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Show COAL PRODUCTION FOR alAH SURPRISE TO a MANY FIGURES TOP. THEriRST EIGHT ,' I MONTHS OF THE YEAH. Output T:r T-j Tlno Froa Mints Re- rMportlnj I: CJloso to Font Millions iof Tons Reports From tho Country As Wholo Show Generally Bettor jConditions Prevailing Everywhere. Correspondence Tho 8un. JfWASIIINOTON, I). C, lit. 4.-ffho 4.-ffho week of September 36th, last, was marked the country over by nn in-Tcrwise in-Tcrwise in the production of "bituminous "bitumin-ous coal nnd a general resumption of Wbrk in the anthracite region. The total output of soft coal, including lfgnito nnd coal coked, is estimated at ijcvcn million, eight hundred nnd Jpvrnteen thousand tons. Unlei reviled revil-ed down ward this figure w'll stntid ns ,tbo largest production in nny week HUicolnst January, not exceeding the second week of August, which benefit-nd benefit-nd by tho cars accumulated during tho ilaymcn's strike Tho rate cr working work-ing day wns 1,OSOO,000 tons, tho high-jt high-jt with one exception since Inst Jan. -.try, the exception being the five days week of Ijtlwr Day. Preliminary 7?Kirls indicato that production on Monday nnd Tuesday of last week, September 20th and 27lh, was nt Hast equal to that of the corresond- Iing days of tho previous week. Production Pro-duction during the first two hundred nd twenty-eight working days of this year has been 302,1-17,000 net itom. Tho year 1020 is thus about Ihirtcm and n half million tons be. hind 1017, and a llttlo over forty-four million tons behind 1018, but ii fifty-mi fifty-mi nnd a half million tons behind 11)118, nnd fifty-ono nnd n half million ttni ahead or. 1DIU,, In this connection connec-tion hfcehould bo 'rcmcinhcredvthnl bvdu'ctTptTMurlnt; 1018 exceeded con-6ipllnn con-6ipllnn -lid prwrde"dfnr'it,netnddi-tion prwrde"dfnr'it,netnddi-tion to consumer stocks by tho end of tho year of approximately thirty million mil-lion tons. In 1010 the condition was reversed, consumption exceeded production pro-duction and there was n net draft on stocks of porlmiH forty million tons for tho year. Utah's estimated production pro-duction for the first eight months of this yenr is 3371,000 net tons. In July it wns 517,000 ton nnd in August Aug-ust -170,000 tons. Figures fur Utah for tho weeks ending September 11th and 18th nre not available. A general gen-eral resumption of work in the anthracite anth-racite region brought the totnl production pro-duction for tho week ended September Septem-ber 30th up to 1,050,000 tons or within with-in 0110 hundred nnd sixty-eight thou, isnnd tons of tho output during tho I last week before tho strike. On Mou-I Mou-I day, September 20th, loading were reported by tho nlno principal car riers ns forty-threo hundred and five curs or ubout 73 per cent of the pro-striko pro-striko average. Thereafter, ns men returned in grantor numbers, shipments ship-ments steadily Inerensed, reaching on Friday five thousand eight hundred nnd ninety-three earn or slightly in excess ex-cess of the pro-strike nvorage. In. complete return of loadings on the first four days of lust week, September Septem-ber 27th to 30th, Indicato thnt production pro-duction for the week will be up lo normal. Labor Disturbances. Tho week of September 18th wiw marked by the largest production attained at-tained In nny week sinro last .January with tho single exception of tho see-on see-on week of August. Comparison with tho week of September 11th means little becnuso that week wns affected by tho Labor Day holiday. When compared with tho week of September Septem-ber 4th tho latest fulltimo week, how-ever, how-ever, n gcnoral improvement in oar supply wns reported. Labor disturbances disturb-ances woro still 11 material factor limiting production in somo localities, although on tho whole overshadowed by transportation disability. Smaller losses in other districts were offset by tho oxtonBivo strikes in Western Kentucky, Ken-tucky, tho Williamson field, and Alabama, Ala-bama, which raised tho leverage loss ovor tho country ns n whole to 10,4 tier cent. A your ago tho total labor loss ranged from 4 to 5 per cent. Of tho Western fields, Iown, Arkansas nnd Woslern Kentuoky rowrted serious seri-ous lossos beoauso or strikes. The time lost on account of labor in Iowa inoronsed from 5.0 to 14.0 per cont, and in Arkansas from 23.