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The Florists^ Review 



November 7, 1912. 



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THE FUEL MARKET. 



Coal men are looking for a break in 

 the market in the near future, as cars 

 are commencing to move more freely 

 than for some time. The fuel mart 

 apparently has hit the high water 

 mark on some grades, but hardly any 

 of the companies are yet able to get 

 enough cars to fill what they booked on 

 contract during the summer. Eastern 

 shippers are finding it most difficult to 

 find the necessary transportation for 

 coal that has been mined, but only the 

 need of cars is keeping the price up. 

 The shortage of the coal itself is over 

 for the time being, but owing to the 

 fact that the railroads cannot provide 

 the carriers the dealers have not been 

 willing to accept any great amount of 

 business at even the highest bid. Should 

 the relief come from the transportation 

 companies the market will be affected 

 and prices are expected to become nor- 

 mal until the first bad cold spell, when 

 the coal men predict that the shortage 

 of both coal and cars as well as the 

 difficulty of moving cars in severe 

 weather will compel the operators to 

 ask higher prices again. 



CAB SHOBTAGE SEBIOUS. 



Every grower whose bunkers are not 

 full of coal should note that the short- 

 age of freight cars, the menace of a 

 coal famine, and industrial paralysis in 

 some parts of the country have becom« 

 so serious that the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission has sent shippers and rail- 

 roads recommendations for its relief. 

 The proposal was accompanied by a 

 thinly veiled intimation that should 

 they fail to remedy the situation the 

 commission itself would find a way to 

 do so. 



"The condition is acute," said Com- 

 missioner Franklin K. Lane, who for 

 several weeks has been conducting an 

 inquiry. "Great institutions of the 

 country — the University of Michigan at 

 Ann Arbor, for instance — are practically 

 out of fuel and cannot get it because 

 there are no cars for its transportation. 

 If an immediate remedy is not found, 

 people in parts of this country will be 

 freezing to death because of their in- 

 ability to get coal. ' ' 



The car shortage is said to have been 

 found to be due in part to delay in un- 

 loading cars, the slow movement of 

 freight cars, and failure of railroads to 

 return cars to the lines owning them. 

 In the latter case, it is said, railroads 

 hold cars, paying a nominal charge for 

 their use. This the commission de- 



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nounces as "nothing less than theft." 

 The investigation of slow movement of 

 freights developed that a freight car 

 averaged about twenty miles a day and 

 that while one was moving thirteen 

 were standing still. 



The commission makes several sugges- 



tions for the improvement of the effi- 

 ciency of freight equipment and the re- 

 lief of the car shortage: 



' ' That a higher per diem rate shall be 

 made to apply for the use of cars as 

 between carriers. 



"That an inspection service be at 



