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Show Going Back from Gas to Coal. The scarcity of gas continues to play the main part in at least a dozen of the leading ironworks. The falling off in supply and the loss of time are now so discouraging in some mills that the mer threaten to quit work if the chango bacil to coal is not soon made. There art nearly 8,000 jroa workers on both sides of the Monongahela river who have averaged av-eraged little more than half time in the last three weeks. In about ten. mills the restriction on the output of muck iron alone is at least 200 tons a day. There are a number of firms now which will commence to prepare for coal to be used in case gas should give out when the weather gets colder. The change is made in t,he furnaces as they are being repaired from time to time. So far as possible all the mills are run to their utmost, but the average is about two-thirds two-thirds capacity. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. |