4 | p a Bvery 3965/4: Bur | Bulletin No. 0 one o SuLlt or many It may inter in Pennsyiva The Sta ing the war survey jas purine the £ Geclined, JANUBArY, 9h 44 Clear average in t 4,05 to. 31, when the pri Tea with a and that Novernper , $14... OA L9 Pyows thet the MM reresran mi 0) ween ee DEFARTMEN? jJemes fF. ——— Sion Oy \A oe SUREAU OF George TOPOGRAPHIC He. Ashley, LEEEOLT OF THE By George FZ ey ee ee INTE AEH mt i ] f Al 6 om by § , Woodwex _—— FAR ON DHE <7 A py A ~~ ina B DTPNIDT Enz PENN SY 18 0 eee ene ——S ~ of Sa 2 a i ae Blea AND GEOLOGIC AT State Geologis om ce DRICE OF COAT 2 pr ge foe (lang, Ae Bl 8 Ss ee ® A Ss n as ee y eenewen ee a re S eresent’: “Ups-anc-dcovmns , in whi €st many to have somet nia during the war, tha tise cos rices ne iknow te Geologist has from tables just i rt of a series of (sv vear of the war t spot price of CAM de fey HUW OO SH ee field coal declined fr ne latte) ee ce wernt ree OF down to 31.00 15, the lovest oint, Pittsburgh penobex Doe (On Loa | The bottom was res &1,88 but soon dropned to. 2 was me intained throuch the rema 4s more than before the war. Tera AY Sd VON oe (Sentember., Lo) ware thee aoe tre ~ ch the "ups" ereatly vredomifiate, hAne OL sine Wastory or coal prices ed the fluctuations of prite by the United War Industries. Board he price’ of cll bituminous oal declined from $1.3 and Mover RL eit tae eho ONE Ea Rhee AON Gb aU) Re eo As cp eo aye ot through) 1L9i4 of Lx ched between Hav and Lugust, ton. Somerset coal started nYice of about TRAM MOE Ww howe ke Le ar: 3h, io being rozn¢hed in Nove) VZ ec 7" ber OM m Cu Na avcin S Quip States Geological pamohlets Coa It 1s rae 9 in sui an from Lo.15 Zh until orn, Many Will dovbtless wisk tiat they had hed s torage facilities to lay in suppl a0al will ne product and Sup: est or their 1 1g low, oi Les “for the r ver again be sold many people find it diif power 1¢cu probable that coal ig a bulky even one ivyes,.as it is Unfortunstely , 1t to accomodate commenies have storace room winter's vo hae For oniy a few days! or « few tend to deteriorate in size, people had attempted to store Soon would have raised the px while many large weelts! YTegEerve,. LT Notoin: avalitvy.. Coa. “tor the. future Tite: Then, too: most coals Resides, if meanv he inerecsed demand. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Alternates https://archive.org/details/effectofwaronpri00ashl_0 5 Towerd the end of 1915 business began to revive and prices’re- sponded, so that by Jonucry, 1916, Pittsburgh coal rose to $1.58, but dropoed to 31,23 in April. Mlesrficld coal rose to 3oe009, but de- olined to $1.16 in June, Somerset and Cambria rose to 32.79 but by June and muly, 1916, went dowm to 31,38. Then in Ausust came the cry Tor coal and prices beran to soar and continved goings up until in Bebruary and March, 1917, the pinnacle was reached, Pittsburgh coal reached 75.21, its highest price, in Pebrucry, 1917. In March, 1917, Clearfield cocl reachet $5.16 and Somerset ond Cambrie coal. recehed “5,48, Wext came the conference in Washincton in June =t which time prices were 34.9% Yor Pittsburch cocl, vou ror Cileeriield and 39411 for Cambria and Somerset. At that conference sweeping reductions were agreed to and the new, or "Peabody", prices prevailed through July ane iueust. Phese ron 3.25 for wittsdburch cocl; from 53.46 to $3.74 for Clegrraela Coal i ond tron 5,504 to sol for) Cambrin and Somerset coal. ~ * In phy beMie Ty 1917, ‘the government took hold, through the Fuel Acministrator, sand the Presicent announced new prices for Pennsyl- Wonie. Witch ran 32.00 tor Clearfield, Combria and. $ man eet coals, and $2.01 for Pittsburgh coal, In November an increase of 45¢/ a ton was allowed to cover an increase in wages to the miners, | It wes soon seen that the coals of the so-called thin-vein dis- trice of Cleerfield, Cambria and Somerset. counties could not be mined at »rices cuoted and in Novemher an