Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of April 19, 1918, Effective 7 a. m., April 20, 1918, Fixing Prices at the Mine for Coal Mined in the State of Kansas.

To all persons, firms and corporations engaged in the mining and production of coal in the State of Kansas:

The President of the United States having heretofore, on or about the 21st day of August, 1917, by virtue of the provisions of an Act of Congress known as the Food Law, ordered and directed that coal mined in the State of Kansas should be sold at the prices named in said order; and an application having been thereafter made to the United States Fuel Administrator for a revision of such prices applicable to coal mined in Osage County in said State; and the United States Fuel Administrator, after due consideration of said application for revision of price, having ordered and directed that coal mined in Osage County, in the State of Kansas, should be sold at prices not to exceed, for run of mine, $3.05 per ton, prepared sizes, $4.50 per ton, and slack or screenings, $2.80 per ton, and that mines in Leavenworth should take the prices named for Platte County, in the State of Missouri;

Now, the United States Fuel Administrator, after further consideration of said application for revision of prices and of the prices applicable to all coal mined in the State of Kansas, and 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 coal mined in the State of Kansas may be sold at prices not to exceed the following, viz:

Cherokee and Crawford Counties, except shaft mines in Lightning Creek or upper thin vein, and any mining operations in the State not covered by other rulings..

Shaft workings in the Lightning Creek or upper thin vein in Cherokee and
Crawford Counties..

Osage, Franklin and Linn Counties.

Leavenworth County..

This order shall become effective at 7 a. m. April 20, 1918.

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19, 1918.

H. A. GARFIELD,

United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Aug. 1, 1918, Effective Aug. 3, 1918, Fixing Prices at the Mine for Nut Run or Stoker Coal and Mill Coal Produced in Cherokee and Crawford Counties, Kansas.

The United States Fuel Administrator having, by a regulation promulgated May 27, 1918, and contained in Publication No. 25 of the United States Fuel Administration, defined the terms "slack or screenings" and "prepared sizes" as used in the Executive Order of the President dated August 21, 1917, and in the orders of the United States Fuel Administrator fixing prices of bituminous coal, and it having been provided in Section 4 of such Regulation that the United States Fuel Administrator, upon application from producers or consumers in any district might establish prices for any special sizes different from those defined in said regulation, or for any mixture of sizes required for the proper distribution of coal from such district, and application having been made by producers and consumers of coal produced in the district comprising Cherokee and Crawford Counties in the State of Kansas, for the establishment of prices for coal of the special sizes known as Nut Run or Stoker Coal and Mill Coal,

and it having been determined by the United States Fuel Administrator that the establishment of prices for such special sizes is required for the proper distribution of coal produced in said district,,

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 makes and establishes the following regulation, effective August 3, 1918, until further or other order, and subject to modification hereafter from time to time and at any time:

REGULATION FIXING THE PRICES OF NUT RUN OR STOKER COAL AND MILL COAL IN CHEROKEE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES, KANSAS.

The prices of Nut Run or Stoker Coal and Mill Coal produced in Cherokee and Crawford Counties, in the State of Kansas, and shipped on and after the effective date of this Regulation, are hereby fixed f. o. b. cars at the mine, per net ton as follows:

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Oct. 11, 1917, Effective Noon Oct. 11, 1917, Fixing Prices at the Mine for Coal Mined in McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Jackson, Lee, Wolfe, Morgan, Lawrence, Johnson, Martin, Whitley, Laurel, Clay, Owsley, Knox, Bell, Breathitt, Perry, Leslie, Harlan, Magoffin, Boyd, Carter, and Pike Counties, Kentucky, Floyd, Knott, and Letcher Counties, Kentucky (Excepting coal produced from the thick vein Elkhorn district), Scott, Campbell, Claiborne, Ander. son, and Morgan Counties, Tennessee, and Mines Operated Near St. Charles, Lee County, Virginia, by Darby Coal Mining Co., Black Mountain Mining Co., Virginia Lee Co., Old Virginia Coal Co., United Collieries Co. (Inc.), and Benedict Coal Corporation.

To all persons, firms and corporations engaged in the mining of coal in the Counties of McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Jackson, Lee, Wolfe, Morgan, Lawrence, Johnson, Martin, Whitley, Laurel, Clay, Owsley, Knox, Bell, Breathitt, Perry, Leslie, Harlan, Magoffin, Boyd, Carter, Pike, and all of Floyd, Knott and Letcher Counties excepting coal produced from the thick vein Elkhorn District in these three Counties, in the State of Kentucky; in the Counties of Scott, Campbell, Claiborne, Anderson and Morgan, in the state of Tennessee; and mines operated near St. Charles, Lee County, Virginia, by the Darby Coal Mining Co., Black Mountain Mining Co., Virginia Lee Co., Old Virginia Coal Co., United Collieries Co., Inc., and Benedict Coal Corporation, in the State of Virginia:

