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Show ' HOST ACUTE SITUATION STILL EXISTING IN unui RAILROAD OAR SHORTAQE IS STILL Bid PROBLEM. Report of Lack of Orders Recolved Prom Every State With the Exception Excep-tion of the Beehiv'o Bridge Up Scofiold Way Replaced Around About tho Local Camps. Correspondence The 8un. WASHINGTON, D. C, Mny 31. i Sliplit recovery during tho week end ed May 22d corricd production upward up-ward to nlmost oxnctly tho level of two weeks ago. The total output of soft conl, including Ilgnito nnd conl coked, is estimated nt 0,174,000 tons, nn jncreaso over tho preceding week I of 418,000 tons or 4.8 per cent. In spito of the improvement the rule of production fa stilt 13 per cent liclow I that of tho first quarter of 1020 nnd 27 cr cent liolow Hint of October, i 1010. Continued for n year, tho pros- ( ent rate of 1.020,000 tons per work- , ing day would give n total produe'lon f 470,000,000 tons. Progress in re lieving tho traffic congestion caused liy the switchmen's strike is thus slow. The week was the seventh of tho strike period, hut tho total pnxlue-I pnxlue-I i.ton was 1,811,000 tons less than that ' of tho latest normal wcckf March 11th , to 'JO Ih. Production during tho first I hundred and twenty-two days of tho R present year has been 202,277,000 tons. The j car 1020, although thirty-i thirty-i fivo million ions ahead of 1010, is nearly twelve million tons behind 1017 and sixteen millions of tons , behind 1018. For tho week ending Muy 15th Utah iifines produced 53.2 j per cent of rapacity. Total losses from all causes worn 408; tnwsor-tut tnwsor-tut ion disability. 40.3; labor shortage, 7.4; mine disability, 0.C xr rent. Tim production of nntlironito alto recovered recov-ered slightly during the week ended May 22d. Shlpmnti outlined liv tho )ir;nclpnl curriers, in pnrt osti-liuitcd, osti-liuitcd, wero reported as 31,812 ears. The total production, including fu'id nnd local sales, is cstimntcd nt 1,788,- 000 net tons, u figure about halfway ( between those of tho two weeks lire- , ceding. Total production sinro Jan uary 1, 1020, now amounts to 33,0 II,-000 II,-000 net tons, an increase over tho pro-ceding pro-ceding year of approximately 2,700,-! 2,700,-! 000. . Disturbance Slight j ltcMrts for tho week of May 15th show tho car shortage which has no- A . companlcd tho swtvhmcn's striko In Z " n stago of heightened intensity. Itiso of wording tluio duo to trnntporln- J tiim ilisnlillity grew mora severe. Tho L 70iie of dull market west of tho Mis- I stssippi moved north, but ovttr the 1 country as n whole tho no market loss j wns lnsinlfionnt. Lalmr disttirlisnc f were at a miiiimuiu. Incomplete ru- I jmrts from Mirhigmi indicate that J most of the men out on strike during ' tho preceding week returned to work on May 10th. Ioel sinks occurred j in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, lltlslmrtf, ' Central PonusylvMiiiH, ( uiiilntrlsnd- L Piedmont, l'alriiwiit, AUIwihh, Ihuh .' timl Arkansas. I of mine oper- J atlng timo duo to labor shortsge wore 1 widespread, but on tho nvenwe tunounted to only 2.0 per rent of full- time. I 11 )ir at this kVmmoii, tho domi nant factor linhting pnidiietlen was no market. At present no markut ' lasso in tho fields east of the Mis- u nlsstppi are con fined to four milieu in Illinois. West of tho Mississippi, I however, tho xono of dull market pn- groM northwanl poreeptjUilv during the week of May lfilh. In Missouri it nmounted to 0.3 Hr cent of fulltime, in the Northwestern btatos to 10 2 per cent and in Iowa to 21.0 per cent, licports of lock of orders wero ro-ocived ro-ocived from every Western Stalo except ex-cept Utah. In the average for tho country, however, no market losses were of small importance, amounting to only 0.8 per cent of capacity. Tho dominant factor limiting production pro-duction remained transportation. Tho week witnessed nn Aggravation of tho unprecedented shortage of cars which has prevailed