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Show ., GAR SHORTAGE HITTING UTAH'S COAL HIS HARD KJENERAL SITUATION SHOWS REVERSE CONDITION. In Spito of tho Largest Production For Any Week of tho Year, Utah's I Mines Aro Kept Down to Low Pig nro By Rail Disability Labor Troubles Variable. -Corrccpondenco Tho Sun WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct 25 'Tho total output of coal for tho week of October lulh was with ono exception excep-tion tho greatest of any week sinco the ' airmistlcc Tho preliminary estimates placo tho production nt 12,135,000 net" tons, an incrcaso of forty-four thousand thou-sand tons over tho preceding week. That 12,135,000 tons Is n largo weekly week-ly production will ha appreciated from tho fact that except for tho period of maximum activity in tho summer of iho war jenr 1018, it has been surpassed sur-passed but twico during tho timo over which records of weekly output ox-tend. ox-tend. A production of 12,113,000 net -tons was nttained in early December, 3017, and in tho last full week bolero 'tho coal stnko of 1010 an even great cr output 13,110,000 tons --was reached. With tho slnglo exception iof tho latter, tho week of October 10, 2020, stands ns tho maximum sineo ttho armistice. Tho nvorpgo production produc-tion per working day was 2,022,000 ftons. This, too, was almost tho grc it-est it-est since tho armistice, nlthough surpassed sur-passed by tlio dally roto in tho five Jns week of January 3, 1020, as well ns in tho prc-stnko week of October 23,1010. Preliminary reports Indicate tthat loadings on Mondny and Tuos-day Tuos-day of Inst week, October 18th and nOlh, amounted to 78,311 cars. This was nlwut 1.5 per cent less than tho 4. 70,192 cars loaded on tho correspond-v correspond-v r Jng days of, tho preceding week. Pro ksr-iiUi&,L&t'u-0 hundred and fjriytfrFw'e.rMiij: of this cor Li-f6fals '128,330,000 tons. Tho J car 1020 f is thus about ten millions of tonl be- , 1iind 1017, nnd about forty four and n f lialf millions behind 101B, but is for- 1ytwo million tons nhcad of 1010. In j ihls eonnictiou it should be remom- liored that production during 1018 (. exceeded consumption and provided for n net addition to consumer storks by tho end of thn enr of approxl-wately approxl-wately thirty milium tons. In 1010 tho condition whs reversed. Consumption Consump-tion exceeded prodnotion .ni'I tlioro : -was n nut draft on stocks of perlmtw i -10,000,000 tons for tho joar. For tho -week undlng with October 0th Utah niliiw induccd 02 0 per cent of full oopaeltv. Total loasoa from nil cause -wore 37.1 por cent. Tranijrtatlon I llsnbility was 30 0 cr cent, labor shortage 0 2 and mine disability 0 0 !per tint. Tlio Utah rt'iwrt covers eightiiu operating mines with n weekly week-ly eopaoity of n hundred nnd flft) olght thoiiHaud tons. , Year's Largest Week. fTho week of Ootobor 0th was mark-oil mark-oil by tho largost production nttained in 11120, although ns shown by tho ,' roport based on railroad shipments it -was in turn to bo surpassed by the output of thoweekendedwith Ootobor lOtli. Progress was made in sottliug labor disputes, tho total low attributed attribut-ed to labor being tho smallest in nuy weok sinco mid-July. A widespread improvement in ear supply wits also reported. In splto of tho iuoroasod production thero was no sign of any , alaokonlng in tho strong doinuud which has prevailed this vear. Not n mine reporting indicated low of timo on nccouut of lack of ordors Tor tho first timo since beforo tho outbreak of tho davmon's strike last July losses duo to labor wcro roducod to 7.0 per eent of fulltimo. This was n deoided , improvement in comparison with tho preceding week whon tho labor loss had amounted to 10 8 nor cent. Tho chango was mndo possible by tho settlement set-tlement of two sorioim disputos the striko in Northern nnd Kustern Ohio ' -nnd that in tho unionised district of i "N'ostom Kentucky, In tho former region tho striko losses declined from t)07 to 20 por cent of fulltimo. In tho lattor district they dropped from 143 7 to 0 5 por cent. In tho striko affected areas of tho