The President of the United States having heretofore on or about the 21st day of August, 1917, by virtue of the provisions of an Act of Congress known as the Food Law, ordered and directed that coal mined in the State of Kentucky other than in the Jellico District shall be sold at the following prices, to wit: run of mine, $1.95 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.20 per ton, slack or screenings, $1.70 per ton; that coal mined

in the State of Tennessee other than in the Jellico District shall be sold at the follow ing prices, to wit: run of mine, $2.30 per ton, prepared sizes $2.55 per ton, slack or screenings, $2.05 per ton; and that coal mined in the State of Virginia shall be sold at the following prices, to wit: run of mine, $2.00 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.25 per ton, slack or screenings, $1.75 per ton; and various applications having heretofore been made to the Fuel Administrator for a revision of such prices applicable to such coal mined in the above mentioned Counties in the said States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, and said applications having been duly considered by the Fuel Administrator;

The United States Fuel Administrator, acting under authority of an Executive Order of the President of the United States dated August 23, 1917, appointing said Administrator, 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 order in the premises, the above mentioned prices for coal mined in the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia be and the same hereby are modified, pending further investigation, in the following particulars and in no other;

Coal mined in the Counties of McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Jackson, Lee, Wolfe, Morgan, Lawrence, Johnson, Martin, Whitley, Laurel, Clay, Owsley, Knox, Bell, Breathitt, Perry, Leslie, Harlan, Magoffin, Boyd, Carter, Pike, and all of Floyd, Knott and Letcher Counties excepting coal produced from the thick vein Elkhorn District in these three Counties, in the State of Kentucky; coal mined in the Counties of Scott, Campbell, Claiborne, Anderson, and Morgan, in the State of Tennessee; and coal mined in mines operated near St. Charles, Lee County, Virginia, by the Darby Coal Mining Co., Black Mountain Mining Co., Virginia Lee Co., Old Virginia Coal Co., United Collieries Co., Inc., and Benedict Coal Corporation, in the State of Virginia, may be sold at prices not to exceed, for run of mine, $2.40 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.65 per ton, slack or screenings, $2.15 per ton.

These prices shall become effective at noon, October 11, 1917.

Washington, D. C., October 11, 1917.

H. A. GARFIELD,
Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Nov. 5, 1917, Effective 7 a. m., Nov. 6, 1917, Fixing Prices at the Mine for Coal Mined in the Blue Gem Seam in Campbell County, Tennessee, and in Whitley, Knox, Clay, and Bell Counties, Kentucky.1

To all persons, firms and corporations engaged in the mining and production of coal in the Blue Gem Seam in Campbell County, in the State of Tennessee, and in the Counties of Whitley, Knox, Clay and Bell, in the State of Kentucky:

The President of the United States, having heretofore, on or about the 21st day of August, 1917, by virtue of the provisions of an Act of Congress known as the Food Law, ordered and directed that coal mined in the State of Kentucky other than in the Jellico District shall be sold at the following prices, to wit: run of mine, $1.95 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.20 per ton, slack or screenings, $1.70 per ton; that coal mined in the State of Tennessee other than in the Jellico District shall be sold at the following prices, to wit: run of mine, $2.30 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.55 per ton, slack or screenings, $2.05 per ton; and that coal mined in the State of Virginia shall be sold at the following prices, to wit: run of mine, $2.00 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.25 per ton, slack or screenings, $1.75 per ton; and various applications having been heretofore made to the Fuel Administrator for a revision of such prices applicable to

It has been ruled that the prices fixed by the above order include the 45¢ per ton wage increase provided for in the Executive Order of October 27, 1917.

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such coal mined in certain mentioned counties in the said States of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia;

And the United States Fuel Administrator, after due consideration of the said. applications for revisions of prices, and acting under authority of an Executive Order of the President of the United States dated August 23, 1917, appointing said Administrator, and in furtherance of the purpose of said order and of the Act of Congress therein referred to and approved August 10, 1917, having ordered and directed that until further order in the premises, the above mentioned prices for coal mined in the States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia be modified, pending further investigation, in the following particulars and in no other: Coal mined in the Counties of McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Jackson, Lee, Wolfe, Morgan, Lawrence, Johnson, Martin, Whitley, Laurel, Owsley, Clay, Knox, Bell, Breathitt, Perry, Leslie, Harlan, Magoffin, Boyd, Carter, Pike, and all of Floyd; Knott and Letcher Counties excepting coal produced from the thick vein Elkhorn District in these three Counties, in the State of Kentucky; coal mined in the Counties of Scott, Campbell, Claiborne, Anderson, and Morgan, in the State of Tennessee; and coal mined in mines, operated near St. Charles, Lee County, Virginia, by the Darby Coal Mining Co., Black Mountain Mining Co., Virginia Lee Co., Old Virginia Coal Co., United Collieries Co., Inc., and Benedict Coal Corporation, in the State of Virginia, may be sold at prices not to exceed, for run of mine, $2.40 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.65 per ton, slack or screenings, $2.15 per ton;

Now, the United States Fuel Administrator, after further consideration of the said applications for revision of prices in said Counties, and acting under authority of an Executive Order of the President of the United States dated August 23, 1917, appointing said Administrator, 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 order in the premises, the above mentioned prices for coal mined in the above mentioned Counties in the said States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, be and the same hereby are further modified, pending further investigation, in the following particulars and in no other:

Coal mined in the Blue Gem Seam in the County of Campbell, in the State of Tennessee, and in the Counties of Whitley, Knox, Clay and Bell, in the State of Kentucky, may be sold at prices not to exceed, for run of mine, $4.00 per ton, prepared sizes, $4.25 per ton, and slack or screenings, $2.75 per ton.

