The United States Fuel Administrator, acting under authority of an Executive Order of the President of the United States, dated 23 August, 1917, appointing said Administrator, and of subsequent Executive Orders, and in furtherance of the purpose of said orders and of the Act of Congress therein referred to and approved August 10, 1917,

Hereby orders and directs that, until further or other order of the United States Fuel Administrator, and subject to revocation or modification by him from time to time and at any time hereafter, every producer (which term shall include every person, firm, corporation or association operating as owner, lessee or purchaser of the entire output of a mine) of bituminous coal in the State of Illinois may, in addition to the territory to which they are permitted to ship under "Zone C", continue to sell, ship and distribute, as provided in said order of June 28, 1918, until further notice, bituminous coal slack or screenings to dealers and consumers for use and consumption within the following described section of the United States, viz:

That portion of the State of Wisconsin on and north of a line coincident with the Green Bay & Western Railroad from Kewaunee, Wisconsin to Amherst Junction; thence coincident with the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway through Abbottsford and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

H. A. GARFIELD,

United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Nov. 14, 1918, Effective Nov. 22, 1918, Vacating all Prior Orders Relative to Bituminous Coal Zone C, and Establishing a Regulation of the Sale, Shipment, Distribution, and Apportionment of Bituminous Coal Produced in the State of Illinois.

WASHINGTON, D. C., November 14, 1918.

It appearing to the United States Fuel Administrator that the various orders heretofore made by said Administrator relative to Bituminous Coal Zone C, regulating the sale, shipment, distribution, and apportionment of bituminous coal produced in the State of Illinois, should be revised and embodied in a single regulation,

The United States Fuel Administrator, acting under authority of an Executive Order of the President of the United States, dated 23 August, 1917, appointing said Administrator, and of subsequent Executive Orders, and in furtherance of the purpose of said orders and of the Act of Congress therein referred to and approved August 10, 1917,

Hereby orders and directs, that the order of said Administrator, dated March 27, 1918, entitled "Order relative to Bituminous Coal 'Zone C' regulating the production, sale, shipment, distribution, and apportionment of bituminous coal and the method of such production, sale, shipment, distribution, and apportionment during the period from April 1 to September 30, by all producers of bituminous coal operating in the coal producing districts of the State of Illinois," and all amendments and modifications of said order, be and the same hereby are vacated and set aside as of the effective date of the regulation hereinafter established, and

Hereby makes and establishes the following regulation effective November 22, 1918, and until further or other order in the premises:

SECTION I.

Except as hereinafter provided, no bituminous coal produced in the State of Illinois, hereby designated Producing Zone C, shall be sold, shipped or distributed, except to consumers, and for use or consumption within the following-described sections of the United States, viz:

(1) That portion of the State of Wisconsin south of a line coincident with the Green Bay and Western Railroad from Kewaunee, Wisconsin, to Amherst Junction; thence

coincident with the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway, through Abbottsford and Chippewa Falls to the western boundary of Wisconsin;

(2) That portion of the State of Minnesota south of a line coincident with the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway from the eastern boundary of Minnesota through Carnelian Junction, Minnesota, to Minneapolis, Minnesota; thence coincident with the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad to Norwood, Minnesota; thence coincident with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway to Ortonville, Minnesota;

(3) That portion of the State of Iowa located north and east of a line coincident with the Illinois Central Railroad from Sioux City through Fort Dodge to Ackley, Iowa; thence coincident with the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad through Marshalltown to Albia; thence coincident with the Wabash Railroad to Moravia; thence coincident with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway through Sewal to the southern boundary of Iowa;

(4) That portion of the State of Missouri east of a line coincident with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway from Powersville, Missouri, to Chillicothe; thence coincident with the Wabash Railway to Moberly; thence coincident with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway to North Jefferson City; thence coincident with the western boundary of Cole, Miller, and Pulaski Counties, Missouri, to the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway; thence coincident with the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway through Neosho, to the southern boundary of Missouri;

(5) That portion of the State of Arkansas north of a line coincident with the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway from Memphis, Tennessee, through Little Rock and Mansfield, Arkansas to the western boundary of Arkansas; also points on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway and St. Louis Southwestern Railway south of the said line of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway;

(6) All points in the State of Louisiana located on the lines of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway;

(7) That portion of the States of Tennessee and Kentucky west of a line coincident with the Illinois Central Railroad from Memphis, Tennessee, through Fulton and Clinton, Kentucky, to Cairo, Illinois;

(8) The State of Illinois;

(9) That portion of the State of Indiana west of a line coincident with the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad from Evansville, Indiana, through Otter Creek Junction and Brazil to Wheatfield; thence coincident with the New York Central Railroad to South Bend; thence coincident with the Michigan Central Railroad to the northern boundary of Indiana;

(10) The lower peninsula of the State of Michigan.

