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Show NINETY-TWO PER CENT AND BEnER UTAH'S I MIS I LABOR SHORTAOE IN LOCAL TERRITORY SMALL. Market Losses and Transportation Disability Amounts to But Very Ltttlo In Carbon Fields Fourth of July Interferes With Output For tho First Week This Month. Correspondence Tho Hun. WASHINGTON, I). C, July 12.-A 12.-A decrcaso in production during the week ended July 3d is attributed to it diminished output on I'riday mid Saturday on llio eve of tho Fourth of July holiday The total production of soft coal, including lignite and ronl i)ked at tho mines, is estimated at 10,22.r,000 net tons, it decrease when compared with the preceding week of :W5,000 tons The output was, however, how-ever, larger than that of tho week of Juno lDlh, before the scrvieo order granting eoinplcto priority for coal mines In tho use of ocntop cars went into effect The dully telegraphic ro-orts ro-orts of loading on tho principal carriers car-riers show that during the first four days production was running at almost al-most exactly tho same rnto as during Iho week of June 2(lth. On Friday nnd Saturday, July 2d and 3d, how-ever, how-ever, loadings were twonty-nino hundred hun-dred nnd fort) -three ears less than those of tho corrciouding days of th preceding week. It is n familiar fact that tho Indctondcnro Day celebration cele-bration nffects production before nnd after the holiday itself, nnd to this enuso the declining output of Fndnv iind Saturday is ascribed. Produe-Uon Produe-Uon during tho first hundred and fif ty-clght working days of tills year Itiui been 202,2?J,Ono tons. Tho yenr 1020 is thus fifteen and thrcoMptar. xer million i6nT behind "1017 -nifd twenty-six nnd three quarters behind 1018, but is oter forty-four millions of tons ahead of 1011). For tho week ending Juno 20th Utah's mines produced pro-duced 02.1 jcr rent of eapnclty Total losses from nil causes amounted to liut 7.0 per cent Transportation disability dis-ability was 3.8, Inbor shortage, 2.1, nnd no market losses 2 per rent. Improvement Shown. Mine roMrts for tho week mdod Juno 20th show mi liuprmomcnt in wr supply apparently nttnhutnhlu'to tho order effective Juno 21st, direct-Ing direct-Ing priority in tho use of opcutop equipment for coal mines Trans--jiortation disability remnlned tho dominant factor limiting production. Losses duo to nil otlier causes wero at n minimum. Local strkes of small fonscqticnco wero reiiorled from Illinois, Il-linois, Indiana, Southern Ohio, Central Cen-tral Pennsylvania nnd tho Cumberland-Piedmont field In Oklahoma, Kansas and Alabama tho strike losses Hero somewhat larger, amounting to -1 2 per cmt, fi 1 per cent and 8 1 per cent, ros)ectively In the Kenovn-Thacker Kenovn-Thacker field tho interruption to work associated with tho efforts to unionize tho district continued ,Iosses titlnhutod to tho labor difficulties amounted to 277 per cent of thtf full working time, nn inereuso when compared com-pared with tho preceding week. More widoly distributed than strikes wore losses of working time ascribed by tho operators to laltor shortage. On tho nverngo for the eountty ns u v hole, -however, tho lnlwr shortage loss amounted to only 3 per rent, and tho combined loss attributed to strikes nnd labor shortage togothor was but 7)0 per rent As indicated by tho mino reports demnnd beeamo oven more intense than before. Hast of tho Mississippi no mino reported loss of working time beeausu of Inek of orders Wost of that river the only states in which no market losses wero reported wero Iowa, Texas, Colorado nnd Montana. Ihe nvOrago loss on account of no market was insignificant insignifi-cant only 0 2 per cent During tho eorresjKmding week of 1010 it wiis 227 5 per cent. Service Order Out. Romeo Order No. 0, directing that coal mines bo given priority in tho tiso of opentop equipment for a period per-iod of thirty dajs beginning Juno 21st, wns in effect throughout tho week of tho 20th. Tho reports, there (fore, measure tho Improvement in car supply effected. Partly or wholly ns tho result of tho order tho nverago -working tlmo over tho country ns n wholo increasod from B3 0 to 65 5 por cent fultlmc, nnd tho average loss attributed to inr shortago declined from 38.4 to 37.0 per cent Tho improvement im-provement is the more significant when it Is remembered that it wa no-compliihcd no-compliihcd in spite of further out-brenks out-brenks of the switchmen's stuke oi gainers serving the Somerset, Cum- bortand-Piedmont nnd the Fairmont fields nnd Sec C of Central Pcnnsyl-vnnln Pcnnsyl-vnnln which, for n time nt least, practically prac-tically stopped enstbonnd shipments from those districts. Annlysls of re-ports re-ports indicate that although tho improvement im-provement wns widespread it was by no means univcrsnl, and that in many districts the car supply grew even loss satisfactory than before A gen-oral gen-oral improvement occurred in Ohio, Northern Pennsylvania, Westmorc-Innd Westmorc-Innd county, Sec C of Central Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, in Iho Cumberland-Piedmont, Panhandle, Pocahontas nnd the Kenova-Thneker fields, in nil or Ken-tueky Ken-tueky excipt tho Hazard region ami in Virginia nnd Alabama Central Illinois nnd.tho-UoIlcvillo district reported re-ported nn improvement, but in Franklin Frank-lin nnd Saline counties tlpt loss win pfticdlnweckT WhcrffirTcts' K which tho car shortago grew more nruto were the Hazard, Lognn, New Hiver, Winding Gulf, Fairmont nnd Pittsburg fields nnd sections in Gen-Irnl Gen-Irnl Pennsylvania. Tho seventy of tho prevailing car shortage is indicated in-dicated by the fact that only four districts dis-tricts reporting Vust of tho Mississippi Mississ-ippi suffered n trnnsKirtation loss smaller than 20 per rent. In tin the loss was more than fiO lpr cent nml In three Fairmont, Hazard and Sec. A of Central lVnnsyb.nnln it exceeded 00 por tent West of tho Mississippi no change in tho ear supply was ro-xrted ro-xrted except in Iowu and Kansas, where tho recent shortago of cars be-tamo be-tamo mora apparent. Tho severest loss, retried from Kansas, amounted to 300 per cent. Ooko Is Declining. Following the courso of tho production produc-tion of both anthracite nnd bituminous bitumin-ous coal tliu output of beehive coko declined the wiok of July 3d. Tho total production for tho country is estimated on tho basis of railroad shipments ut 378,000 net tons, n decrease de-crease of 0 0 per cent whin compared with tho week before. The diclino affected af-fected all tho Eastern districts. In tho West little change was reported. Tho cumulative production form January Jan-uary 1, 1020, to dato is 10,010,000 tons ns against 0,773,000 tons during tlio eorroKmUiig jieriod of 1010. No material Increase was shown in take shipments during tho third week of operation of tho pool ro established establish-ed by Servlco Order No 5 Tho total dumpings nt Lako lino ports wero 011,2-10 tons, an Increase of 16,100 tons Most of thei Increased tonnage went to vessels, however Dumpings of cargo coal were only fifteen hundred hun-dred nnd fifty-five tons greater than dining tho jir coding week. Total lako shipments siueo the he ginning of tho season now amount to 1,130,000 tons ns compared with 8,-601,000 8,-601,000 tons in 1018 and 10,05J,000 tons during 1010 With more than one-third of the season of navigation gone, the lake movement is thus nearly near-ly four and u half million tons bo-hind bo-hind 1018 and nearly six million tons behind 1010. |