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Show 1 OUTPUT NOW BACK TO RORMUL, IT ISjI n:mtvAnv rintFoitMANci: kx. CKKDH THAT Or DIXOtHKIU Ixwmv) to Rhlpmcntfl of Coal From Car Hliortuf-o Decrcaolna; fniichtly the Ia-i Few Weeks Mines of tho Carbon County Dlxlrlct Working Alt Atcrnjto of Tlireo nnd Four Days. Production of coal tho country oer returned almont to normal durlnK tho week ended February 16th. The to tat bituminous output Including lls nlto and coal made Into coke Is esll mated at 11,01$, 000 net tons. Hourly n million t'ins jrrcUor than In tha preceding week, Thu mtrnite pro. duitlon per working day nas I 047,. 000 tons, n compared with 5,763,000 tons, the dally nverago for February of Inst enr Tho performance rr working day was better than nt any time since early Doccmber, except during New Year's week Indeed, be. I iauko New Year's week contained but fle working days, the week noted to- Inl production exceeded that In any week since December th For tho country as n whole the ration ra-tion of tonnage produced to full time capacity was (4 4 per cent during the week ended February fth, tut com pared with 0. per cent during tho preceding week, Louse attributed to car shortagn decreased slightly from 29.3 per cent during the preceding week to 27.7 per cent. The cessation of flood conditions In the high nla-tlln nla-tlln fields or Southwest Virginia nnd In the Southwestern Virginia coal field caused losses duo to mine disability dis-ability to return to normal, Tho Increase In production which marked tho week of February th was effected In Central Pennsylvania, In the Winding tlulf and Pocahontas mid New lllver fields of West Virginia, Vir-ginia, In the high volatile fields of Southern West Virginia, and In tho Southwestern Virginia district. I.lttle change was rexrted from the Middle West. Production In Ohio remains nt less than half of capacity In that stute and In Western Pennsvanla, the Irwin gus fields, the West Virginia Vir-ginia Panhandle, nnd In the Fairmont Fair-mont and Junlor-Phllllpl districts of West Virginia conditions chunged for the worse During the week of February !lh produrtlon of heehlte coke In the t'ounellsvllln nnd ndjuieiit districts of Pennsylvania shared In the recovery cxpirlenied by the bituminous Indus-trj Indus-trj lis u whole Hlxty-lwii of the principal operators rvporlid a production pro-duction of 320,040 net Ions or 1,3.3 per cent of their mpiK lly as ruled b the nillriiuiU Although the Improvement Improve-ment was utfevted by n reduction lit losses dun In link of Hike mrs, short- i age of cars n malued the dominant . fiu tor limiting produillou leases attributed to that line amounted to 34 4 per runt of the rtittd lapuclt), those due to shut til km of jiird labor, to 7.S per tent. The same operators shlppid lRO.JHu tons of mt, 3t.7 xr lent of their torn. blncd ruling us coul produeers iicni'cnoN' of i'itiu, iihi:i n MAMIP.U-TlHtlUtH PiaNMU The national fuel administration Is carrliiK on u series of louferemvs covering all Industries whlih use l.irgi iiuantltles of fuel with u view to learning the requirements of emli Hue during 1(1. The Indiulrlex themselviHi are plalng u lending mrt III these illm uhIiiiim. Tin aim of the fuel udmlnlstrutlou Is to arrive at u penentuge of prodiittlnu whlih, under un-der the ilriiiinstames, will be satin-fuilory satin-fuilory to the muuufurturers and their vvorkmin, but whlih will not represent it consumption of fuel for tin uinnufiivture of supplies not I muled during the current tr The urdur which litis been Issued limiting the ue of fuel for the production pro-duction of Window Kins to 60 per i cut of the unioiint munufuuturrd In 1917 Is the result of one of these ion-ftrtmex. ion-ftrtmex. A sorve) of the fluid Indl-rated Indl-rated that while not mnro than five million boxes of window glass would be used In lttlH, competitive conditions condi-tions wire likely to risult In un over-manufacture over-manufacture