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Show v WASHINGTON NOTES COAL Reductions of 20 and 25 cents per ton in the minium mine prices for three sizea of coal produced by mines in Subdistrict No. 1 of Utah and shipped into the Seattle, Wash., market area have been ordered by the Bituminous C w.1 Division of the Department of Interior. The Division, after a public hearing, found that the reductions were necessary to permit the Utah mines to compete with nitres nitr-es in Wyoming, Idaho, Washington Washing-ton and Canada. They were requested re-quested by the Bituminous Coal Producer's Board for District 2':, Salt Lake City, Utah. The 20-cent reduction applies to ''three-inch lump" and ''Three-inch ''Three-inch by eight-inch" coals. The 25-cent reduction applies to "eight-inch lump coals. OIL The Petroleum Coordinator, to day said that the bill increasing the load-line for tankers in cos tal service, on which Congressional Congres-sional action has been completed, will aid materially in abating the impending East Coast shortage of petroleum products. The Petroleum Coordinator was notified to day that the first shipment ship-ment in many years of crude oil to the East Coast by railroad tank cars would commr-nce Monday r Continued on page 'i (Continued from pagel i WASHINGTON NOTES from Lima. Ohio, when 25 cars will leave that city bound for the Eayonne refinery of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. WATER The West is celebrating one of its finest water years in a generation, gener-ation, Commissioner of the Bureau Bur-eau of Reclamation today reported report-ed to the Secretary of Interior. 'Information from the field of the Northwest and some isolated isola-ted sections water condition.; are exceptionally good," he said, "and Federal Reclamation reservoirs are impounding the largest storage stor-age in their history." Grand Coulee Dam in Washington Washing-ton State, and Boulder Dam in the pacific Southwest, giant projects j of the Bureau of Reclamation, I will furnish the surging power for j the defense production of more ;than one-third of the 600,000 '') ! pound of additional aluminum production planned by the Office ! of Production Managment beginning begin-ning in 1942. j Still at flood stage, the Colorado River continues to inch Lake Mead toward the crests of the upraised spillway gates at Boulder Bould-er Dam, already having stored a record total of 30,140,000 acre-feet acre-feet of water to spin the turbines, feed city water systems, and irrigate ir-rigate farms. |