Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-21 | Page 1 | Anthracite Coal Gains Attention of Bootleggers

Anthracite Coal Gains ins Attention I Of Bootleggers Deliveries ries Are re Usually Made by Trucks at Night With Prices S 10 10 to 20 Per Short TonI Ton PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA Jan 21 AP Anthracite bootlegging a new new newin industry in- in which sprung up as a result of f the hard coal strike is growing rapidly Starting In a small way way the practice has hM spread until hundreds are re engaged In it Some of the bootleggers bootleggers' supplies are e picked from the culm banks This his is permitted by nearly all coal companies the only restrictions being eing against the use of trucks and andle the le sale of the recovered coal Thc Ti-ic he o 0 restrictions however are ignored by the bootleggers who deliver most of their coal tit lt t night and nd collect from 10 to 20 for a short lort ton of ot inferior interIor grade The r g-r greater ater part of the supply is isaken taken aken from outcrops and old workings work work- ings in Isolated places Fleets of trucks rucks are busy nightly in the vicInity of e and and- Hazleton Hazle- Hazle ton on The new Industry first made its appearance in Sunbury nineteen niles miles from the anthracite mines early arly in December Approximately 0 tons of ot bootleg bootleg- coal is sold there here dally daily Sortie Some of th the coal is broken by m means ns o of rs Instead instead in- in stead ead of s. s ing through a b breaker ea er Scores s 01 arrests have been made and nd officers of the U United Mute Mine j I Yorkers Workers have endeavored to sto stop the ic practice without success It remained for Thomas Murphy a carpenter to bring brIng- the first bootleg anthracite to Phila- Phila He returned He-returned returned last night from rom a a trip through the mining re- re Ilon glon Ion with his motor car loaded down own with bags of coal he had dug from rom the culm banks near Hazleton