General Orders, Regulations and Rulings of the United States Fuel Administration

Hereby orders and directs, that the Order of said Administrator dated March 27, 1918, entitled "Order relative to Bituminous Coal 'Zone K' regulating the production, sale, shipment, distribution and apportionment of bituminous coal and the method of such production, sale, shipment, distribution and apportionment by all producers of bituminous coal operating in the coal producing districts of the State of Ohio," 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 October 10, 1918, and until further or other order in the premises:

SECTION I.

Except as hereinafter provided, no bituminous coal produced in the State of Ohio, hereby designated Producing Zone K, 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 Ohio located east of a line coincident with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway from Cincinnati, Ohio, through Hamilton, Ohio, to the western boundary of Ohio;

(2) That portion of the State of Indiana located east of a line coincident with the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway from Richmond, Indiana, through Fort Wayne to the northern boundary of Indiana,

Provided, however, that slack or screenings produced in said Producing Zone K may be sold, shipped and distributed to consumers and for use and consumption within the following described section of the United States, in addition to the territory herein before described, viz.:

That portion of the lower peninsula of the State of Michigan located east and south of a line coincident, from the southern boundary of Michigan, with the line of the New York Central Railroad from Toledo, Ohio, to Jackson, Michigan; thence coincident with the Michigan Central Railroad to Detroit, Michigan: and

Provided, further, that, subject to any rules and regulations that may from time to time be prescribed by the United States Fuel Administration, and under the supervision of the District Representative of the United States Fuel Administration in charge of said Producing Zone K, bituminous coal of special quality produced in said zone, may be shipped for use only for by-product purposes and the manufacture of illuminating gas, and not as steam coal, and prepared sizes of and run of mine bituminous coal produced in said zone may be shipped for use only by domestic consumers in the following described section of the United States, viz.:

That portion of the lower peninsula of the State of Michigan located east of a line coincident with the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway and its branches.

SECTION II.

The territory described in Section I hereof is hereby designated Consuming Zone K, 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 included 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 K, 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 K, 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 K,

(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 K, 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 K 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 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,

By CYRUS GARNSEY, Jr.,

Assistant United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Oct. 31, 1918, Effective Nov. 4, 1918, Modifying the Order of Oct. 10, 1918, Relative to Bituminous Coal Zone K, being Modification No. 1 of said Order.

WASHINGTON, D. C., October 31, 1918.

It appearing to the United States Fuel Administrator that for the better distribution and apportionment of bituminous coal, Consuming Zone K as defined in the order of said Administrator dated October 10, 1918, relating to Bituminous Coal Zone K, should be enlarged to the extent hereinafter specified,

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 Section I of the Regulation aforesaid be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:

SECTION I.

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

(2) That portion of the State of Indiana located east of a line coincident with the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway from Richmond, Indiana, through Fort Wayne to the northern boundary of Indiana,

Provided, however, that, subject to any rules and regulations that may from time to time be prescribed by the United States Fuel Administration, and under the supervision of the District Representative of the United States Fuel Administration in charge of said Producing Zone K, bituminous coal of special quality produced in said zone, may be shipped for use only for by-product purposes and the manufacture of illuminating gas, and not as steam coal, and prepared sizes of and run of mine bituminous coal produced in said zone may be shipped for use only by domestic consumers, in the following described territory, and that run of mine and slack and screenings produced in the Hocking, Pomeroy, Jackson, Crooksville and Ironton Districts of said Producing Zone K may be sold, shipped and distributed to consumers and for use and consumption in said territory, viz.:

That portion of the lower peninsula of the State of Michigan located east of a line tcoincident with the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway and its branches, and

Provided, further, that bituminous coal produced in said Producing Zone K, along the New York Central, Erie, Pittsburgh & West Virginia and Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroads, when routed via the Erie, New York Central, or New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroads, may be sold, shipped and distributed to consumers and for use and consumption in the following described territory, viz.:

That portion of northwestern Pennsylvania and southwestern New York north and west of a line coincident with the Erie Railroad from Sharon, Pennsylvania, through Meadville and Cory, Pennsylvania, and Dayton, New York, to Buffalo, New York. This order shall be effective November 4, 1918.

H. A. GARFIELD,

United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Nov. 7, 1918, Effective Nov. 11, 1918, Modifying the Order of Oct. 10, 1918, Relative to Bituminous Coal Zone K, Being Modification No. 2 of Said Order.

WASHINGTON, D. C., November 7, 1918.

It appearing to the United States Fuel Administrator that for the better distribution and apportionment of bituminous coal, all grades and qualities of bituminous coal produced in Producing Zone K should be permitted to move to the lower peninsula of Michigan,

Hereby orders and directs that Section I of the Regulation aforesaid be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows:

SECTION I.

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

(2) That portion of the State of Indiana located east of a line coincident with the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway from Richmond, Indiana, through Fort Wayne to the northern boundary of Indiana;

(3) That portion of the lower peninsula of the State of Michigan located east of a line coincident with the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway and its branches, and

Provided, further, That bituminous coal produced in said Producing Zone K, along the New York Central, Erie, Pittsburgh & West Virginia and Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroads, when routed via the Erie, New York Central, or New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroads, may be sold, shipped, and distributed for use and consumption in the following described territory, viz:

H. A. GARFIELD,

United States Fuel Administrator.

Section 11.-Zone L and Modifications.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Mar. 27, 1918, Effective April 1, 1918, Establishing Bituminous Coal "Zone L", Regulating the Distribution and Apportionment of Bituminous Coal from Operations in the High Volatile Districts of West Virginia along the Kanawha and Michigan, Kanawha and West Virginia, Coal and Coke (West of Dundon) Railways and their Short Line Connections.

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 bituminous 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 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 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 West Virginia, along the Kanawha & Michigan, Kanawha & West Virginia, Coal & Coke (West of Dundon) Railways and their short line connections, 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:

(1) Those portions of the States of West Virginia, Ohio and Indiana on and within the following boundary lines:

On the East from Charleston, West Virginia on a line coincident with the Kanawha & Michigan Railway, Zanesville & Western Railway and Toledo and Ohio Central Railway through Zanesville to Bucyrus; thence coincident with the Pennsylvania Lines West to Sandusky, Ohio; On the West from Charleston, West Virginia, on a line coincident with the Kanawha & Michigan Railway to Athens, Ohio; thence coincident with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad through Chillicothe and Washington Courthouse to Dayton; thence coincident with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway to Richmond, Indiana, thence coincident with the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway to the Michigan State Line;

(2) All of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan,

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 consuming zone;

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, 1918, Effective April 23, 1918, Modifying, with Respect to Shipments in Box Cars from Operations in West Virginia along the Kanawha and Michigan: Kanawha and West Virginia, Coal and Coke (West of Dundon) Railways and their Short Line Connections, the Order of Mar. 27, 1918, Establishing Bituminous Coal "Zone L," 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 L" covered by his Order relative to Bituminous coal "Zone L" 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

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