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Show NINETY f 01 CENT W MM ! IN COIL PINES EXPECTED TO STEIffi WHEN CALLED. Railroads and Operators Claim to Have j Enough Coal on Hand to Withstand Siege for Five Months,- Trouble in Miners' Union Meeting at Pittsburg. . PXTTSBTJ&a, Pa Feb. 7. T. L. Lewis, national rice-president of the United Mint Workers of America, who was ordered to Pittsburg by Presi- dent Mitchell to investigate the trouble among; tne miners and officers of District No. S, arrived today from Indianapolis and attended the conven- I tion of the Pittsburg district miners. Mr. Lewis refused to , discuss the affairs of the miners' organization. District President Patrick Dolan and Vice-President Scllingham, whose resignations were demanded by the convention yesterday, were in their seats today as if nothing had happened. Their disregard of the resolution reso-lution angered the delegates and they appealed to Vice-President Lewis, who said: "I have been sent here by President Mitchell in an endeavor to . straighten out the trouble in the Pittsburg district. As yet, however, I . have no instructions from him as to procedure, and will have to withhold with-hold a decision until his instructions are received." ly to strike in the soft coal district, he ' said he found that. miners there were much weaker in organization than was usually supposed, and he based his calculations on the proportion of nonunion non-union men and the result of former soft coal strikes. Much." Anthrecits -on, Hand. - - -y - , - "As to anthracite." he said, "the average summer consumption Is two million tons a month and active winter win-ter consumption throughout the country coun-try la eight million tons a month. Up to the present time, the consumption has been far behind the quantity mined. About sixteen million tons of anthracite have been mined In excess of the demand, and there are nearly two month before April L in which coal can be mined. For some time back the railroad companies have been ' stocking up anthracite and they never had any such large supply before." NEW TORK, Feb. 7. Following the meeting of presidents of several anthracite an-thracite coal roads yesterday, there was an Intimation In quarters friendly to the operators that anthracite which had been mined was so much in excess of the demand that a shutdown, in the mines may be necessary if there is no strike on April 1. Ninety Per Cent May Strike. Henry S. Fleming, secretary of the bituminous coal trade, which includes most of the large soft coal firms, and the secretary of the Anthracite Coal Operators' association, made public estimates es-timates which he had been collecting as to the probable proportion of miners who will obey the strike order. In the anthracite regions, he said. 90 per cent of the miners would strike. Soft Coal Miners' Weak. In calculating the men who are like- Five Months' Supply. Mr. Fleming estimated that even allowing al-lowing for cold weather there would be easily a five-months' supply of anthracite an-thracite on hand April L The prospect of a coal strike has revived re-vived Interest in the coal supply stations sta-tions which the various railroad companies com-panies have constructed near the city since the last strike in the anthracite regions. -Heavy Railroad Store. ; An estimate of the storage capacity of these stations was given yesterday as follows: The Lehigh Valley railroad Perth Amboy, 200,000 tons; South Plalnfleld, 310,000 tons; Jersey City. 45,000 tons; Newark. 28,000 tons; Ithaca. 50.000 tons. The Delaware & Hudson railroad Rondout, 200.000 tons; Weehawken, 60,-000 60,-000 tons. The Pennsylvania railroad South " Amboy, 187,000 tons. The New Tork. Susquehanna & Western West-ern railroad Coalburg, 200,000 tons; Pompton, 25,000 tons; Edgewater. 6000 tons. The Delaware. Lackawanna St Western West-ern Hoboken, 40.000 tons. None Stored In New York. "The land is too valuable on Manhattan Man-hattan Island,' said a representative of Burns Bros., retail dealers, yesterday, yester-day, "to permit local dealers to lay in any considerable reserve supply In their yards when a strike In the anthracite an-thracite region is likely. Most of the local yards have already Increased their supply to their capacity. Further than that they must depend on the coal roads. So far there has been no indication that a shortage of coal Is Hkely. but if a strike is declared the tightening process will begin without -much delay." . t , |