Show Good Wagon Roads Will Solve the Coal Rate Question The following bulletin was sen to the Utah Independent by tin Commercial Club Traffic Bureau has been stated in bulletins issued from this the railroads directly en in the transportation of thi traffic of Utah have positively re all appeals for the establish ment of reasonable rates for th hauling of COAL for the people oi this It has also been that the Denver Rio Grande Railroad company actually con the rates of transportation for the COAL supply of this as it also does for various others of the principal cities of the as well as many of the important section of the state The principal producing COAL mines of the state are situated either directly upon or closely adjacent to the lines of that The supply of COAL within the state accessible thereto is virtually both unlimited and in-i The Rio Grande Railroad company therefore essentially possesses a monopoly in the transportation of that native and hence is made the especial object of consideration in this movement for reasonable rates The transportation of under the excessive rates constitutes the most profitable single feature of the great and constantly growing traffic of that railroad within the as it has from its advent therein as a narrow gauge line in Rates Are Too That the transportation rates in coal are loo high we all but what are we going to do about A railroad commission will not solve the Railroad Commissions Are a Pennsylvania has a railroad Coal at the mines in Pennsylvania is per in miles from the it is What good are the commissioners except as an expense to the Only One Sure There is only one sure and proper solution to high priced t coal in Salt Lake City and the b state of and is good wagon Good coal is found in abundance within 80 miles of s Salt Lake the lay of the i land is down grade all the way from these mines to Salt Lake 3 A Traction The other day a common trac- f tion engine drew 48 tons of I besides two large lumber wagons loaded with eight miles over a common dirt l in Bear River some of the distance being slight- ly UP There are millions of tons of good coal in mines north of Pleasant in Sanpete owned by private That coal is very cheap the With a good dirt road laid at a grade from those mines to Spanish Provo and Salt Lake a common traction engine would draw from to tons of coal at a load at the rate of 3 miles per With a macadam road it could haul double the and with flat steel rails it could easily draw tons at a good Utah Needs Good Utah needs such and she needs them They would pay for themselves in one year on coal With such roads the the and everyone else could tell the railroads to go the coal would be delivered where it was it could be hauled the mines at the price we are now paying to haul it from the depot or coal With a good road from Salt Lake City to Bear River valley the present railroad on farm products would be reduced per cent and the rate on merchandise to Bear River vay-ley would be cut in The exorbitant amount of money that is paid to the railroad every year on coal and the amount of time and money spent in killing horses and breaking wagons trying to haul merchandise and produce over miserable roads would build and equip an electric railroad to our coal stoned J long roads and wade t Plow stones and go over 13 and quagmire J square corners to are going-to pay the railroads and J ance and Railroads When railroads were but little brains were They were coT up hill and down and ar save The first rd were a big the hoop iron to the rails-t the solid iron rail took of the and the hoop gradually the steel rail and the oC Railroads Well Locate The road bed was and brought to a grade t the cost of land t it took or the building to move or the had to be tunneled or them If the railroads had it made any more improvement the wagon road builders b they would still be using tic wooden the dinky i would go over hills and fa ravines and around i the people of Salt Lake have to pay pur ton freight coal from Rock in of the present price of Wagon Roads The wagon roads of the we states as a whole are than they were a few years i As the farms have been k they have compelled the fl roads to follow the section around over hills' through swamps and save Good Fair samples of criminal ness in diverting the the straight and level ew save land can be seen W Fountain Green and Mt R from Salina to esp south of ft phi to about ten miles Jk The Worst of The road on the 9 Malad valley from jS and the ton to Weston on west t have been changed straight and level and 1 steep till today crooked and hilly that a snake's back if to follow the road try any speed- proper of land greed and land hatred to the traveling J as high as the Colossus of jh L should be placed along and names of the 4 and the road made the diabolical of location should be A-aT on them in letters of leal so that the rising could see them aud be kf The Only Ike most the surest the quickest way to bring the to terms on freight is good wagon roads and which would th A it one-third the price we are Ma paying and still make big ra How to Do It at one would object but the if the state of Utah bond itself for one million 3 and build a wagon or an road from Salt Lake City tie mines in Sanpete save on every ton and that Pay fr the road V. 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