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Show SOFT COAL OUTPUT LARGEST IN STRIKE i WASHINGTON, May 14. Reports on bituminous coal production indicate a current output of 4.500.000 tons a week, the geological survey reported Sunday, adding that this was a total greater than at an) time since the min-( min-( r.- ..U-'d out on April 1. In all Hi-' unionised producing districts in the country, anthracite production during the week ending May 13 remained praclically nil, the report said. The survey's report indicated that lack of market demand continued the principal factor in holding down production. pro-duction. Estimating that consumption I of bituminous coal was now around eight million tons a week, the survey said 3 1-2 million tons was tn-ing taken tak-en weekly from the surplus stcoks put Into storage by consumers in antic I patlon of the st rike. For the wek ond ins May C, complete coal production figures show an output of 4,161000 ! tons of bituminous, and six thousand tons of anthracite, this last being the ! product from culm banks and river ! drfdglng operations Approximately 700.000 tons of coal ! are held in railroad cars around thfl ! mines, awaiting buyers, the survey j fouud. The greatest increase in operations during the last week was noted in Kentucky and W.-st Virginia. |