Show BIG JUMP EXPERt EXPECT IN PRICES OF C CU WITHIN fEW D DA DAL l f j Fuel Retailers Declare Declarer Have Raised Cost Fir Per Cent Prices In coal which have har been to soar skyward for tor th th month will Ill Jump within th the next next 1 lays day according to local coal OD Oper OperA who sa say that already a a. number coal df-alers df have havo advanced nd their o of front from 5 CO riO to 75 Pt cents centa per fer per ton With the lie stock of ot tho local dealers who have not already ir r a adY i their prices becoming exhausted I I atom say these firms will b be for force c advance ad their quotations Tho advance Is primarily laid JAM aM f advance of 27 i per cent In wa Wage wag granted the miners by t il oral eral wage board Under the old wholesale wholesale- price I f fact ct before beCore April 10 20 mine prices price Q c cd l for tor lump and nd nut coal coat were per pcr ton and for slack t D p sf Retail TIet prices in effect at that thit- were 85 for lump and nut and per ton tor for slack i With the present raise In Jn tf t wholesale prices quoted ar are 4 14 p per for lump for nut and U. U slack sl The retail quotations are arc for tor lump for tor nut and 50 s slack alack Dealers point out hor however tia freightage amounts amount to 10 With I for Cor drayage age and federal tax this large e overhead above f the wh wi sale costs the they say little profit i U li ted tho tile retailer j. j The coal situation here according t local loc operators is better than in Ina In places throughout hout tho the country sa say that In other retailers ma may figure for tor a Il much la Ia lai margin of ot profit than allowed ha beThe her be The Tho coal l control In la this state Is Is' under federal Jurisdiction and ancS aa as a asuit suit no investigation of ot the the- pr pi raise r has been made by the Stats stata departments dealing the tho fair price affairs 1 |