The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-11-19

poses-bunker, inside eapes. and 9th
err tonnage--decreased q, 900 tons.
exports from the five North Atlantic
ports increased $4,000 tons.
"A further decrease is noted in the
all-rail movement to New England.
During the first week of November
4151 cars were forwarded through the
five rail gateways at Harlem River.
Maybrook, Albany, Rotterdam. and
Interchangeable. Compared with the
preceding week this was a decrease of
ninety-seven cars, or a trifle less than
2 per cent. No comparison NAV well
be made with the figures for the cor
responding week Of 1919 because they
were extremely low as a result Of the
strike.
With total production during the
week ended Octooer Both amounting
TO l2,4lS,000 tons, a new maximum
for the year, Il was to be expected
that the output in the Northern and
Middle Appalachian region would
prove to be large. Estimates by the
geological survey based on find re-
ports Of cars loaded submitted TO the
American Railroad association, place
the output in that region ut 100000 |
tons, nm increase Of 125,0OO tons over
the preceding week.
Interesting conclusions rs TO the i
extent 10 which fuel oil has been sub.
stituted for coal by industrial and
electric utility plants are 10 be drawn
from a study Of stocks and consump-
ton recently completed by the geolo-
gical survey in cooperation with the
United States Bituminous Coal COM
mission. The purpose Of the survey
was 10 ascertain the extent of con-
sumers' stocks as an item in the re-
quircmonts for necessary production
during the summer Of 1920. A de-
tailed stock report may be had upon
30 the director OF the geo
logical survey. The questions con-
ceining stocks were ~ phrascd as TO
disclose the substitution of fuel oil /
for coal " the plant had made the
change between April /, 1919, aud
March /, 1920. The inquiry was adj
dressed to representative consumers
selected ut random and scattered /
throughout the country. The replies
therefore would indicate whore the
change from coal TO fuel oil bad, been
most common, and would givees3 w. J
proXimate idea of the extent OF tie
change.
Reports were received from three
hundred and seventeen electric utility
plants which consumed about half of
the total required by electric plants as
n group OF this number IL WIS found
that nine had changed over from coal
TO fuel oil. The quantity of coal dis
placed was $1,000 tons per quarter,
or about / per cent of The quarterly Il
consumption of the plants canyassed.
OF the 23iT industrial plants can.
vassed, il was found that sixty-nine
had substituted fuel oil for coal. The
of the total coal consump-
ton of this group Of plants displaced
by fuel oil was again small, amount
ing To IL per cent
These facts indicate that over the
country NJ % whole the competition
of fuel OH during the period of lev
prices of crude following the armis-
ticc, was not OF serious proportions.
On the average for an consumers the
amount of coal displaced appears TO
have been considerably less than II
per cent of the normal demand.
In certain localities, however, the
competition of fuel oil was much more
effective. Regions close % the great
producing oil fields, aud particularly /
the coastal belt along the Atlantic
and the Gulf of Mexico, felt the COM
petition of fuel oil kcenly, In the
interior of the country, away from
the coast and tlV producing OH fields,
the quantity of coal displaced by oil
was negligible.