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Show ANNUAL PRODUCTION IS1 ESTIMATED BY THE EXPERTS I THIS YEAR WILL P.EAOH FIVE 1 HUNDRED MILLIONS Nine Per Cent Falling Off, However With the Bituminous Producers the Country Over So Far the Present I Year Groat Lack of Demand Is I Noted Throughout Western Fields Cnrteapomlcni The "un ! WASIIINdTON. I). C. .lum 'I Analywa of working condition tin I country over an rejtorled hy the omr atom of three Ikonannd four hundred) and mxt) three bitnminona enal iflirici' witk a total production or fi.T'H.l'JI net lima and present caiaieity id ', i IM7.I7N net Ion dnnng tne week end ed May '.Mlh, ahowa a alight impnivc . ment in market condition, the Iom ol running lime on account of no market having, decreased from Mil. I for the week ended May 17th to '.Vt 7 er ccnl for the week ended Mav 21th Al t bough the demand for eonl from none of the field i atmng mough to rail for full time oienitioii, the New Itiver and Winding (lulf and the I'o-ealmnlaa I'o-ealmnlaa dilncl in Wet Virginiii and the tlnard and Harlan field in Knlrrn Kentucky nHirt hea of running lime averaging lea than one lay in I lie week emlcd May 21th h of time heeaue of no market in Aallwma and iu the high olatile . field of Southern Weat Virginia mid the Somerset, I'd., district average IS (er cent or slight I v more than om day nT week A n reault of the Im-k of demand for eoal in the West and Middle West, mine m Illinois, Indi huh. Western Kentucky ami in the field wet of the .Mlmtlipl Were on'rHled on an average ol hut three day during the week ciidel May -Ith Bituminous Figures. I'rtHliietion of bitumiiHiUH roal which gainiHl steadily for four week and reached a maximum cinco Apnl 1st of nearly H.IHMI.m) iu (ho week ended Mny lUth, declined in tlm lust wick of Mny to 7,11.1(1,0011 tons, n de-ereM de-ereM of tl per cent. Tlm production III the last week ol Mny, HMD, WM more than two nml one-half million Ion or ifi mt cent hehiw Hint of the eornxpouililig week of Inst enr. The productioii of bituminous eoal in the fin five month or HUH l 17710, (HHI ton. The production Hi the corn's-jNiuding corn's-jNiuding nod of HUH wa ".II.IKri,-IMHI ".II.IKri,-IMHI ton, which exceed the production for tin Name period of this venr by A7,(MKI,(MMI ton or "il er cent. In the aix year 11113 to HUM the percentage of annual otilHit of hi In mi ih him eoal III the lirst five moiitha of the ealen-ihtr ealen-ihtr year averageil HI kt cent, the hiweat being .It! Mr rent in llMfi nml the highest Itcing II ixr rent in Hilt, in 11110 and ih 1017. If the pradurtion ot the rirst five month in ltlltl rep-renent rep-renent III n-r eenl of what will Ih mitiHl this year, the production for 11MU ia thu indicated to he but III),-IMNI.IHN) III),-IMNI.IHN) ton. If, aa in 1UI5 tko out-hiI out-hiI in Ike first five month i .'HI iier e,-nt ir the loini ror the year, an out put of Mtn.lHHl.tHNl ton I indicated for the calendar year HUH. These fet appear to indiatt thai the production pro-duction or iHtumiiHHi eoal I hi ynr cannot he greater tknii oMI,HHI,IHn.I net ton. Wkt'ther tin iunntity added to the urdu aliek on baud at the first of the year, estimated around .tn.IHNl.lHNl l.ms. will he sufficient for ike hcvnU ol the country deeml iism whether general indu(nal activity recover suflicuiitl)' to approvimaielv wpial that of the latter part of HMO and the early part ol IIU7 Anthracite Inoreum. I'rtHluctHHi of l'ennylvania anthracite anth-racite in the week ended May lUl i eatimated at lNS.INNI net Ion compared com-pared with l,tVt,iNNl net ton tor the week ended May 'J Ith and i,(aln,iMMI Ions tor tke laat week in Ma, 10 IS. FrHH Ike record tor tke fitNt live month of HUH an output of ppn.xi. watelv So.iaai.lHNI net t.m t indudtd for HUH, a deerta eoimriHl witk 1H1S of 0 K-r evHl. .nd a d-crciuH eowmred with HHI, lb lowest out-Hit out-Hit reeordeti iu the wt m yevr, of more than 8 ier rent. TV rate of pro-duct pro-duct ion of auibrwcile in the first nine weeka ih the pfesstnt eoal year low bein aisproximalely l.fllW.iNHJ net ton compared with l.tHD.tHHI net ton tor the same Mnod of laat year and 1,-lkHl.iHNi 1,-lkHl.iHNi ton tor the calendar y, ir 1H1S. The rale of production it anlh-raeite anlh-raeite ha known a -latidenr) to iii-erease iii-erease slightly and nut he incrcad even more if domestic consumers will enter tke market lo even a greater x-tent x-tent for their uply ol houstlmitl fuel for next winter. Production ot Imefafve coke in il.e I'niUvd Slatea in tkt week end. .1 l iv - ' - 'M,(M mi i... eumiHtred with 'JSd.blO net tons in the (week elided May '-'Uh, and .V.' .iM net ion in the week ended June I, lt)ls For the calendar )er to dme the product ion i eatiuMted at Ml.-oiai Ml.-oiai ton oiuHtred with 1J,M,(HM) on tor tilt i irr. tiding -rio( ..f 1.1-1 Vuir hxiepluif; ,. irgiiia n.l biclnve toke distnC khow im-oiMvvunui im-oiMvvunui iu prmluelion III the l.ut week o( Mav, but ii all duirirt the output loi tlie week and tor the year lo date is in neb below that of the our-rescinding our-rescinding period of laat year. |