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Show DEALERS CONCERNED i OVER COAL SUPPl'i The possibility of a coal famine, iX-rv 1 sloned by the shortage of freight C"1 said to be a matter of grave i:once'''-.c local coal dealers. It Is said that V . situation Is even worse than at any s.v-, lar time for the past dozen years i-cV , that a disastrous shortage is more th.'fv likely. The situation has not been lielpc-cl hi any means, it was stated yesterday, by the attitude of labor in the working of mines. Many coal miners, it is said., left the coal mines last sprine when work slackened slack-ened and have not returned, and labor IS sa id to be at a premium, thus making it. more difficult to supply the market de-n:andJ. de-n:andJ. , The demand this year ha( been unprecedented, un-precedented, larre orders having been placed in anticipation oi' a famine in coal ears. The situation la not very bright, according ac-cording lo loai coat dealers. |