Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — THREE TONS FOR BASE BURNERS [ARTICLE]

THREE TONS FOR BASE BURNERS

Hammond Times: Lake county’s fuel administrator was advised yesterday in a bulletin issued by Evans Wollen, fuel administrator for Indiana, to limit retail anthracite sales to three tons for base burners only. He also said that a few thousand tons of anthracite had been procured in addition to the state’s allotment, to be distributed to communities not listed in the fifty-four cities and towns selected to receive a portion of the curtailed anthracite allowance. It recently was announced that the state’s portion of hard coal would be 85,000 tons. The additional amount “squeezed out” will be 10,000 or 15,000 tons. According to the bulletin, anthracite when sold in three-ton lots for base burners will go farther in the prevention of hardships' than when sold for furnaces, and it may be wise for fuel administrators to give dealers such orders as will assure preference fox base burner trade.