. Railway mechanical engineer . st problems is toget the higher railroad authorities to thoroughly understand *From the 1921 report of the standing committee on storage coal of theinternational Railway Fnel Association the importance of the storage of coal and that they may ap-preciate the necessity for careful and systematic attempts to store coal have always proven unsatis-factory both to the consumer and to the producer and thatstorage of coal may be successful it must be conducted regu-larly and in a methodical manner and by the fullest COoperation of producers, carriers
. Railway mechanical engineer . st problems is toget the higher railroad authorities to thoroughly understand *From the 1921 report of the standing committee on storage coal of theinternational Railway Fnel Association the importance of the storage of coal and that they may ap-preciate the necessity for careful and systematic attempts to store coal have always proven unsatis-factory both to the consumer and to the producer and thatstorage of coal may be successful it must be conducted regu-larly and in a methodical manner and by the fullest COoperation of producers, carriers and consumer^ The storageproposition must be tied up with production to such an extentthat it will co-ordinate properly, and when large stocks ofcoal have been stored the production and movement will haveto be regulated in such a way that the storage coal can beused most advantageously and not become -imply a highpriced inventory article. The experience of the past threeor four vears shows conclusively that storage of coal must. Storage Plant in Connection With RandS Portable Coaling Stationand Cinder Plant be more carefully considered and that only by such carefulconsideration can it become tin- stabilizing influence that itshould. If a practicable plan of storage at large distributing cen-ters had been operating during 1919 it is probable that theNovember strike of that year would not have produced thecondition of panic that followed during the spring and sum-mer of 1920. The report is signed by H. H. Stock (University of Illi-nois), chairman; A. H. Davies, C. G. Hall (Walter Bledsoe& Co.); J. B. Hutchison (Texas Steel Co.); B. P. Phillippe(Penn System); R. E. Rightmire (Consolidation Coal Co.);A. P. Wells (Central of Georgia); H. Woods (Colorado &Southern); S. I. Yerkes (Grider Coal Sales Agency).
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