These prices shall become effective at 7 a. m., November 6, 1917.

WASHINGTON, D. C., November 5, 1917.

H. A. GARFIELD, United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of Dec. 3, 1917, Effective 7 a. m., Dec. 3, 1917, Fixing Prices at the Mine for Coal Mined in Claiborne, Anderson, Morgan, Scott, and Campbell Counties (other than the Blue Gem District), Tennessee, and in Whitley, Knox, Bell, and McCreary Counties (other than the Blue Gem District), Kentucky.'

To all persons, firms and corporations engaged in the mining and production of coal in the Counties of Claiborne, Campbell, Anderson, Morgan, and Scott, in the State of Tennessee, and in the Counties of Knox, Whitley, Bell, and McCreary, in the State of Kentucky:

The President of the United States having heretofore, on or about the 21st day of August, 1917, by virtue of the provisions of an Act of Congress known as the Food

The increase allowed by the above order was granted with the understanding that it should remain in effect for only 30 days. See letter quoted below:

"We beg to inform you that the order has been entered permitting coal mined in the counties of Claiborne, Campbell, Anderson, Morgan and Scott in the State of Tennessee, and the counties of Knox,

Law, ordered and directed that coal mined in the State of Kentucky, other than in the Jellico District should be sold at the following prices, to wit: run of mine, $1.95 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.20 per ton, slack or screenings, $1.70 per ton, and that coal mined in the State of Tennessee other than in the Jellico District should be sold at at the following prices, to wit: run of mine, $2.30 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.55 per ton, slack or screenings, $2.05 per ton: and various applications having been thereafter made to the Fuel Administrator for a revision of such prices applicable to certain mentioned counties, in the said States of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the United States Fuel Administrator, after due consideration of the said applications for revision of prices, having modified the said prices applicable to said counties in said States; and a further application having been made to the United States Fuel Administrator for a further revision of said prices applicable to the above mentioned counties in the States of Tennessee and Kentucky;

Now, the United States Fuel Administrator, having considered the said second application for further revision of prices applicable to the above mentioned Counties, and acting under authority of an Executive Order of the President of the United States dated August 23, 1917, appointing said Administrator, and in furtherance of the purpose of said order and of the Act of Congress therein referred to and approved Aug. 10, 1917,

Hereby orders and directs that, until further order in the premises the above mentioned prices for coal mined in the States of Tennessee and Kentucky be and the same hereby are further modified, pending further investigation, in the following particulars and in no other: Coal mined in the Counties of Claiborne, Anderson, Morgan, Scott and Campbell other than the Blue Gem District, in the State of Tennessee, and in the Counties of Whitley, Knox, Bell and McCreary, other than the Blue Gem District, in the State of Kentucky, may be sold at prices not to exceed for run of mine, $2.65 per ton, prepared sizes, $2.90 per ton, and slack or screenings, $2.40 per ton." These prices shall become effective at 7 a. m., December 3, 1917.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 3, 1917.

H. A. GARFIELD, United States Fuel Administrator.

Order of the United States Fuel Administrator of April 4, 1918, Effective 7 a. m., April 5, 1918, Firing Prices at the Mine for Coal Mined in Harlan, Perry, and Letcher Counties, Operations in Pike County on the Levisa Fork of the Big Sandy River, and East of the 85th Degree of Longitude except Harlan, Perry, Letcher, Pike and Martin Counties, Kentucky.

To all persons, firms, and corporations engaged in the mining and production of coal in the State of Kentucky:

The President of the United States having heretofore, on or about the 21st day of August, 1917, by virtue of the provisions of an Act of Congress known as the Food

Whitley, Bell and McCreary in the State of Kentucky, to be sold at an increase of 25¢ per ton over the present prices prescribed for such coal.

"This temporary increase was granted by reason of the fact that we are informed that the operators involved misunderstood the rules of this office as to the filing of cost sheets and other data as a necessary preliminary to obtaining any change in the President's prices. An immediate announcement will be made to the coal trade as to these rules so that there may be no further misunderstandings in this regard and that there may be no further necessity for any such temporary orders.

"The advance is granted on the further specific condition, as stated to Mr. Alexander Bennymanin person, that this price will continue for thirty days from date, the 3rd of December, and that prior to the expiration of this period a definite readjustment of these prices will be made by the Fuel Acn.iristration. All companies having any substantial production in the above-named counties that fail to file cost sheets, according to rules, on or before 17th day of December will, at the option of the United States Fuel Administration, be denied the right to use the amended price." (Letter from U. S. Fuel Administration by H. D. Nims to So. Appalachian Coal Operators' Ass'n, dated Dec. 3, 1917.)

On January 4, 1918, the examination of the cost sheets submitted not having been completed, the order was continued in effect, in accordance with its terms, until further notice.