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Show An Increase of a million tons of coal In the production In Utah Is expcUed by operators In tl, according to Krederlck A. Hwcet, president of the Htnndnrd Conl company of Halt take City. This Increased production, which will run the total In Utah to five millions for the )enr, Is due to the demand for Utah coal In tho Pacific Northwest nnd California nnd nlso to the rtlmulatlnn of nnd addition to Industries In-dustries In Utah mid Idaho. The new potash factory In Houthern Utah, commencing operation tho first of April, will consume from fifteen hundred hun-dred to eighteen hundred tons of slack n dav. Kstlmntliig the consumption nt seven hundred thousand tons fur the year nt one dollar n ton seven hundred hun-dred thousand dollars ensh will be turned otcr to the coal Industry from this source nlune nnd from it product much of which has been wnsted In tho pnst. With the ImreAse In the total production of coal thn companies do not fear nuy Inability to furnish the slack required, although under plesent condition the demand might exceed the supply. |