Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hooeierdon* Reported by Wire. NEW PRICES ON STATE COAL Little Change in Mine Coats Made by Order of the Federal Fuel Administration—State Head Gets the Figures. Indianapolis, May 3. — Mine price® for Indiana coal were fixed in an order received by the state fuel administration from H. A. Garfield, federal fuel ' administrator. The prices as fixed in the order, range from $1.70 a ton for ' screenings to $2.20 a ton for prepared • sizes in Indiana fields outside the Bra- ! zil block field. The prices for the coal from this field will be $1.70 for screenings, $2.95 for minerun coal and $&25 ' for prepared sizes. Mine run coal from I other Indiana fields will cost $2 a ton. To these prices, the order provides, shall be added the sum of 45 cents a ton, under the terms of the order issued by President Wilson last October i relative to wage increases. The order I makes little change in the prices that have been charged for coal at the Indiana mines. The order estabUribes a new classification for the Brasil field, where formerly only two grades. Bine run and screenings were recognized. The highest price previously charged I for any coal in the Brazil field was $3.40, so the new order provides an increase of 80 cents a ton for the best grade of coal from this district Formerly the price charged at the mtn no for Indiana mine ran coal, other than that in the Brazil field, was SX4O. B»e new price, as fixed In the government order, is $2.45. This 5-cent increanc for mine-run coal and the 80-cent inI crease in the maximum price for coal' from the Brazil field ere the only changes the order makes in the price list that has been effective.