of ut least two million Imixih It U through this sitem of limitation, togethir with Inrgu mon-om mon-om In the methods of using fuel, that the fuel udmlnlstrutlon nxpeits to supplement the produrtlon of coul this ear, It Is ulsn hoped, us the railroads strengthen their futilities, thut It will he possible to mine and transport u lurger iiuuntlty of coal thin eur than last, but It is through these methods of reducing consumption thut u rep. Iltlon of this ) ear's shortage. I expected ex-pected to be pleV Milled DOMIS-lIC (OAli hlIPPI,V IS soon to in: itiHuruvinn WAKIIINOTON, D V. Murrli 2 Tin fuel administration Is now eon-sldirlug eon-sldirlug plmlnk an urbitrur) limit on the amount of coal that may be dr. Ilvtred to domestic- consumer. Iteg-ulatlons Iteg-ulatlons governing the retail distribution distri-bution for the Jeor iMgliiiilug April 1. I HI 8, are now being worked out In order to avert u recurrence of the shortage of the pust winter, the administration ad-ministration proposes to put Into ef-' ef-' il diflilttt) pluti for the eiUllu!ile ilUtilbutlou to domsstli ennsumers throughout tho lountr) In so far us possible, tho regulations will be madu flexible to enable, thu local the local flexible to thureby nimble thu loonl general ruler to thi Ir own conditions. Proposal has been made to base the limitation upon thu umount of coal delivered during lh coal year of 1917 lit uncurtaining tho requirements of thu Individual account will be taken on the amount alrrud) In hand The administrators may go so fur as to require re-quire tho consumers to submit an at- tested statoment setting forth the amount am-ount of coal they have on hand, what has been ordered from deatcrsthe total to-tal amount Used last winter and tho amount required for tho coming season. sea-son. NKW C'ONCintN CJOINO IN AT MM:N IN dllANM COUNTY Itecently a now coal company was perfected In Salt Lake City which will, according to reliable Information, Informa-tion, proceed to open up large coat vein controlled by tho company In Thompsons Canyon. The coal claims are situated near the property of the American Fuel company at Neslen, nnd It I understood that the coal Is of the same good quality a that being mined by that company, Tho principal owner of tho new coal company have been connected with tho American Fuel company for soveral year and are entirely familiar with tho condition In this section of the country and with tho coal business busi-ness particularly, nnd It Is understood that they have nufflclcnl capital to carry out the plans formulated for the development of their property. The new company I being promoted promot-ed by It T Neslen, J N. Ilnyward, William Dtrki and It. M, Henderson Henderson until recently wo superintendent super-intendent of the American Fuel mines nt Neslen and Darko wn secretary of that company It Is reported that n retail cosljurd ha been built nt Salt lnko City nnd similar ynrds are to titabllshcd In other cities of tho state. Spur track will be laid from a point near the JcV nclo ranch up tho canyon to the coal property, where Inrge chute will bo built for handling the coat Darke came down from Salt L-ikn City last week nnd It I understood under-stood nt Thompson that ho made nil necessary arrangement to start work In tho very near future. nihcovini hpm:ndii coad DKPOSlT tiVAll COUUT IIOUSH What gives promise of developing Into a paving proposition was tha discovery dis-covery recently of deposit of coat nt Court House station, any Monti's Time of Friday last. The locator are John J. Itoberson, CupL S. M. Nollson nnd Chnrlrs J. Ilengtien, guards at tho prison camp, nnd they have every confidence that n little development de-velopment work will uncover a big body of good quality coal. The coal ha been tried nut nnd while that nn the surface Is of rather poor qualll). It Is believed thnt u little depth will maku possible the production of a large nmount of good coal for local consumption The locntnrs