The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-07-22
IS
FACE To FACE
WITH 4 FAMINE
Coal Receipts Fall off-lndustres
win Shut Down Rather Than Pay
Big Prices Asked in Eastern
Markets

Special Dispatch to The Intelligencer
Cleveland. July 2l.-The coal fam
inc has reached the point where
mines are loading little more than
! fuel for railways and some public
utilities. industrial buyers in this sec
ton discovered today. Apparently
they had definitely left the market
when brokers asserted during the
afternoon that coal was going at s.
and SS.25 ton IN Pittsburgh, but that
! none was being taken at that extreme
figure In Cleveland,
The information from Pittsburgh
was 10 the effect that eastern Penn
sylvania and New York purchasers
: had returned to the bituminous mar
/ ket there and we're grabbing every
thing In sight. II Is the general opin'
! ion in coal circles that rather than
pay these prices most Cleveland users
prefer to shut down.
The Nickel Plate railway was
among those inQuiring for coal In
Pittsburgh today. One Of the light
plants was reported to have bought
100 cars there.
Several consumers here have given
up trying to get coal through their
Cincinnati gateway from non-union
fields. The clerks strike on the
Chesapeake & Ohio was apparently
putting the finishing touches on the
outlook that way when the road an
nouuced at Lexington. Ky. that 1t was
atnh 81 haf
! The brighter side OF todays confu
sion was: Railway officials announce
the r. & O. Thursday loaded cars al
the mines, mostly In the Connellsville
field.
! Railway men also say congestion
was breaking up at Columbus and Gin
cinnati. and coal movement was i'm
proving in every direction.
Cleveland reports the first half OIL
the week averaged SIS cars a day
against II daily the first half OF last
week Usually the city requires Az
cars OF the day.
The darker side OF the picture:
Shortage OF steel resulting from lack
OF fuel temporarily closed twenty-siS
tin mills Of the American Sheet and
Tin Plate company at Farrell, Pa.
near Youngstown.
Half the Cincinnati foundries were
shutting down.
Eighty non-union miners struck east
OF Wellsburg. Q.
A broker said Ohio stripping mines
apparently were not meeting rs per
cent OF even the railway demand.
/ Cleveland water works and light
plant receipts fell of Five cars came
in. against sixteen Thursday. Officials
were discouraged.
Up to date, In the old central com
petitive -four state) fields the number
! Of mines definitely announced az
about to open as the result Of Presi
dent Hardins's invitation TO the oper
ators Is exactly four. These four viii
be In western Pennsylvania, proper
ties of the Pittsburgh and Henderson
coal companies.
Word reached Cleveland operators
that the Indiana association would not
attempt to start for the time being.
Operators groups favoring waiting
until some-sort of union agreement is
obtained now include eastern Ohio
Cambridge, southern Illinois, Indiana
and part OF western Pennsylvania
Southern Ohio tHocking) is apparen.
ly undecided.
The following announcement was
made in Columbus today by w. D. Nc
Kinney, secretary Of the Southern
Ohio Coal associations: There Is alb
solutely nothing constructive to An
nounce at this time Southern Ohio
operators want to resume work Will
their own men and under such condi
ticns as will make operations pos
sfble."