(1 to 30.0 por cont. In Wosteru Kentucky more than half the capacity was shut down, either on account of labor shortage or strike, In tho Fast significant labor losses were nil confined to Central Pennsylvania, Virginia, tho Konovn-Thaoker Konovn-Thaoker field and Alabama. In Virginia Vir-ginia n loss of 21,5 por cent wus asciibod by tho operator- to the labor shortage. Tho deadlock in tho Ken ova-Thackor field continued with two-thirds of tho capacity closed G.T.OLSENMN SUDDENLY I Funeral Services and Burial at Emery 1 Today, Friday. George Theodore Olsen, Sr., 60 years of ago, farmer, slockraiser nnd merchant of the town of Kniery In Kinery county, Hissed away suddenly Inst TtMtday evening nt Latter-day Sninls Hospital nt Salt Lake City after a recent illness of almut a week, although he had been in (anir IismIUi for more than n year Mst. He had been at the state capital off and on for several months for treatment. Deceased De-ceased wns Itorn December 17; 1800, nt Fairview, in Sniqiole county, the son of Ole C. Olsen nnd Margaret Jors en-son en-son Olten. Ho wns one uf t lie first mcrohants nt Kmery, nnd nt the time of his death wns connected with the M. K. Parsons company, stocks buyers. buy-ers. Surviving him are his widow nnd twelve children, Mrs. G. M. Ilurr of Sallnn, G. T. Olsen, Jr., of Rich-field, Rich-field, J. Milton Olsen of Price, Mrs. C. II. Smith of Salt Lake City nnd Kntic, Gerald, Lydia, Dwaino, Jesse, June, Paul nnd Wilton Gale Olsen. Ho is nlso survived by nine grandchildren. grand-children. The remains were taken to Kmery yesterday by wny of Snllnn and will rest in the family plot beside thoso of his first wife and others of the family. The funeral is this (Friday) (Fri-day) nfternoon, n number of Price friends attending. Deceased fur n number of years had been prominent in tho development of Kastern Utah, especially the country to tho south of Cnstlo Dale. At different times during dur-ing tho past twenty-five years he was engaged in business nt Price. No man stood higher among those who knew him best. Ho will be greatly missed nnd mourned by very many coplo. down by the strike. Tho second full week or the strike in Alabama, brought Ii 1 1 lo change. Reports woro received from n hundred nnd thirty Alabama mines, which produced -two hundred nnd twcnty-lhrco thousand tun nnd worked on the nverngo G8.1 cr cont of tho time. There wns n slight in-erenso in-erenso in totnl tlmo lost on nceount of Inlior shortage nod strike com bined, which rnso from -.). to 23.1 pencenjt. A still further reduction in iwtcntfnl output wasfnuseil ljy-Jhe absence of men on strl-o aTTuTiiw I which continued to work shorthand-ed. shorthand-ed. The railroads during the week of September 18th furnished transixir-nation transixir-nation sufficient for tho production I of 11,073,000 net Ion of coal, which wns an increase of five hundred and six thousand tons over the week of September llli, the latest fulltime week. When eomiHtred with that week (the record of the week of September Sep-tember Uth is not n fair standard of comparison because of the Inlior Day holiday), the week of the 18th showed snlHttnntiiil betterment of the ear supply. sup-ply. Somo Districts Improve. While In Indiana, Ohio, Weatern Pennsylvania, Southeastern Kentucky nnd the low volatile field of Southern South-ern West Virginia the condition wither underwent no change or altered for the worse, I here was it marked im provement in other district. In Virginia, Vir-ginia, Alalmmft nnd Western Kentucky Ken-tucky the Improvement was ierha chiefly due lo the decreased demand for oars which accmmuiml