. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 36 The Florists'Review Dbcbiibbb 14, 1816. JliS^«Si]t^l^l^liifJt^l^l^l>Si!l^tV!A]tX^^ THE FUEL SITUATION ^'«yffl?y^lgT^lf^T^I>y^tl^7Ttl^T^-^I^A'tl^A'tl>7^1^lfA-^lfO^^ TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE. Next Year's Contracts. Tlie coal trade considers it highly significant that the Cambria Steel Co. has signed a contract to run one year from January 1, 1917, calling for 30,000 tons of coal per month at $ per ton at the mines for mine-run coal. This compares with a price of $ paid by the same concern for a smaller tonnage of the same grade of
. Florists' review [microform]. Floriculture. 36 The Florists'Review Dbcbiibbb 14, 1816. JliS^«Si]t^l^l^liifJt^l^l^l>Si!l^tV!A]tX^^ THE FUEL SITUATION ^'«yffl?y^lgT^lf^T^I>y^tl^7Ttl^T^-^I^A'tl^A'tl>7^1^lfA-^lfO^^ TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE. Next Year's Contracts. Tlie coal trade considers it highly significant that the Cambria Steel Co. has signed a contract to run one year from January 1, 1917, calling for 30,000 tons of coal per month at $ per ton at the mines for mine-run coal. This compares with a price of $ paid by the same concern for a smaller tonnage of the same grade of coal for a year from January 1, 1916. Within two weeks, contracts are said to have been signed by users in a va- riety of trades calling for the delivery, during 1917, of more than 2,000,000 tons of coal at a price better than $1 a ton above the contract figure of 1916. Today's Market. "The situation has not changed," says- the Black Diamond, the coal trade's paper, "but people think it has and prices are a trifle ; The mild weather up to December 9 has been a large factor in the feeling of ease in the coal market, as it made the consumption of fuel less than nor- mal for the season, but winter came almost at the same moment as did an- nouncement of embargoes on the prin- cipal railroads east of Chicago, with the result that demands promptly in- creased. The indications lead to the belief that the country is in the midst of the worst car situation it has ever seen. Reports indicate a slight easing of cars in the high volatile district of West Virginia and at the mines of eastern Kentucky. However, the cars in the smokeless district, in the anthra- cite field, in western Pennsylvania, in Ohio, in Indiana and Illinois are shorter than they were two weeks ago, when the market was at the climax of its rise. While prices eased off a little last week the coal trade felt that it was only a temporary softening in keeping with the weather and $4 to $ wa
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