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Show BIG FLEET WILL NEED QUARTER MILLION TONS WASHINGTON. Sept. 12. Two hundred hun-dred and iifty-threo thousand tons of coal, exclusive of that to bo shipped in Government collieries, will be re- dutred to get the Atlantic battleship j Hoot to the Pacific coast and proporlv 1 coal it at !Mare island, according tn tho 1 estimates made by the Equipment Bu- J rcau of tho Navy Depart menr, which j has called for proposals for -jupplving i the necessary fuel. Of this aggregate, 138.000 Ions are semi-bituminous and ! the remainder Welsh coal. The formor I is to be shipped from Atlantic ports in vessels either in American or for-cign for-cign register, according to the torma. |