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Show BRIGHT OUTLOOK IN COKE SITUATION Snnnyside Plant Will Roach Two-Thirdfl Normal Output This Week. That the Imminent danger of lerlOUS OOnseqUenCeS attending the threatened shortnge of rok for tho valley smelters, cnue.j by the binning of the crusher plant at Hunnvside two weeks ago, has now i ' -j i leems assured, from the official offi-cial statement issued during the das h General Manager Williams of the iTtan Feul company. It appears Ihnt the logs Is not narly so extensive at first anticipated and that hv ths end of the week the company will have the plant In Shape to keep the "melfprs Kolng If they are able to get a small amount of coke fn im outside points Prosppct In Cheering. "The situation bus Improved wonderfttl-l wonderfttl-l during the week pnsl, 1 said Mr Williams Wil-liams "f am sure that by Thursday or Friday at the latest we will have the crushing machinery In shape ho that we can turn out from two-thirds to three-fourths three-fourths of normal output, ..r fiom to loo tops p. r din It the smellers can do as thev hove been doing, secure a small quantity of coke from other points none of the furnaces will be enm-pelled enm-pelled to close Wi bne been shipping some eke to the north, but we will certainly cer-tainly Klvc the local plants the preference so long as a shortage exists. Army of Men Busy. "The first thing we did after the fire w-as to Install electric arc lights, so that there WOUld t'e no Interruption of the repair re-pair work, and about 200 men are now busy. Three shifts are going and this plan will be followed until the work of repairing the plant and the Installation of new machinery is completed." Loss Not So Large. The loss, said -Manager Williams. Is bv no means so large as at llrst reported and estimated He does not believe that It will excied 160, '. as much of the machinery ma-chinery can be. with repnlrs. made capable capa-ble Of satisfactory work It will take from sixty to ulriei days to complete tin-work tin-work of rebuilding the trestles, tipples, etc.. nt the mines, but lu the meantime th.- output of properties win ie maintained main-tained to ke.-p the crusher plant up to Its utmost capacity. |