We're back at
work and by Saturday all but four
teen were back. Production during
Ihe first two hundred and five work
ing DAYS of the present year totals
3lT. 100000 tons. The year 1920 ISL
thus fifteen and a half million tons
behind 1917 and forty and a half mil
lion tons behind 1918. but IL forty.
nine and two-thirds million tons
ahead of 1910 In this connection it
should be- remembered that produc-
lion during 1918 exceeded cousump-
ton aud provided for net addition
TO consumer stoke by the end of the
year of approximately thirty million
tons In 1910 the condition was re-
vcrsed. Consumption exceeded pro-
duction and there was a net draft on
stocks ~ perhaps forty million tons
for the year Utah production for the
weeks ending August 1iih and Dist
have not as yet been made.
Coal Demand Intense.
The chief new development shown
by the mine reports for the week of
August Dist was the RECURRING Of the
daymcn' = strike In Indiana There
was slight reaction IN The recent
tendency toward improved lranrppr-
tation which was largely due TO eX-
hauslion of the supply of empty coal
ears which Rad ugrnmulnIcd dgrrny
the first outbreak Of the strike.
transportation remained the domi-
nnnt factor limiting production. The
strike of the daymcn Ia the Mississ-
ippi Valley has shown two phases.
The first aud larger started IN South
crn Illinois during the third week of
July and spread rapidly To Indiana,
Iowa aud Kansas. Work was re-
summed Ia Illinois and Indiana during
the first week of August pending a
settlement hy negotiation, The Iowa
mines went back Ia work the ensuing
week August sth to lithl and were
followed during the week under re-
view august 10th 10 2lsD by the
Kansas MINES. Hardly had the first
phase of the disturbance subsidized
when q second wnlkout occurred IN
Indiana, On Wednesday, August
18th, twenty-four mines were idle
Thursday, ninety-seyen; on Saturday,
one hundred and siNly-siN, or four
iitths ut all the mines ia the state
Labor LOSSES Ia Indiana increased
consequently, from 81 Ia 49, pei
cent of fulltime capacity, and were
reflected In the average for the coun-
try as well, which rose from ~ Ia
III per cent 4 related dispute de-
yeloped in Tie adjacent field Of
Western Kentucky, whore the com,
bined loss attributed 10 labor short
age and strikes increased from o. Ia
24.G per cent of tulltime. No chang,
of note occurred IN the labor dis,
turbances in the Appalachian region
Three-tourths of the capacity in the
kenoya-r hucker Williamson iiel,
of Southern West Virginia continued
down. in Alabama labor losses in
creased slightly, amounting for Nh,
week 10 pos per cent, So far as re-
yea,ed hy the mine reports the de
mand for coal was intense. Lossct
of working Time due To lack oi ORDER
averaged tor the country rs q Who'll,
less than tive-hundredths of / pei
cent. Only two mines, these located in
Montana, reported lack of demand.
Accumulation Of Cars.
During the first phase of the day
men Is strike the cessation of mininl
activity had made possible an accu
mutation of empty coal ears in dis
tricts affected by the strike Whel
work was resumed this accumulation
afforded a few days of except onal!l
favorable running time. A reaction
against this sudden improvement WA
10 be expected, and the mine report
show that it occurred IL was mos
pronounced in Illinois, where the run
ming time dropped from $50 10 CO.,
per cent, the change being who'll!
due 20 a return of the ear shortag,
which increased from ia to 27.5 PEE
cent, Other districts in which tn,
ear supply grew less adequate wer'
Northwestern Pennsylvania, Secs.
and C of Central Pennsylvania, Cum