The Sun. [volume] (Price, Utah) 1915-1932, 1920-08-27

bama and in the -Thacker
field continued.
As before, the demand for coal was
intense. Reports of loss of time due
TO lack Of orders have become so in
frequent as TO constitute less than
five hundredths of one per cent in
the average for the country as a
whole.
The week was marked by n wide
spread improvement in ear supply in
districts remote from the strike area.
The improvement must have been in
part attributable to the accumulation
of empty coal cars during the period
of the strike itself, but the reports
indicate also that the carriers had
made progress in clearing up the con-
gestion of transportation which has
been the primary cause of the reduc-
ed production of coal in recent
months A reduction in loss attfihut.
ed TO transportation disability was
reported from Northn Ohio, North
western Pennsylvania, Section A of
Central Pennsylvania. the Somerset
field, throughout Southern West Vir-
ginia, both high and low volatile. and
in al of Eastern Kentucky except
the Harlan field In that field and
in Southwestern Virginia the short
Iage Of cars became more pronounced,
as was also the case in Southern
Ohio. the Pittsburg district, the Pan
handle Of West Virginia, and Section
B of the Central Pennsylvania. The
slight change for the worse in West
em Kentucky and Indiana reflected
the increased demand for ears rs
work was resumed IN the area affect
ed by the strike. West of the Miss
issippi the ear supply improved in
! Oklahoma aud Missouri hut grew
worse in Arkansas and Colorado. In
the last named state losses attributed
90 transportation increased from 16.0
10 222 per cent. The centcrs of most
acute transportation disability were
the Hazard and Harlan fields Of
southern Kentucky, In both OF which
the transportation loss exceeded 50
i per cent
Coke Production Increases.
The production of coke. like that
.ot anthracite and bituminous coal, in
creased during the week ended Aug
ust 18th. Preliminary estimates
based upon incomplete figures of
railroad shipments place the output
lac $4,000 net tons, an increase of
$4,000 tons, or per cent over the re-
b visod figure for the preceding week.
The increase was largely made posi-
BILE by improved ear supply in the
Conncllsville region, where produe-
ton rosc from i04.i40 to 2i0.4iO
tons. The cumulative production
since January /, 1920, now stands at
! l3,2lO,OO0 meet tons, an increase of
/ ,2ii,0O0 tons over the year 1919.
e DumpingH at Lake Erie ports dur.
% ing the third week of operation of the
% amended Lake order we're Just short
e of the million mark The total for
p the week ended August 18th was
y p04,425 net tons of which 052,29s
- tons was cargo coal and A2i2z vesse
= fuel This was not only lie largest
= of the present season, surprising by
G l6l,12i tons the performance Of the
{ preceding week, but IL was much
70 larger than the tonnage of the CORES
8 ponding week Of 1919. The move,
, ment, however, has not yet attained
the maximum which the ports ear
handle; in the week Of August a.
1918, for example, total Of 1,ll0,,
900 tons was dumped,
The total Lake movement since IN,
Opening Of navigation now stands at
s,O4l,O0 tons, as against about H.,
BOG, 600 in 1918 aud 10000 in 1919
, The year 1920 Is thus over five and d
half million tons behind 1918 and sia
and a third million behind 1919.
Because of the lapse of time be-
tween loading at the mine and dump
: ing at pier, better measure of th,
effectiveness of Service Order No. IL
: : is the record of coal shipped from III,
mine. Loadings for Lake destinations
during the third week of the order
exceeded the quota by sixty-one ears
On August 18th the cumulative move
u menl was Sill ears or ~ per cent
p behind schedule, or 10 put il another
way, was 81 days behind. Loading
y ON Monday, August 10th, exceeded
. the daily quota by 100 ears,
y Tidewater Movement.
i Tidewater shipments declined slight
!. lly during the week ended Angus
3 l4th. The total number of ear
n dumped over tidewater piers, accord
4 ing to reports turnishe,, the geulogi
!. cal survey by courtesy of the Ameri
% can Railroad associatlua, was 25,740
+ as against l'l64 dunag the preced
n ing week. That the movement wal
4 nevertheless very heavy - seen frul
d the fact that IL exceeded by !I9l
u ears the weekly average foI July. rh'
Il only port for which information is a
4 present available as 10 the destination
y of coal dumped over tidewster pier
e during the week of August l4th i
n Hampton Roads. Reports TO th