Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1918 — NORTHERN PART TO GET ANTHRACITE [ARTICLE]

NORTHERN PART TO GET ANTHRACITE

Officials of the state fuel administration have received no word from Washington regarding the distribution of the state’s allotment of anthracite coal, but the oponion is expressed in the state administration office that the distribution plan as announced at Washington would result in communities distant from the Indiana coal mines receiving preference in the disposing of anthracite. Cities in the northern part of Indiana probably will be supplied with greater quantites of anthracite than cities of the same size nearer the coal mines in the southern part of the state, according to the state administration’s interpretation. The cities near the coal mines have been able to obtai.i bituminous coal at a cost much less than distant cities because of the difference in freight rates. Many persons in the northern part of the state have equipped their homes • and business places for the use of anthracite. It would be imposing a greater hardship, it is believed, to require these persons to change heating devices for the use of soft coal than it would impose on residents of southern Indiana cities and towns to confine themselves almost exclusively the use of soft coal.