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Show rt'i:i, ADMINIhTllATION (ilVIM OUT hril.I, ANOTllCIt WAUNINO WABIIINOTON, I). C, March 25 Mora tlinu half u million tona' lin In ciial production laxl week cauavd the fuel iKlmlnlmrutlun tonight to relter-nte relter-nte wnrnlnga tontnlned In the announcement an-nouncement of IIm nine dlatrlbutlon ayatem that next wluter'a auppllea of fuel aliould bo lali In curly to keep mlnea working to rapacity. The falling fall-ing off, If continued, offclala aald, Mould mean aerlnux ahortnge In fuel next Inter to thoae hcctldim not forehanded fore-handed enough to puruhune In ml-Vance. ml-Vance. In working out u iiinn aatem for the dlntrlbutlon or conl, nllottlng n rertnln trrrllory to each producing field, no n to uvold croiwhaullng nnd other trannportatlon evlla, the normal production nnd coniumptlon of coal lme been bnluuced no evenly lliut any drop In output will mean Innumerable difficulties In obtaining fuel after cold weather aeta In, especially an wnr needa Inrreaae. The fuel udmlnUtrn-tlmi udmlnUtrn-tlmi hulda that having provided u nor mal and economical method of dUtrlbutlon, dU-trlbutlon, It cannot go further than Ita warning to canaumera to purchaae early. Accumulation of rcaervo fuel by; the administration to fill shortage next winter la not connldcreu either wlso or feasible. Criticism of price reductions by the administration have been unswered by Fuel Administrator Oarfleld In a letter to Benator Thomas, who recently re-cently unuounced Colorado mine were closing down because of low prices. Ur, Oarfleld said that the cost sheets furnished by the mines to the federal trude commission "do not warrant tho assumption that they hao closed down because of Inability to operute nt n profit " The committee commit-tee of engineers which Investigated tho matter reported that the reduction reduc-tion In summer prices to encourage storage wa made at tho roquest of tho Colorado operators' committee, nnd thnt tho senator was misinformed on relative costs as to the Trinidad nnd bltumlnoua domestic fields. |
