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The Florists' Review 



Jdni 7, 1817. 



Set Your Boiler Right 



We make a specialty of all kinds of fire-brick work. 

 No order is too large, and the smallest order receives 

 the same careful attention. Let us call on you. 

 Estimates cheerfully furnished. 



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L, A. Budlon^ Co. 



Bassett & Washburn, 131 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. 



Fred Stlelow. Nlles Center, 111. 



A. F. Amiing Co., May wood. 111. 



W. H. AmllnfiT, Maywood, 111. 



Kroeschell Bros. Co., 444 W. Erie St„ Chicago, III. 



Emll Buettner, Park Ridge, 111. 



Peter Knowe & Son,'\%!l?V.Vhr,ri%;;t! Chi^ III. 



:''U Phone Main 3766 



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West End Trust Building. PHILADELPHIA 



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Greenhouse Heating. 



Subscribers are invited to write the 

 Editor of this Department with regard to 

 any details of greenhouse heating that 

 are not understood. But please do not 

 ask The Review to make a choice of ap- 

 paratus for you. The greenhouse heating 

 equipment advertised in this paper is, we 

 believe, the best for the trade to buy, 

 and each article the best in the special 

 field of its adaptation. 



THE HIGH COST OF COAL. 



There is one slight sign of progress 

 in the attempt to find a remedy for the 

 situation in the coal market. There is 

 evidence of an advance from general 

 principles to precise facts. Hereto- 

 fore prevailing conditions, and not any 

 definite group of persons, have been 

 blamed for the enormous prices of fuel. 

 Now there is a disposition to place the 

 chief blame on one body of people — 

 namely, the mine owners. The guilt, it 

 is said, has been traced to their door. 

 If that judgment is not entirely just, 

 a quick and loud protest undoubtedly 

 will come from the mine owners, and 

 the exact truth will finally be reached. 

 Indeed, the accused men have already 

 offered some defense, but do not seem 

 to have succeeded completely in ac- 

 quitting themselves. 



It is still conceded that the shortage 

 of labor and the inadequacy of trans- 

 portation facilities have been largely 

 responsible for the stagnation in the 

 coal business, but it is alleged that the 

 mine owners, in boosting the prices, 

 have taken unjustifiable and unscrupu- 

 lous advantage of these circumstances. 

 Francis S. Peabody, chairman of the 

 national commission on the control of 

 fuel, is continuing his investigations 

 energetically. C. M. Moderwell, a re- 

 tired coal operator who represents Il- 

 linois and Indiana in the same com- 

 mission, seems to be ably and con- 

 scientiously doing his part. So there 

 is a ray of light in the darkness. 



An expert statistician, said to be 

 favorable to the mine owners, has pre- 



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sented this statement of the increase 

 in the cost of mining: Increased cost 

 of labor, due to advance in wages, 50 

 cents per ton; increase in cost of all 

 mining materials, 10 cents per ton; 

 increase in cost of securing and housing 

 miners, 5 cent| per ton; total increase 

 in production cost, 65 cents per ton. 



It should be pointed out that the in- 

 creased cost of labor is estimated by 

 the Illinois state council of national de- 

 fense as not more than 25 cents per 

 ton. Other authorities doubt that the 

 cost of materials used in mining has in- 

 creased as much as appears in this 

 statement. But, taking these figures 

 at their face value, and averaging last 

 year's price of screenings at 90 cents a 

 ton, this year's price, so far as justified 

 by the jump in production cost, should 

 be about $1.55 a ton. 



Instead of that it is $2.75 a ton, 

 which leaves a new profit of $1.20 a 

 ton. In other words, the coal mine 

 owners, after making liberal allow- 

 ances for increases in cost, seem to have 

 added 130 per cent to last year's price 

 at the mine mouth, for no other ap- 



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parent reason than that they think 

 they can get the money. 



And it is stated that mine operators 

 last year made an average profit of 

 eighteen per cent on their invested 

 capital. 



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We have 15,000 square feet of glass, 

 heated with a Kroeschell hot water 



