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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1920 c
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THE COAL SITUATION. ffi
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The coal situation does rot improve.
" The railroads, or some of n
them, are disposed to call the coal
miners black, while the coal miners
1 .return the compliment. Whatever.er
the trouble, and whoever is responsi-j at
ble for the present status, the re-| or
suits to industry and the people gen-;cc
erally are the same?there is no coal.1 w
No doubt the great development of |
the last few years has overtaxed the to
railroads. The roads were in the J111
hands of the government during the^ ce
war period and of eoui-se in that period
there was little expansion in
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equipment. While cms was true wim
the railroads it was not true with V1
business. The high prices offered and
demanded for all kinds of raw and
manufactured products have stimu- ^
lated production everywhere, with Wf
the result that much more freight is
being offered the roads for transpor- ac
tation than heretofore, while the Wi
money received by the people in the ei
way of profits has enabled them to *?
travel around to see the country to P*
an extent not heretofore practiced. ?*
But there are some remedies which
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may be applied. The coal miners .
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say that one of the chler oastacles
* in the way of securing coal cars is
the fact that brokers and speculators
are buying cpal and under the orders
permitting reconsignment of the pi
cars, these cars of coal are being resold
many times before they reach C<
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the ultimate consumer. A car Is
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bought by brokers in Knoxville, we
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in Chattanooga, and is reconsigned
will say, it is .sold to another broker ?
when it reaches Knoxville to the
Chattanooga purchaser. When it C<
?ooa1ioo PViattnnnnfffl it. has been re
sold to an Atlanta broker, and is reconsigned
to him, and tnus the car ^
wends it weary way for weeks, when
if it had been sold directly tj> the ^
person or corporation who actually
uses it finally, the car would have
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reached its destination in ten days,
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been unloaded and well on its way
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back to the mines. In the time it ^
takes to carry it from one reconsign- ^
ment point to another, and then on'xj1
to others, it might have made two or
three trips from the mines to consumers
and thus might have per- ^
formed two or three times as much
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service as it in fact does. ,
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To prevent this waste of carrying ^
capacity the Interstate Commerce nc
Commission has J?n or<^er that mj
? tai v'J cuai can recons?gnea uu.
j)nce after $he initial shipment. This) *V
is good so far as it goes, but the^
coal miners say that there !s no rea-|ge
son for even one reconsrgnment, an
and the original consignee should be m.
forced to unload the coal at its origi-' ^
nal destination, and thus put the car a
back to work for the consumers in-,
stead of making it the instrument of
speculation, and thereby contributing
to the extortionate prices now1
bein? demanded and received for
ccal. If the people are so convinced
they have the privilege of writing to
the Interstate Commerce Commis- m'
sion at Washington complaining bf ?the
practice and asking for a further 8'1
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oraer preventing ana ioruiucung re*
consignments of coal at all. ' te
Anothe^r thing which makes a
scarcity of coal cars is the use of l'1
these cars for hauling-other kinds of
freight than coal. All kinds . of cli
freight' hurrying to its destination
in order that the people may make rt'
a little more profit whiYe me( getting "v
is good is being loaded into these
c-al cars and is being1 carried by
them over the railroads. This praclice
may he forbidden by tne Inter- v/
state Commerce Commission too. h?
The people who buy coal should af
buy from retailers wno ouy airecc -from
the mines or should memselves vv
buy wholesale from the rr.r.ies. The rrpractice
of buying from, brokers is c:
but stimulating them in the effort ^
to corner the coal market and get
jiafits entirely out. of proportion to 11
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hat is reasonable anG Cair. The
ax-keting conditions of the countrj
re responsible for most or our ills
i coal and in cotton, as well as ir
ther things.
A COTTON GRADER.
Mere than seventy men in Abbelie
County have signed an indemity
bond in favor of one of the
inks of this county which is tc
uarantee the payment of, and pay
le salary of a cotton grader to be
;nt here by the United States De>
irtment of Agriculture In connecon
with the proper authorities al
lemscn College. An office is to be
tted up for him iind every facility
ven him for the grading and prop
marketing'of cotton. '
CiJrto /vf Viawnftff rA V*a
ouiiic iuca vi wuc utututo iv ut uv
ved from the employment of a
ader may be had when tne difficules
cf marketing cotton are consided.
At times, as everyone here)outs
knows, there is not more Mian
le or two buyers on the Abbeville
itton market. These men do not
ant fcotton at all times and many
mes will not buy except, wnen cotn
may be had at a sacrifice. Many
mes they are' not in the market for
rtain grades cf cotton at all.
For instance, one day last week a
rmer residing near Abbeville
ought six bales of cotton to Abbelle.
