Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1918 — ISSUE FUEL REGULATIONS [ARTICLE]

ISSUE FUEL REGULATIONS

STATE FUEL ADMINISTRATOR DESIGNATES RETAIL COAL PRICES. UNITED STATES FUEL ADMINIS-TRATION-FEDERAL FUEL ADMINISTRATOR FOR INDIANA, 227 FEDERAL BUILDING, INDIANAPOLIS. MAXIMUM GROSS MARGIN FOR JASPER, COUNTY, IND. All retail prices and retail gross margins heretofore designated for Jasper County, Indiana are rescinded and a maximum retail gross margin of $1.70 per ton of coal or coke is designated in lieu thereof. Effective at the beginning of business April 1, 1918. Approved: EVANS WOOLLEN, Federal Fuel Administrator for Ind. J. A. BOUSLOG, ‘ Examiner Federal Trade Com. In accordance with the above order made by Evans Woollen, Federal Fuel Administrator for Indiana and J. A. Bouslog, examiner for the Federal Trade Commission, the retail dealers of this county will not be permitted to sell coal at retail for more than $1.70 per ton on a gross margin basis. In other words, $1.70 per ton may be added to the wholesale price of coal, plus freight and the war taxes added. To illustrate, the price of Indiana lump coal is $2.65 at’the mines, add to this the freight of $1.07 and a 3c war tax, makes the cost to the dealer $3.75, to this price may be added $1.70 gross margin, making a total of $5.45 per ton to the consumer. Included in the $1.70 gross margin ds 50c per ton delivery charge, binning charge, shrinkage in transportation, certain overhead expenses in handling oal, depreciation of plant and equipment and the dealers profit. Any {>urchaser who desires and does deiver his own coal to his own bins may secure the same at a reduction of 50c per ton. The delivery charge of 50c per ton does not include the extra cost of delivery where -jt is necessary to carry the coal from “the wagons to the bins. As fuel administrator for this county I urge all consumers of coal within my jurisdiction to supply themselves with coal for the coming season, as it will not only be a, convenience to yourself but a patriotic duty that each individual owes to the government at this particular crisis. If any person is without coal during the coming winter season at a time when it will be impossible for the railroads to deliver coal, do not blame the fuel administrator, but blame yourself. The federal fuel administrator has formulated a set of rules relative to the coal for the coming season which will be published for. the guidance of all concerned. B. F. FENDIG, Fuel Administrator for Jasper Co., Indiana.