have given John K llrovvn a lontrntl by which he. will drive a tunnel on the clu it hundred nnd fifty fei t In li ngth during dur-ing tin present yinr He will tin given a line-fourth Interest In the proper!) as t onxlili ration for his work. COI.OItAIIO MIMIUH ASK FOIt DHI'HIIIIHIt 'l,SSII'lt'ATION Deferred i lasslflvntlou for cimI mlmrs Is asked In u lommtiultiitlou forwarded to the fedintl fuel nilmlii-Istrullou nilmlii-Istrullou to the vvur department by the Colorado fuel lommlsslou. The Lommliwiou dei lures thut prodintlon for litis will be Iim than that of 1917 unless provision Is made to kiep skilled labor III the mines The 1917 production was 12.600,000 tons of coul mid the estimated output for 19IH is flftieii million tons. The commission declares that If the miners min-ers now linteil In enrl) classes under the seleclv draft law uro called Into servile, I9IX produillou would be ulMiut 1 1. tOO, 000 tuns. Many of the miners lire classified us unskilled lu-Imr lu-Imr under the draft, the commission mivh. eoiiti ndlng thi J should be llnted ns skilled necfsir) Industrial labor, a ilefimd i lus. ALXhlvA COM, MINIth AUK IIKI.PI.NO 'IIIK I'lJIII, Ht'l'I'I.V HKATTI.K, Wash, Munh I. Two AUisku (oal mines will he adding to the nation's fuel suppl this jeur The minus, now being developed by tho Kovirumeiit In the Mutauusku district. It Is ixpicted this car will not only produu toul sufficient for use of the government railroad, but will becomo shippers to other section nt Alaska ami even to the Mates, It is expect) d also that one or tun mines will be openud In the Chlika-loon Chlika-loon district The Moose Crettk mine, In the same district, Is producing fifty tons a da) unci furlhir development work Is under way b the government licncrul Winning (Slvcn, WAHHINOTON, D. ". March 2 A gemrul wurnlng was Issued by the fuel ndmlulatrutlun tonight to coul prod liters that whir they uro selling the Ir output under contractu made prior to the fixing of coal prlee by President Wilson they will not be permitted per-mitted to churge tho fort) -five cents additional given to operators to meet Increased wugw costs. Thu coutrucl price, whether higher or lower than the government fixed price, must stuud, thu fuel udmlnlstrutlou udmlnlstru-tlou declured, except where coutruets spM iriwtll) mudit provislun for any changes lu price to inert wage nil-v nil-v times Mint- Is Atttinilomil. I.INC()1N. Ills. Marh 4 With a fire ruglng In thu depths of the Lincoln Lin-coln Coul company mine lure for more th'tn five months, the owner have lHen compelled to abandon It, It has been son led and reseated time Mild ukhIii without avail The fire started last Oi tuber The mine Is one of tin largest lu the Uigati illstrlil having tho Coal hopplj, WASHINGTON. D C March 3 Combination of ulectrb gsnsrutlug s stems and elimination of hundreds of iiolated and uneconomical plant la under consideration l the fuel ud-ministration ud-ministration as a means of saving fuel supplies. Itepreseututlves of the fuel udmluUtrution left hern tonight for New York to attend hearing before be-fore tin public scrvlte commission there at which the subject will he taken up uh affecting New York City Millions of tons of coal would be saved fuel iidmlnlstrutlon officials (Continued on page eight.) OUTPUT NOW BACK II TO NORMAL, IT l ISjjAID HjH H (Continued from page six ) tfiiaK say, b) tiiiitrnlliHlliin Thi plan, too, VirHSI lr """ltd, tiny Kit), would bo far ffiWuH toward! rcllov lug tirmlniil ixingcstlon fttlH uihI lightening the loads carried b kfilJuW '"" nnJ lmrBo "nr,t I&flU AltOUMI Till: COWi CAMI'm & i'i.iihonai) and oTiintu isi: Iem I W'rttll nowpiupes to have th (i rull JjEu road to thatwniy finished mid ship- XnvLfl mctilK of mini frcliJK out within it nut- 1MB H ita fir three week. H Utah Fuel compun) hu hud four UH or flvw sales ugenl un tin road fur n HQHE mouth or morn soliciting urdir for 'flUIM '""' Ditto several othir jBnHl Superintendent