sinco April 10th. Losses of working time attributed to car shortago increased from 44.0 during tho preceding wjjek to 40.0 per cent or 22.4 hours out of the forty-eight. It must bo remembered, however, that what to the operator appears as "car shortago" may includo other element besides inadequacy of rolling stock. Tho present transportation equipment equip-ment is the samo which in October, 1010, when coal was given priority oer other f aright, moved over two million tons of bituminous coal n day with n car shortago toss of loss than 12 per cent. Local Oar Shortage. It is the samo equipment which in the first half of January kept tho mines running to two-thirds of full-time full-time instead of less than half as nt present. Tho difference Is due to tho congestion of traffic which now prevails pre-vails and which has grown out of the railroad workers strike. Tho situation situa-tion resembles that of December, 1017, nnd January, 1018, except that the present congestion is won;. The most acute transortation loss in the winter of 1017-18 wns 35.fi per cent wlucli felt in the week of January 12, 1018. The worst car shortago of the past winter occurred during tho week of February 21st, when the loss amounted to 38.3 per rent. Tho present car shortago 'is far more acute. Ourinc the five weeks from April 11th to May 15th it has caused an average loss of 47.3 per cent of fiilltitne. Out of twenty-six districts reporting cast of the Mississippi during the week of Mny 15th only five experienced it trnnsjwrtntion loss sinnllcr than 20 per rent; in fourteen tho loss exceeded exceed-ed CO Kir cent, anil In fUeI'llts-burg fUeI'llts-burg (rail mines), Sec. A of Central Pennsylvania, Logan, IInwird nnd Harlan it was greater than 00 per cent. Tho most aruto car shortage west of tho Mississippi was rejiorted from Utah and amounted to 40.3 per cent. Slight measure of nlicf in the supply sup-ply of cars nt the ovens permitted an 8 per rent increase in the production of beehive coke during the week ended end-ed May 22d. Th total output is estimate! esti-mate! on tho tmds ' shipments over tho principal coke canning roads at 378,000 net tons or twenty-nine thousand tons greater than that of tho preceding week. The inarms wns confined to I'cnnsjlvnnln and to West Virginia. In the Middle and Southern Appalachians production declined slightly. In the West the filiation remained unchanged. Tho greatest improvement was-re-xirfSrl from the C nl' il!o nsjfion, where production as estimated ne rroin 151,1110 to 178,250 tons. Demand for roke continues Imetiso nnd from all districts high prices are quoted. The cumulative production sine Jan-tmr.v Jan-tmr.v 1, 1020, now amounts to 8,471,-000 8,471,-000 tons, anfncrmMt of 310,000 whan mmiMred with the roirosoiidiiig iwriod of 101O LABOR OONPRONTED WITH AN INTERNECINE WRANOLE WASIlINnTON.'l). C, May 21). A sensational fight is whh-cImI to develop de-velop on the floor of the Auunran Federation of Mmr convention in Mmitnwl as the result of n ruling by .John U Uwis, president of the United Unit-ed Mine Workers or America, that John If. Wnlkcr, president or tho II-lmois II-lmois Ktnto Federation of Ubor, is ineligiblo to roprownt the miners ns a delcguto to the convention. Walker, u lender of the nntl-adiuin-Istrotioii faction in the miners' union, was elected ns a delegate for a two-ear two-ear term, beginning with Inst ear s convention. Lewis having ruled that tho miners constitution debars him from representing tho union In any official capnclty because ho is no longer active in his trade. Walker adherents charge n plot to prevent him from running against Lewis for tho presidency of the organization nt its next election. Walker has nppcalcd from Lewis' ruling to the miners national executive execu-tive board, nnd if turned down by that body will take bis fight to tho American Federation of Labor convention. con-vention. ALCOHOL FROM OOAL THE LATE8T SCIENTIFIC WORD Thirsty souls who have been much