Provided, however, that the producers of bituminous coal in the State of Illinois having operations located along the Mobile & Ohio Railroad and its short line connections, may also sell, ship, and distribute such coal for use and consumption within the following-described section of the United States, viz:

All stations and points of delivery located on the Mobile & Ohio Railroad and its short line connections within the States of Tennessee and Mississippi, to and including Meridian, Mississippi, and all places within switching limits of such points, and

Provided, further, that the producers of bituminous coal in the State of Illinois having operations located along the Wabash Railway in Vermilion County may also sell, ship, and distribute such coal for use and consumption within the following-described section of the United States, viz:

All stations and points of delivery located on the Wabash Railway within the State of Indiana, and all places within switching limits of such points, and

Provided, further, that the producers of bituminous coal in the State of Illinois having operations located along the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railroad in Sangamon County may also sell, ship and distribute such coal for use and consumption within the following-described sections of the United States, viz:

All stations and points of delivery in Indiana located along the Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railroad to and including Indianapolis, and all places within switching limits of such points.

SECTION II.

The territory described in Section I hereof is hereby designated Consuming Zone C, and wherever any boundary of said zone follows a line of railway, said zone shall include all points on the portion of the line of railway included in such boundary, and all places within the switching limits of such points.

SECTION III.

Coal consigned in accordance with the terms of Section I hereof shall not be diverted to any point outside said Consuming Zone C, unless the consent in writing of the Coal Zone Permit Bureau of the United States Fuel Administration to such diversion shall first have been obtained.

SECTION IV.

The provisions of Section I of this regulation shall not apply to, or restrict, deliveries of bituminous coal from Producing Zone C, by wagon or truck, or shipments of such coal

(a) For use as railroad fuel;

(b) In whole or in part, by inland waterways (other than the Great Lakes) except where such shipment requires a rail movement from the mines to the waterways terminating outside Consuming Zone C;

(c) To any points in Canada or Mexico when points of entry to these countries are located within said consuming zone, such shipments to be subject to all applicable license regulations of the United States Fuel Administration or the War Trade Board now or hereafter in force.

SECTION V.

Coal produced in said Producing Zone C, of such special quality, for such special use or purpose, in such quantity and consigned to such retail dealer or consumer outside said Consuming Zone C as shall be designated in a permit issued by the Coal Zone Permit Bureau of the United States Fuel Administration in accordance with such rules and regulations as said Administration may from time to time prescribe, may be shipped to said retail dealer or consumer, provided that no coal shipped under such permit shall be diverted by reconsignment or otherwise from the original consignee, unless the consent in writing of said Coal Zone Permit Bureau to such diversion shall first have been obtained.

Any person, firm, association, or corporation violating or refusing to conform to this regulation will be liable to the penalties prescribed in the aforesaid Act of Congress. H. A. GARFIeld,

United States Fuel Administrator.

Section 5.-Zone D and Modifications.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of March 27, 1918, Effective April 1, 1918, Establishing Bituminous Coal "Zone D," Regulating the Distribution and Apportionment of Bituminous Coal from Operations in Indiana.

WASHINGTON, D. C., March 27, 1918.

It appearing to the United States Fuel Administrator that it is essential to the national security and defense, the successful prosecution of the war, and the support and maintenance of the army and navy, that the greatest possible supply of bitumi

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nous coal should be produced in the United States; that such production, even though all other conditions necessary therefor are present and capable of employment, is, because of the locations of the mines and the nature of the commodity, limited in part by the capacity of existing transportation facilities for the movement of the coal from points of production to points of delivery and consumption; that the amount of production, notwithstanding a continuance of the other present favorable conditions therefor, can be immediately increased by means of the greater utilization of coal cars, locomotives and other railroad facilities; and that among such means are the elimination of unnecessarily long hauls and of avoidable cross hauls of loaded and empty coal cars, and the provision of the necessary supply of such coal for each consuming section of the country from the one or more coal fields nearest thereto, or most readily accessible thereto, either in actual distance or in the freedom from congestion and delays in rail movements between such coal fields and such section; and that apportionment of the bituminous coal, produced in the various coal fields of the United States, for delivery and consumption thereof in the different designated consuming sections of the United States, sometimes called a zoning system, will facilitate the movement of bituminous coal, tend to prevent either locally or generally scarcity thereof, and is necessary for the production of a sufficient quantity of bituminous coal to aid in the successful prosecution of the war,

The United States Fuel Administrator, acting under authority of an Executive Order of the President of the United States, dated 23 August, 1917, appointing said Administrator, and of subsequent Executive Orders, and in furtherance of the purpose of said order and of the Act of Congress therein referred to and approved August 10, 1917,

