San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-09
CANADA OPEN
MARKETFOR
WELSH COAL
Price Of American Anthra-
cite Said to Be Pro-
hibitive.
GLOVES TO BE HIGHER
Cuban Sugar Mills Active;
Expect Prices to
Advance.
GLOVES TO BE HIGHER
RN i C. R0NIE.


Copyright, 1928, by The San Antonio Light.
New York, Feb. 9.-Canada has de-
clared an open market for Welsh coal.
Even if the price is higher than that
Of the American product, the welsh
coal will be given precedence. Inns
step, according to authorities today who
1ere in close touch with the Canadian
situation was taken with the view OF
tempering the relations concerning coal,
between the United States and Canada
aud the suspicion in the minds OF
Americans that Canada has been too
anthracite.
Two large Welsh mine owners now
are in Canada investigating the pos
sibility of establishing permanent
market for Welsh coal in the eastern
part of the dominion. Their tentative
plan is to ship the coal from South
Wales ports to depots in st. Johns and
Montreal, from whence it will be dis
tributed to other points. The question
at issue. according to Canadian deal
ers, is efficiency Of handling. i'll order
TO permit prices which are somewhat
near American coal?
The brittle character of the Welsh
coal, which makes it likely to arrive
in the bins of the consumer in the
form of dust, has prejudiced the Cana
dian consumer in favor of the PennSyl-
vania product, but it is felt in Montreal,
Quebec and Toronto that the introduce
ton of Welsh coal will work to the
advantage of the consumer by starting
some healthy competition.
Canadian Prices RuinOuS.
Coal prices today in Canada are
ruinous, according TO manufacturers
and dealers across the border, and high
prices are predicted. Selling of Amer
lean anthracite, they said, is in the
hands of dealers who have certain long
established privileges and under such
arrangements that the Canadian public
constantly faces possibilities of a fuel
famine.
The introduction of Welsh coal, how
ever, does not find favor with the
Canadian domestic consumers. For
years Canadian householders have de-
manded and used American anthracite.
The coal from the Nova Scotia mines
has not found general market and the
demand from American sources has in
creased steadily.
American anthracite operators declar-
ed today that even should the Welsh
I~~shl be handled at a price TO compare
with Pennsylvania anthracite that it
would be many years before the Cana
dams would accustom themselves to
the use of other than American coal.
Fuel Commissioner McGrath said today,
in regard TO charges that Canada had
been given precedence in coal shipments
this winter. that the dominion had
been treated exactly as if she were
state of the union. a
Glove Prices Rising.
1t was regarded as q certainty in the
| leather trade today that the American
/ public will have TO dig its hands deeper
into its pockets for hand coverings
this year than last. Glove prices are
on the upgrade. American manufac-
turers have signed a wage agreement
with their employees which they said
today would necessitate an increase of
81 toJS150 per dozen in the wholesale
price. They added that increased cost
of goat and kid skins and glazed kid
would require an additional increase of
\ from S1.50 to So dozen.
No important price changes are ex-
pected in shoes however. The relation
between leather and finished products
in the shoe trade have been fairly well
Stabilized. Shoe production promises
TO establish new record this year and
makers of medium priced lines are
working three eight-hour shifts with
production booked well ahead.
Cuban Sugar Mills Active.
Both raw and refined sugars are
showing strength in this market. due
not only TO domestic but to foreign
buying. Extreme advances from pres
ent price levels are noted by those in
rlose touch with the market as during
he next month. Cuban production viii
be at its height. There are now 161
sugar centrals in operations on the
Stand and these mills represent % per
.ent of estimated Cuban production. At
his tine last year only 10 mills were
grinding.