JMiddlo und tho Southorn Applachlans tho roturn to normal is bIoh. Practically Practi-cally no chango in tho situation in Alabama was reported, lossos duo to labor shortage nnd strikes amounting in that district to 21.1 per cent ns .against 21 0 por cent tho preceding IAvock. In tho Kenova-Thncker field, however, tlioro was indication of a gradual return to work. Lossos attributed at-tributed to labor amounted to 50 2 n per cent of fulltimo as against 010 per cent tho week beforo and as against an everago last July of ovct 25 per cent. Ik ports weio received during tho week ended October Dili from oighty-five mines in tho district which produced 00,800 tons out of a present capacity of 178,037 tons. Throughout tho West. West of tho Mississippi Btriko losses woro of small importance oxcept in Arkansas In that state tho fourteen mines rcjwrting suffcrd n loss of 2-1 5 nor cent on nccount of labor trouble. With tho return of striking miners to work tho railroads were called upon to furnish n lnrgcr number of cars, n fact which accounts for tho reappar-anco reappar-anco of car shortage in the reports from Northern Ohio nnd Wostcrn Kentucky. In spito of tho increased demand for transportation, however, tho nvorogo loss attributed to this disability in nil forms dcorcascd from 22 1 to 21 5 per cent. Tho area of ira-proved ira-proved car supply included Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, so far as rc-Ijorling, rc-Ijorling, Northern West Virginia, nnd tho Winding Qulf, Logan and South-cm South-cm Appalachian fields. In tho llnr.-nrd llnr.-nrd nnd Williamson fields nnd in Virginia. Vir-ginia. Alabama nnd Southern Ohio, the situation underwent no change. In certain districts tho car shortngo be-camo be-camo moro pronounced Chief among them was tho Cumbcrlnnd-Picdmont field, w hero losses duo to transportation transporta-tion increased from 81 to 105 per cent. Other districts to rejwrt increased in-creased stringency in car supply wcro tho how River, Pocahontas, Knnawa, Aortheaslorn Kentucky nnd Harlan county, Ky. West of tlio Mississippi transportation transpor-tation is now tho limiting factor only in Colorado, Utah, Kansas and Okla homa. Tho most pronounced low attributed at-tributed to car shortage in that region occurred in Utah, and amounted to 30 0 per cent of fulllime. Over most of tho central competitive field and In tho Northern Appalachian region transportation losses havo now been reduced to less than 30 per cent. Tho areas of most sevcro transportation disability wcro Kastcrn Kentucky nnd in parts of Southern West Virginia, particularly tho high volatilo fields, rho sevcro loss in the Cumberland-Piedmont Cumberland-Piedmont field 10 5 per cent was a conspicuous nnd probably temporary exception to tho generally fnvoroblo car supply in tho Northern Appalachian Appala-chian field. Ooko and Anthracite. Tho output ofTjccliivocoko con-tinned con-tinned to lluctuato a littlo nbovo tho four hundred thousand tons mark during tho wiok ended October 10th. Tho total production is estimated on tho basis of shipments over tho pnn eiiwl ooko earring roads at 103,000 tons, mi increase of threo thousand tons over tho revised figuro of production pro-duction for tho pn ceding week. In tho Connillsvillo region tho output was practically stationary, amounting amount-ing to 213,200 tons. Tho cumulative produilion since tho beginning of tho year now stands nt 10,871,000 tons, nn i ..uo ovor 1010 of 1,380,000 tons or 0 0 per cent. Steady improvement in tho production produc-tion of unthraelto Is indicated by the record of shipments originated on the iirlnclpnl nnthrncito earning roads. Iondings for tho week ended October 10th woro 30,111 cars, nn incrcaso of ono hundred and fifty-threu enrs. This suggests a total production, including in-cluding mino fuel and salt to local trade, of 1.855.000 not (mm. (). Inn. t..n., ui j,ouu.uuu nui ions, ma larg-ost larg-ost in any week suite last July. Tho out rent production, how over, is still short of that maintained nt this season sea-son a enr ago, when n weekly rato of 1,026,000 not tons was nttained. |