THE COAL SHORTAGE
PRICES RISING FAST.
NEW YORK, 26th July, xlie industry has been thrown into a condition of uncertainty by the coal situation. The Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered a shipment of coal for essential industries, but it is not known if this applies to steel manufacturers, who are now short of coal and coke. Coke has risen in price five dollars a( ton, and dealers in coal of every kind are raising prices by from fifty cents to five dollarß a ton. Householders foresee a trying time this winter.
WASHINGTON, 26th July. Mr. Enney, president of the Come, Mann, and George Corporation, representing the largest collieries in the United Kingdom, states that orders have already been placed for more than 700,000 tons of British coal, for delivery in the United States by the middle of September. Orders are now slackening because prices are soaring, and owing to the inability of operators to) guarantee delivery. *■
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1922, Page 7
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156THE COAL SHORTAGE Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1922, Page 7
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