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Show OAR RESTRICTION ORDER SOLVING COAL SHORTAGE W'AHWXOTO.V, 1). C, July VI. According to tho operating executive fo some of the principal coai cairy-ing cairy-ing roads of the country, tho order of tho intcrstntes commerce commission, commis-sion, which restricts tlio use of open-top open-top cars to tho transportatio'i of con), is proving effective as n means to iiid the coal shortage now facing the United States. The order has now been in effect three weeks and has but ten days more to run and tho consensus con-sensus of opinion among the coal oiierators seems to bo that the order should be continued in forco for nt least another thirty days, from July 21st, next. Some of tho offclnls, however, loint out that, iu their opinion, something some-thing should ho done to make o8siblo soma relief to other industries which nro suffering acutely as a result of tho order restricting open cars to the iiso of tho coal trade. Tho stcol industry in-dustry is perhaps the greatest sufferer suffer-er us n result of tho enforrcment of tho order, and many of tho principal steel mills may lmvi to close down, unless some arrangement is made to give Hint industry sufficient cars to moyo ut least u portion of the raw materials needpd at tho nulls. |