Hereby orders and directs that until further or other order of the United States Fuel Administrator, and subject to revocation or modification by him from time to time and at any time hereafter, every producer (which term includes every person, firm, corporation or association operating as owner, lessee, or purchaser of the entire output of a mine) of bituminous coal in the State of Indiana, shall, except as hereinafter provided, sell, ship, and distribute such coal only to dealers and consumers and for use and consumption within the following described section of the United States, hereinafter called consuming zone, viz: that portion of the States of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Michigan on and within the following boundary lines:

1. On the East, from Joppa, Illinois, on a line coincident with the Ohio River (both banks) to Madison, Indiana; thence coincident with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway to North Vernon; thence coincident with the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway to Rushville; thence coincident with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway through Richmond to the Indiana-Ohio State Line; thence coincident with the Indiana-Ohio State Line North to the Southern boundary of Michigan; thence coincident with the New York Central Railroad through Jackson, Michigan, to Lansing; thence coincident with the Pere Marquette Railway to Howard City; thence coincident with the Grand Rapids & & Indiana Railway to Mackinaw City, Michigan;

2. On the West, from Joppa, Illinois, coincident with the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway to Arthur, Illinois; thence coincident with the Vandalia Railroad to Peoria, thence coincident with the Chicago & Northwestern Railway through Nelson, Sycamore and Belvidere, Illinois to Beloit, Wisconsin; thence coincident with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway through Elkhorn and Waukesha to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Provided, however, that any such producer may ship such a quantity of coal of such special quality, and for such special use or purpose, and to such retail dealer or consumer outside of the above designated zone, as may be described and designated in a permit issued by the United States Fuel Administration upon an application from such

consumer, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be from time to time prescribed by the United States Fuel Administration;

And, provided further that this order shall not apply to bituminous coal.

(a) Shipped for use as railroad fuel,

(b) Shipped in whole or in part by inland waterways (other than the Great Lakes) excepting cases where any rail movement from the mines to the waterways would not terminate within the above designated zone;

(c) Shipped to any points in Canada or Mexico.

Wherever any boundary of the consuming zone described in this order follows a line of railway, the consuming zone shall include all places usually taking deliveries of bituminous coal from points on the portion of the line of railway included in such boundary or within switching limits of other railway lines connecting therewith. This order shall be effective on and after April 1, 1918.

H. A. GARFIEld,

United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of April 23, 1917, Effective April 23, 1918, Modifying, with Respect to Shipments in Box Cars, from Operations in Indiana, the Order of March 27, 1918, Establishing Bituminous Coal "Zone D," being Modification No. 1 of said Order.

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 23, 1918.

It appearing to the United States Fuel Administrator, that further apportionment of Bituminous coal in that portion of the so-called "Zone D" covered by his "Order relative to Bituminous Coal “Zone D” of March 27, 1918” will facilitate the movement of Bituminous coal, tend to prevent scarcity thereof and is necessary for the production of a sufficient quantity of Bituminous coal to aid in the successful prosecution of the war;

The United States Fuel Administrator, acting under authority of an Executive Order of the President of the United States, dated 23 August, 1917, appointing said Administrator, and of subsequent Executive Orders, and in furtherance of the purpose of said order and of the Act of Congress therein referred to and approved August 10, 1917;

Hereby orders and directs that until further or other order of the United States Fuel Administrator, and subject to revocation or modification by him from time to time and at any time hereafter, producers (which term includes every person, firm, corporation and association operating as owner, lessee or purchaser of the entire output of a mine) of Bituminous coal operating in the coal producing districts in Indiana may in addition to the consuming zone to which they may sell, ship and distribute coal under the order of March 27, 1918, relative to Bituminous coal "Zone D" sell, ship and distribute such coal to dealers and consumers and for use and consumption within the following described section of the United States, viz:

(1) West bound to all points reached via the car ferries of the (a) Grand Trunk Railway operating between Grand Haven, Mich, and Milwaukee, Wis. (b) Pere Marquette Railway operating between Ludington, Mich., and Manitowoc, Wis., and between Ludington, Mich., and Milwaukee, Wis., (c) Ann Arbor Steamship Company operating between Frankfort, Mich., and Manistique, Mich., between Frankfort, Mich., and Menominee, Mich., between Frankfort, Mich., and Kewaunee, Wis., and between Frankfort, Mich., and Manitowoc, Wis.

Provided however that shipments made in accordance with this order shall be permitted only when coal is loaded in returning box cars or returning stock cars. This order shall be effective on and after April 23, 1918.

H. A. GARFIELD, United States Fuel Administrator.