Three bales were of a good
ade and three were of a lower
ade. He was told by the buyer that
e lower grade of cotton was not
mted, but that price of twenty?e
cents was offered. Not .caring to
cept the price offered^ the cotton
as hauled to Greenwood , where
ght cents per pound more was paid
n- the lower grade, and three cents
?r pound more for the iiigher grade
cuikon, ueiuiig me xaxmer someing
more than one hundred and
xty dollars over the price offered
Abbeville.
With a grader here this cotton
ig'.:t have been olTereC 10 ouyers
I over the country, and still higher
rices might have been obtained.
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II that the farmer would do in sucl
ise would be?W>.. write to buyers
sewhere sayinjjtyjtet lie iiail a certin
number of^Hftof one grade, a
;rtain numberap#>ales of anothei
fade, and so oil; jind he might mak<
le sale without having zo naul hi:
)tton to find out what fie might ob
tin in other markets.
Again, the farmers might pool a
undred, or seVeral hundred, bales
I cotton and say to a cotton mill
e will sell you a certain number ol
lies of cotton^of a certain grade
id the trade might be made for the
hole before there is any hauling
shipping. In this way the mil]
ould not be called upon to pay
ir the services of a buyer nor even
a grader for that matter, because
e cotton could be marked by the
ader here, and it would by elemiiting
this expense add it to the price
Fered for the cotton. The mills all
rer the country will be able to sere
an adequate supply of cotton in
is way and the number of buyers
iW employed by the mills can be
aterially reduced, while the broks
can be dispensed with largely
Many other advantages wili sugst
themselves to those vviio read
d think. What we need is better
irketing facilities for cotton, and
e employment of the grader is but
step towards getting results.
AN EXPLANATION DUE.
We don't know who is to blame for
e failure of three of the speakers
appear at the meeting cf the fart;rs
held in the court houstJ yester
: > T>.c committed in charge had
ven notice for the past two weeks
;ic J. A. Evat\s?, director of the exnsicn
work in the Southern States,
VV. Watkins, assistant director of
is work at Clemson College and B.
arris, state commissioner o-f agriilture
would be the three principal
eakers at the meeting. This paper
ceived thy information from what
considered a reliable source and
ivertised the fact that these genemen
would be the main attractions
the Abbeville meeting. But they
ere not present and no explanation
is been forthcoming from anybody
> to why they did not tuinn tneir
igagement here. The farmers who
ent to the trouble to attend the
eeting are at least entitled to an
cplanation from somebody why the
iree "big: guns" were absent. We
ive heard several of the gentlemen
resent at the meeting express them
, selves as feeling that they were at
, least entitled to know why tnese men
. did riot shew up. It's poor policy in
j our opinion to promise people a thing
and then neither give them that thing
nor any explanation why tlie promise
was not fulfilled.
J. J. DARLINGTON'S ESTATE
VALUED AT HALF MILLION
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( T>.e National Savings and Trust!
company, Annie C. Darlington, and!
, Elizabeth D. Simpson, executors of I
th$ estate of the late Joseph J. Dar-j
lington, prominent lawyer, who died |
. last month, today filed a petition fori
( the probate of his will. Mr. Darling-J
t ton left an estate valued at $500,000!
consisting of $335,000 personal prop-|
erty and real estate worth $165,000.;
By his will, dated November 24J
[ 1916, arid modified by codicil of
. January 28, 1920, he provided sun.'dry
personal and charitable bequests
amounting to over $40,000, j
and in addition to annuities created
by the will. Mr. Darlington left the {
; residue of his estate to the National;
. Savings and Trust company in j I
, trust, to pay one-half of the income j I
to each of his two daughters, Miss P
Annie C. Darlington and Mrs. [g
Elizabeth D. Simpson, during their j
lives, together with such of the,
principal of his residuary estate as |
may be reasonably necesary for the
maintenance, support, comfort, best j
interests and happiness of them or j
of those dependent upon or claim- j
ing under them.?Washington Star. J
, NITRATE OF SODA
KILLS FOUR HOGS
John Turner, a farmer living at
Helena has learned something about
nitrate of soda that he thinks he
ought to tell his fellow farmers.;
Two days the first of last week he j
; was engaged in putting tT?&- nitrate j
in his fiells to make the crops i
grow. He was in his shirt sleeves j
; while at work, wearing one shirt the!
first day and another shirt next
, day. Friday, Mrs. Turner put the
i shirts in a tub containing about 15
i gallons of water, left them to soak
. awhile, and then wrung them out.
, She turned the tub over to let the
water' run out. Some of it ran into a
? pen where there were four hogs?
5 three of them shoats weighing about
- 150 pounds. They all drank of the j
, water, and all were dead in 30 [
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illlllUUCO. iUi* X 14A.WA4J. WMJW ??.
; not have taken $75 for the sow.?
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when a dollar will be worth a hundn
has the dollars then, will be on "eas
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