Show COAL STORAGE S PRICE PRUCE WILL BE SHORT SH LIVED that there will lc ul p further reduction in the price of j j h coal foi fol storage but tat on tle contrary the continual increase in be the cost of production will force the restoration of winter pricks possibly luly 1 and not later thin august 1 ia Is the opinion of A D pierson general sales agent of the utah F fut uel 1 com compier piny nr in speaking of the situation mr pierson calli attention to the fact that the winter were established by the united states fuel administration after a careful I 1 study ludy of all matters uffe eting the market and that the reduction of 40 cents pr ton for summer storage was as to stimulate early b lying and to keep the mines raines busy litber than because of any decrease de creise in the cost of production during the summer the slowing up of industrial activity following the armistice a mild winter and an early summer all combined to lower the demand for coal and the mines have been able to operate but part of the tide time during such time the overhead expense is as teavy as during the time of f maximum production coal companies are anxious that users fill their bins at the present time even though the producers receive a smaller price in order that the mines may be kept in operation most of the time and that a rush demand may nob not follow early in a the fall |