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Show H MANY NORTHWEST POINTS H GIVEN SUPPLIES Or COAL H WASHIXtlTOV, 1) V, Sept. 11. M ComI is Mug rushed to the Koiih- fl wtwt h Iske MiwKtls from Ulno jnirts H Ht M rale which prouues to mcrl the H thrMltnel slHirlsgc in the stats t 1 the head ol tho (lltmt Ukes licit M winter. This is now indicated h the H WHikl rcM.rt of I lie goologicsl nir- H o on cost prodiiitioii. It is rhowti H Hint in I lie week didwl SojUt Hilar H 4th .the cosl dumiied at IKa Hue M M,rtc totalinl in all 1,071,75(1 loin, ot H which I,ik35;)r2 tons were cargo coal H and :W;tS-l tons essel fudl While H this total was 10 per cunt lens than H tlio prwwling week, .Not it was twice H as Mrtwt as the quaiitit, dunil in H thu iHirresiHiiidinK week of 101(1 and j hut little 1M than that of 1018. It H waa twice as ureat as shinncuts dur- H iug Mime of the wtHks oHrl, in this H mwmiii, when the traffm nuurestion H duusetl a sitimtion which resulted in H thu iwiiance of pntinl) orders li the H inlarslHto eommerte commission to HB iiwire a suppl of coal for the North- H trt. The shiiments to the North- H uust must he loutiuued in more than H ordinal) olume ihning thu runmind- H or of the teason of navigation in ord- H or to make up for the difficulties of H the tarly part of the summer. The H coal thus far shipped h lake this H season totals 12,081,000 tons, us H ngalnst 17,0oU,000 tons during the H orrosMinding period in 1018 and 10,- H 702,000 tons in 1010. Wrong Distribution. jH INDIANAPOLIS, ln.1 , Kept. 11 H Aurling that American coal miners H lime dug about fiftj-three million H mure tons of eoal in 10J0 thuii they B Old in 1010, Ellis bearles, tditor of H (hi United Mine Workers Journal, to- H day declared that "no one ian truth- H fully ui tho miners me resoiisiUlt H for tiny shortuge thnt ma odiir. l'- H erylioily is howling for eoal and oai- H body geems to ho juiiijnnj; on the mm- H ers bcofiuge there is said lu he u uoal H shortage," said Seniles "Whet hus H . Utome of this fifty million tons ex. f cess oer last ear? Where is itf H i Whtn one sto to think shout the situation, he esnnot help lil foil that tliere is something wrong In the distribution dis-tribution of coal '' |