exercised nbout the nntional drouth nnd who hnvo found it extremely difficult dif-ficult to obtain n "snort." mny take heart from an item cabled to tlrs country from Knglnnd, which tells of n new chemical process by which alcohol al-cohol can bo extracted from coko oven gas, says .Salt Lake's Tribune. This product, in commorcint quantities nnd nt n reasonable cost, is rcjiotted to have been fully demonstrated nt n late meeting of engineers nt Middles-borough. Middles-borough. Tho originator of the process pro-cess showed that ho had succeeded in extracting ctli.vl alcohol and lis derivatives. deri-vatives. Tho practical working of tho process at ono plant, whoro fifty-eight fifty-eight hundred tons of coat are carbonized carbon-ized dvcry week, revealed nn nvcragc of 1.0 gallons of nlcohnl to (ho ton of conl carbonized. The totnl weight of coal reduced to coke in (ho Flitted Knigdom in 1013 having been 14,035,000 tons, the application ap-plication of tho process to tho entire qunntity of roal would jicld 23,110,-000 23,110,-000 gallons, tho value of which would bo $11,305,000. The recovery of alcohol al-cohol from tho gas works of the country coun-try would jicld n further 27.000,000 gallons, of nlcohul nnd benzol, taken together, would amount to 111,000,-000 111,000,-000 gnllons, to meet the requirements of tho country, which amount to 100,. 000,000 n year. Since nbout every town nnd ritv in tho United States has Us gas wo'rks, : it should be a simple matter to attach n distillery detriment. The opHr-tunity opHr-tunity npianntly is rranght with unlimited un-limited possibilities. Scoficld Branch Open. Tho Denver and Itio (Irnnde branch line to Seofield and the Ukt rmiin ot Carbon county wns reopened Inst Friday noon with two new iemiaueni trestles to lake the place of ones wnilicd out several dn,vs ago by high wnters in Fish Creek. Tho mines of the three enmw up that wn Hit again working, but the output is limited ns against what it should do Itnilroad rnrs for ronl are slow to romo in, but it is said this avlinitiou is much belter than it has been n.r mime time. The Denver nnd Urn tl rondo was restricted to one line of tmek oust of Hpringville must of In wek licrtiiiHi or wiislird out embank-ihsiiU embank-ihsiiU in SjwinMi Fork Canyon. Coal Embargo. WASHINGTON', I). C, May 20 -I'mbargo on export of all bituminous eital was urged in the senate toda.v b.v Senator Wnlsli, dwoocrst of Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, who declared that the country coun-try fseed "industrial srlyis for Isek of roal linloss ixtiiie such step is taken." The mlemUti coiiiincri e wHiiinlssion whs requt.el in a r'-liitiou r'-liitiou iiiImhIiicihI IimImv by lteprcMii lathe Ilsllinger, repuiilieaii of Ma Mchiisetts, to slop nil coal exMrls SOUTHERN UTAH FIELDS PRACTICALLY LIMITLESS Declaring that tlieetwl fields of Isitli Kane and of (Inrfield counties are practically limitliss, Carl A, Allen, district engineer for the I illicit States burotiii of mintw, is having tests made of the thermal unit con touts of the produet. In the iirnt that tests of the burning qualities of (Continued On 1'uko Knur ) MOST ACUTE SITUATION STILL EXISTING IN UTAH H (Concluded t'rom Page Thre ) H ronl fnun the now flclil Maintain nn H vamgo nn lit the quHMtiefl shown by H itthor I'lnh. iiniiluou of tlii nature, 1 It In slntedttx Allen, n umvctiien twill H he (iHiimeiiwil to olilnin Mtirli flnnn. 1 iHhI hIiI its will lie necsr to open H til) mine In tho two untouched re- H kI(iii. Keeenl mviwtiKntiiius liy tho H fiilontl mine cxtH-rt nre ileclnrtHl liy B Win to lmvo diMlim-xl tho presence of H flcltbi in uliinh lie millions, ierhiiw H hlllluiM of tun of excellent ionl. So H tliontvglily v Allen iinprosst'il with H the iiuiKiiltuile of the ronl inoflsuie H nenr Itanliinlo in OnrNcId county H mid Ml. Cnnm-1 in Khiio nmuty Hint 1 he ilotunuiniNl to make thon-in-ii tests H to satisfy hintiH-lf ns well n to take B step to open up llu new fields. |