Cumpbell wa down jPfKll rrom th Mlllburn property Monda) Msf I '"' I,n "ll11 "" n llff forcc """ n 1 plocd on bulldlnir the wagon roud tit "ljv I Kuillworth, from that mine There I k3 I yet much work In fore It inmpletlon 'jB W. j hi wood wu In I'rlie Sunday KV fronl Kenllworth III properl) I WH working liut three da) it wtek The ) IB miner there ure uveraglng hnwivcr jH from ten to twelve dnllur it da) - H Home of tin in uru making in on III Knill Ontlund vmih down Tndu) MJB from Utah Minn to nttrnd u nicttliiif 1 l Bl .if the board of touiit) ommltNilnnr VD of tilth ho I a momlirr That prop- H rt la nhout the mil) one In tin toiin-I toiin-I ! ly working full tlnio now He hn It m H under Iiiimi with an output or iiround Wm n four hundred ton it duy I jIH Ihun-uw of 10,000 ton nx torn B.j jH liarud with the nrecedlnir week murkrd l?)BJ the total liltumhuiu output ilurlntc rlVl h w"( k ,ll,'11 1'eliruury Sid AVIille SLwJ ,l'1" deelluu In hroiw output umuunted I'liBI to 4 S ir Ltnt, It I difficult to In-J In-J IH tirprtt the tatu of production per DLtfME MorkliiK da) heiautx of the unequal Hj?fl olirunic of Trlday, Fihruary 2:d, BJUHj iih a hollda), BjWJ Kaitnm adUi nnnoume that the I United HUiteti Smeltluir. Iti fining and SVIH Mining company, which heretofore CSl ha I'OPU a holding rnnipnny ml), ab ffiuj vorlied on Docembtr Slut Hevurul of jMfn It opt rating gubiddlurlirt The ub- MJM mdlarle taken over and imood with Bn9j tho parent company wert tho United Jl Htatea HmnltlnK compun), tho Nicdle KltH Mining and Smelting compuny, tho HIM Mammoth Copper Mining compan, BflVniULwr7Su.rjf"'f' ntA r fflfcZ the Gold Itond Mine roininn, the CentennlitMiurikit Mining rompitny Innd the 1'tnh inmimii) The torpor-litlon torpor-litlon uImi own the I'nlti d Htatea I'llrl tompnn) iinil the Utah rultwu) Output of h) product coke the conn-tr conn-tr over during th week of Kebrunry Z3d ahourd n marked lniiroement mir the prtiedlng wtek Tint ratio of lonli(,e prodiiied to muxlmum en-purlt) en-purlt) roue from 73 6 per rent during the wnk of l'rliruiir) Kth to 77 0 Pr cent The Improvi inenl wit effected ef-fected b) n riluctlon In lomon duo to iHjnl Mhortnge lintia nttrlbuted to Unit iaue dnreaied from II to 18 per c nl A K. nilmon, Kent nil Nuperlnteu dent of Hprlug CiiiDon Coal compun), mum In I'rlio Wdneda, He a) the n-lnr at that camp ar luik) to be Kitting In three iU)m u week. AlHiut the flrat of April It I expected output at nil propcrtli of thu coun-t) coun-t) will be matirlally lncreaed In-iuum In-iuum of the fui't that utorlug nf nml li big loimumera will noon utter that date Mart. All thu augnr companlea of t'tuli mid Idaho have agntd to tcin enough fur conminiptlon for the i umlng )rur htHsrNTIMJ tlMNK AUK HIIOUN IN MINK HIII'OHTh Iti port from to Carbon coal mine to the tate board of cqunllia-tion cqunllia-tion Indloatii HubHtantlal gnlna In mt prorted. Kprlng l'mion Coat om pan) owned b) the Knight IntoreiiU, report net primed of 1127,338 19 on :0S 373 ton of tool mined Thl I ilgitlliat lint proieidi reported last ear or SOH.K70 75 on SSK.SSS ton or uml mlmd The Inureuno In nut pro-ii'iiln pro-ii'iiln therefore wa nt a iiiilih more 'nipld rate thun the Increase In ton-nnke ton-nnke In thi the mine. The flute ibimrd nf uiuiillJiitlon lat )tmr, how-leer, how-leer, Inireawd the nportid nit line Iceed to 175 UK It ha not )tt taken m lion with ngurd to thl )iur' re-port re-port The Curbou I'm I lompan), of w tilth 1 1 Ituln I prcaldent, report net proceed or $30,978 28 on a production produc-tion of 1(8 644 ton. Iut )er It tonnage wna i,len n only 60 000, but It net proceed were udmlttid a 123 64:11 nml thl figure waa raUed b) the utiito board of equnllxutlon to $39 916 (J roe revenue, to tho Carbon Car-bon Km I compuny for the year Jut ended I given u $363.130 86. to the I Spring Can) on It wa 1686 177 86, the olio compun) nvernglng around IS 20 and tho other $2 40 n ton for their re-upeitlvo re-upeitlvo product |