the lalair disturbance-. A notable chainie for tho better, however, occurred in the Somerset and Cumberland-Piedmont region and in the high volatile field of Southern West Virginia. Other district to report improvement were Northern West Virginia, Illinois, the1 Haxurd field ami the State of Kansas, Kan-sas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Colorado, Colo-rado, The percentage indicato that over most ot I'ennn.NlvHiiiu and Mary-laud Mary-laud tho transportation Iom was under un-der 15 per cent. In the central competitive com-petitive field, outside of the Pittsburg Pitts-burg district, the trmiqortation Iom ranged from to 32 per cent. Most of West Virginia, except the Panhandle, Pan-handle, the CumhorlamMPiedmont field, and districts benefiting by the strike in the Kenova-Thaeker region, rtqiorted losses exceeding 30 per cent. The region of most acute car shortage short-age wus ns before Hasten) Kentucky. In tho Hasard field the loss attributed attribut-ed to transportation wns 50.0 per cent, in tho Southern Appalachian rogion it was 40.2 por cent and in the Harlan field, 03.5 per cent. In spile of the improvement in ear supply there oan he no mistaking the fact that the dominant cause limiting the production produc-tion of soft coal was lack of transportation. trans-portation. Movement to Lakes Of tho coal moving up the Great Lnkos to Anion can destination only n iart goes to Lake Siqierior, tho hulauco boing to Lake Huron and to I Lake Miohlgau joints. Total receipts for tho season of 1020 to September 30th are reported as 1,018,000 nut tons. This was an inoiease over 1010 of 134,000 tons. It is to be noted, however, that because of tho time re. quired for transporting the coal from tho nuthrneite region to tho baud of tho lukos, receipts nt Duluth-Suporior have probably not yet felt the full of- (Continued on Page lil-ht) COAL PRODUCTION TOR UTAH SURPRISE TO MANY. (Concluded from Pairs One ) fict of the cut in production caused by tho strike Tho lako movement fell off sharply during tho week end-id end-id September 26th. Ditumlnotis coal dumped nt Lnko Krio ports is reported report-ed ns 838,003 tons of which 8-10,781 were cargo coal and 39,212 wns vessel fuel This wns 118,810 tons or 11 pcf cent less thnn during tho preceding witk and was but littlo better than tho pcrfonnatiro during tho five-day week of Lnlior Day. Although greater than the corresponding week of 1010, in comptrison with 1018, the week showed n decrease of 35'),000 "tons. The ciimulativo lako movement from the owning of tho season now stands at 14,800,000 tons as against 21,006,000 in 1018 nnd 18,118,000 in 1010. Tho )onr 1020 is thus still far behind 1018, but is oScrtaking 1010 It is nliout six and three-quarter millions mil-lions tons behind 1018 mid is still thrco nnd n half million tons behind 1010 Tho movement to tido again declined slightly dunng tho wick ended Septimbcr 26th. Total dumpings dump-ings nro rcortod ns 21,272 curs, n decrease de-crease of ono huiidrtd nnd sIxt)-four cars whin compared with tho preceding pre-ceding wick. The detronnc occurred at Now York At Philadelphia dumpings dump-ings held their own nnd at Baltimore, Hampton ltoads and Charleston the) increasid Tho production of bcehlvo coko continued to fluctuate around the 100,000-tou mark during tho wick ended Septimbcr 26th. The total output, out-put, estimated from shipments over all the largo coke earning railroads, is placed at 101,000 net tons ns against 101,000 during tho preceding wesk. Production decreased in Pennsylvania, but increased in Virginia, Keutuck) and Alabama In tho Comicllsvillo region the output was U0.',810 tons ns coin pa rod with 200,030 dunng the preceding Meek In toiiiarisou witli tho corresponding Meek of 1010, tho first of tho steel stnke, tho prosfiit production shows an increase. Tho ciimulativo output from the beginning of tho jiw now stands nt 16,001.000 net tons, nu increase of 1,200,000 tons over tho corresponding period of 1010. |