Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1917 — MAKES PRICE ON ANTHRACITE [ARTICLE]

MAKES PRICE ON ANTHRACITE

GOVERNMENT HAS SLIGHTLY RAISED PRICE OF HARD COAL AT MINES. In fixing the price of anthracite coal it seems that the government has allowed the miners a price in. excess of that they art now receiving. Under the price fixed by President Wilson the retail dealer would beallowed to receive about $9.80. This is figured on a Chicago basis. Dealers iiave been selling hard, coal at $8.75 and $9.00. The absolutely uniformity of prices fixed by the anthracite miners has always indicated that the industry was a well organized trust. Price circulars sent out the first of each month always agreed in one thing and that was price. It has been impossible for years for dealers to contract hard coal, but always had to take the price at the time the coal was shipped. It is possible that the prices fixed by the government will make it necessary for the local dealers here to add 25 cents to the prices they are now receiving for hard coal. The hard coal prices go into effect September 1 and bituminous prices fixed by the president are now effective. The following is the president’s order in reference to anthracite coal. The following regulations shall apply to the intrastate, interstate and foreign commerce of the United States, and the prices and margins referred to herein shall be in force pending further investigation or determination thereof by the president. 'l. A coal jobber is defined as a person (or other agency) who purchases and resells coal to coal dealers, or to consumers, without physically handling it on, over, or through his own behicle, dock, trestle or yard. 2. For the buying or selling of bituminous coal, a jobber shall not add to his purchase price a gross margin in excess of 15 cents per ton of 2,000 pounds; nor shall the combined gross margins of any number of jobbers who buy and sell a given shipment or shipments of bituminous coal exceed 15 cents per ton of 2,000 pounds. 3. For buying and selling anthracite coal, a jobber shall not add to his purchase price a gross margin in excess of 20 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds when delivery of such coal is to be effected at or east of Buffalo. For buying and selling anthracite coal for delivery west of Buffalo, a jobber shall not add to his purchase price a gross margin in excess of 30 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds. The combined gross margins of any number of jobbers who* buy and sell a given shipment, or shipments, of anthracite coal for delivery at, or east of Buffalo, shall not exceed 20 cents per ton of 2.240 pounds ;nor shall such combined margins exceed

30 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds for the delivery of anthracite coal west of Buffalo. Provided, that a jobbers’ gross margin realized on a given shipment or shipments of anthracite may be increased by not more than 5 cents per ton of 2,240 pounds when the jobber incurs the expense of rescreening it at Atlantic or lake porta for trans-shipment by water. 4. - Effective Sept. 1, 1917, the maximum prices per ton of 2,240 pounds, free on board cars at the mines, for the grades and sizes of anthracite coal hereinafter specified shall not exceed the prices indicated in paragraph 5 when such coal* is produced and sold by the Pennsylvania & Reading Coal & Iron Company, Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Co., Hudson Coal Co., Delaware & Hudson Co., Scranton Coal Co., Lehigh Valley Coal Co., Coxe Bros. & Co., PennHillside Coal & Iron Co., Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway Co., Delaware, Lackawanna &*■ Western Coal Co., Susquehanna Coal Co., Sus2uehanna Colliers Co., Little Coal 10. or the M. A. Hanna Coal Co. The grades and sizes for which the maximum prices are specified are as follows: r , White Red Lykens Ash Ash Valley Broken .... $4.55 $4.75 ' $5.00 Egg 4.45 4.65 4.90 Stove 4.70 4.90 5.30 Chestnut .... 4.80 4.90 5.30 Pea 4.00 4.10 4.35 6. Producers of anthracite coal who are not specified in paragraph four shall not sell the various grades or sizes of anthracite coal at prices that exceed by more than 75 cents Kr ton of 2,240 pounds, free on ard cars at the mines, the prices* enumerated in paragraph five. Provided, that any producers of anthracite coal who incur the expense of rescreening it at Atlantic or lake porta, for shipment by water, may increase the price therefor by not more than 5 cents per ton of 2,240 ?. Producers of anthracite coal specified in paragraph four of these regulations shall not sell anthracite coal to producers of anthracite coal not specified in paragraph four. 8. Dealers and selling agents shall not sell coai. produced by the producers included in paragraph four on the -basis of the prices fixed at the mine for coal produced by producers