Show COAL FOR POWER TO I 1 IAN att COP t bat CONTRACTS TS authority to cancel contracts made some time ago at low rates v with I 1 ith large consumers is asked b by y the coal operA operators ors of utah as the only way to equalize the lower prices zet jr lots by bybe the coal body beaded headed by dr H A gar field seconding j to state meota made to gentlemen geat lemen in a document presented to him by senator W 11 king and representative M H welling of this state the docu ment was prepared and forwarded by the coal cokl men of utah who ho now furnish fuel to idaho nevada C ilif ornia oregon washington and montana as well sell as to all utah of this tonnage carbon a count county mines furnish 90 percent the statement meat which is self explanatory follows follos it in part there is now no a fuel famine through out all of these states this situation is aggravated b the fact that the union pacific coal company has now with withdrawn draNn entirely from th commercial market this fuel uel f ea famine will glow in intensity as the war approaches at the pre present bent time a largo large proportion of the threshers in the wheat fiela are unable to ope ritte because of lack of fuel no sugar factory throughout this territory is with enough fuel for use and through a large pirt of the territory mentioned nod no coal whatever is aa available ilabe it is therefore essential that aery mine in i utah be operated at its full follst st capacity and that the output be property distributed heretofore the mines of utah have hae received a scLe schedule dule of prices price for their product ranging aiom 75 cents per ton for slack to about 3 50 pei ton for lump before the wai ai began the mines had very ery gent gem ralli entered into contract furni furnishing hing a large proportion of their tonnage at prices much below the schedule published b the president these prices now prove to be inadequate since the presidents proclamation they are lire bibid d from the prepared clude tade ka known hown as lump coal at the prices the have been reemi receiving ing labor is receiving higher wages and mining machiner is costing three times aa much as before the war powder is more expensive and the producers stati stat tha that if it they are prevented from fit fn g orders at prices higher thai tha those published bi the president pies ident but ore nee at the same time compelled under contract to fill orders at prices much lower than the baid haid schedule they will ill not be able to operate their mines except at great loss something like 80 per cent of their products is sold in advance for the coming year either eithe i r under contract or by standing accepted orders the producers are willing and anxious to comply with sith the law they isk ask that in camj case they are preen prevented ted from filling the standing orders for lump coal at brics above the schedule published by bj the president by the same autler aull or ity they should be relieved of the auty of filling contracts at prices beloy loy the schedule ad advisable visible under it would w appear the circumstances that the presidents edict be made duplicable dp to all producers produce ra and to all consumers coni consumers umers and that all contracts made before the war conditions condition s onta contained ined be ib under the wa war powers of i the prest president dent I 1 these contracts are not only op p dessive conditions but are also 1 to the public interest in the fact that they prevent an all equit able distribution of loal 1 man corporations are sec securing coal in large quantities below cost of production I 1 at the expense Ex apen Pente se of small CL cm n I 1 dumus while whole communities are deprived of necessary fuli sonn soni of larger cons mera gerbl have cunti acts co ering u ab much as a half million tons tone per year ear and if obliged to submit to the proper lib dib trib ution of the tuel supply bould add to the total output ba b up new mines in thi to provide for their own oun necessities this would tend to relieve the coal coal famine all calling for either higher or lower loser thin the presidents published publish Ld behe schedule dule shoud should be abrogated in the public interest inte iest should be no consumers public interest demanda mand chete should be no tio dis crimination in prices against the small consumer in tavor tor of the coi |