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Show Small Sizes of Coal. It is beyond question that the increased in-creased tonnage of anthracite shipments ship-ments recorded during the last two months has been largely made up of the junior sizes. Tills portion of the fuel output is assuming a much larger share in the supplying of what may now rightly be termed the domestic trade. Under modern methods the use of the smaller coals Is of much importance import-ance in the healing arrangements of the habitations of a large portion of the city populace quite as much as the use of the sizes scheduled as domestic do-mestic coal. It Is fortunate that means have been availed of to utilize this tonnage to good advantage elsewhere than in manufacturing establishments, but the fact remains that with so large an output of the so-called steam sizes the retail dealer in the small places, where, after all, the old-fashioned domestic do-mestic trade now has its stronghold, is not able to count on the tonnage for his requirements which the tonnage statements of output would seem to imply. Coal Trade Journal. |