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Show COAL SUPPLY NEARLYNOfil Nevada, However, Has Less Than Thirty Days' Stock on Hand WASHINGTON. Nov. 7. Slocks of bituminous coal stored by commercial J consumers and retailers In the United : states on October l. were approximately approxi-mately as great as In normal years,! in spite of the five months' coal strike' of 1922, according to figures givn out by Federal Fuel Distributor Spens. ' gathered by a surv ey undertaken by I the bureau of the census and the geo-logical geo-logical survey. l li si 04 Kn pigi RED. Mr Spens indicated that 2'i.mui.OCio tons of coal in storage was the mini-mum mini-mum on which the countrv could get i alung, but pointed out that In add!-' tton to the 30.ooo.0no tons now In1 j commercial stock there were quan-! titles ln household cellars, on steam-) ,shlp docks, and in transit over railroads rail-roads which made the current supply' considerably larger. Summarizing conditions as to the distribution , ( the coal supply. Mr. Spens said" AMOl i s in S r HES "At the actual rate of consumption In September, stocks necessary to avoid curtailment of operations at Industrial In-dustrial plants other than steel and , by-products coke on hand on Oc-j cooer i wouia sunire tor 37 days, the supply varying from state to state in part as f ol lows: "Less than 30 days: California. Nevada, Texas. Kansas. Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota. Iowa und Illinois. 'Thirty days and less than fin days: Washington. Oregon. Jdaho. Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. "Sixty days and less than 90: Montana. Mon-tana. "Ninety days and over: Arizona " ' Utah was not mentioned In the summary. sum-mary. oo |