Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 44, Number 158, 7 April 1919 — Page 12

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1919. afciiiiililllHliiw

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;Buy Your Goal Early! WE ARE PREPARED TO FURNISH YOU WITH GOOD COAL AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES

: For Your Furnace " Pocahontas Lump $8.00 Pocahontas Egg $8.00 Pocahontas Mine Run ............. $7.50 Kentucky or West Virginia Mine Run . . $7.00 Anthracite Egg $11.75 For Your Baseburner Anthracite Nut or No. 4 $12.00 Nut Coke $11.00

For Your Cook Stove Dixie Diamond (King of Kentucky Coals) $7.50 Borderland Washed Egg or Nut. ... . .$7.50 For Your Heating Stove Borderland Block $7.50 Carbon Splint $7.50 Hocking Valley Lump $7.00 Wizard "Cream of Indiana" l ... . ... . .$6.25

For Your Underfeed Furnace Winifrede Washed Pea . . $7.00

These prices are for the month of April only. Phone your order today or call at our office. We will be pleased to show you our coals and help you solve your heating problems. Our service is the best.

"NO LONG WAITS NO SHORT WEIGHTS

THE

Mchfoth-NiewoehncrCo,

PHONE 2194

CORNER SECOND AND NORTH A STS.

We have been in the coal business in Richmond for over 32 years, during which time we have enjoyed an ever increasing patronage due to the quality of our coal, the exceptional high grade service rendered and a confidence placed in us by the public. This confidence has been keenly appreciated and we have always tried to merit it.

In 1918 we again urged early buying and had this winter been a severe one our advice would have again proved correct, as it would have been impossible at many times during the winter to secure enough coal to have replenished the empty bins.

From time to time we have felt it our duty to advise our patrons about the purchase of coaL In 1917 we advised the early purchase of the winter supply and events of that winter proved the correctness of our advice.

Now, an entirely different situation confronts us. Another different cause. As we see the conditions, a shortage is inevitable if you delay ordering your coal until fall, for the reason that the mines are not producing because they have no place to store any more coal than is at present accumulated. Unless this condition is changed by the public ordering coal NOW in sufficient quantities to reduce congestion at the mines and permit the mining of more coal, it will be impossible to obtain enough coal next winter when transportation facilities will be greatly handicapped. We have carefully analyzed the present situation and in justice and as a means of protection to our patrons we advise and urge that you . .. . Order Your Coal Now s Mackman-EOeliffoth

Company

Main Office No. 10th and F 2 Yards

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PHONE 2015-2016

INTEREST TO EEEY COAL USE!

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Live News for You Mr. Coal Buyer Read It Again! Estimate Next Year's Needs and Order Now

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EARLY GOAL BUYING

- IS AGAIN URGED

In an Inquiry conducted by newspa

pers, following the Fuel Administra

tion's warning ol March 20th, much light was cast upon the coal situation. The Fuel Administration again urges early buying ol coal in Its announcement: "If the Winter just ended had been a Bevere one, the large stocks which the industries and domestic consumers had on hand last fall, would now

be entirely used up, assuming that production had continued unchanged.

Should next Winter be mucn more

severe than the one just past, a state of shortage Is likely to resmlt, unless coal is mined and transported during the spring and summer."

Inquiry developed the fact that mine

production of coal is running 50 percent below full-time output, because

there is such a light demand. Confirm Statement. Loor' -oal men emphatically confirms, statements of the Fuel Adminisi. a. Their views are prac- j

tically inimous. They say that there must be demand on the part of the consumer .or the coal will not be J

produced This Is so because tne anthracite producers have storage facilities for only 10 percent of their year's output and the dealers of the country can store about another 10 percent. The storage space for soft coal is practically all in the consumer's bins. rt is evident that the consumers must rder and receive the coal, therefore, r It will not be produced. And even f it could be produced in the six fall md winter months, the railroads would be unable to handle this concentrated over-production. No Information as to price could be obtained beyond the one that they were uncertain. Some of the anthracite opera

tors have already announced no reduction but an increase of ten cents each month beginning May 1st, up to and

including September. If this plan should be followed by all the companies, early buyers will not only be sure

of their coal, but save money.

The dealers emphasize the necessity

for orders, and frankly confess they

do not know what prices will be, although not one could be found who would say he looked for reductions.

Several dealers were so impressed with the seriousness of the outlook that they said they intend to announce

through the press Just what they know

about conditions so that the consumer

may at least be fully informed on the subject

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The coal production at the present time is perhaps 60 percent of normal production. We have had a warm winter, consumption has been comparatively light. On April 1 st, however, we entered upon a new year in coal matters. If the normal quantity of coal is to be produced during the next twelve months, it is plain that during the

spring and summer when conditions of mining are best and conditions of transportation least liable to interference and CONDITIONS OF RETAIL DELIVERY MOST ECONOMICAL, at least 50 percent of a year's tonnage should be mined and distributed. The patriotic citizen will do his part during these Re

construction days as willingly as he did during war times and will order his coal and receive it to the best of his ability during the next six months. By so doing he will make it possible for the merchant to give him his best service at a MINIMUM COST. This means you and concerns your family.

U. S. Fuel Administration Says BUY COAL NOW

Profit by Past Experience Two years ago hundreds of Richmond people had to buy coal by the bushel because they refused to heed dealers advice, to buy early. Conditions existing now as known by dealers make it very advisable for the public to BUY COAL NOW for next winter if they wish to avoid inconvenience later. We now have ready to deliver IPocahontas Lump And Other High Grade Coals

mllerdick

529 SO. 5TH STREET

PHONE 1235

For Immediate Delivery LIMITED QUANTITIES OF ALL STANB ARB COAL The kind you wanted all last winter and couldn't get. Lots of heat and clean burning coal. Better Order Yomrs Now to insure plenty of coal next winter, when you'll want it badly. We can take care of all of our customers if they will place orders now, but if they all hold off it will be impossible. There is no camouflage in the forecasted shortage. Facts are facts and you can't change them and if a tremendous amount is not moved from the mines in a short time to permit them to again start production there's going to be a serious situation confronting all of us next winter. Heed This Warning! Order Now!

TheAeehoir

fml Co.

700 SHERIDAN STREET

PHONE 3117

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