Show O ONE J PUZZLING J G l PROBLEM nO We Vo confess the tine coal problem In Jn Salt SnIt Lake is Big Dig dealers tell their cash customers men customers men who have been buying of them and regularly paying paying- promptly prompt prompt- ly that ly-that that the they can not fill orders within three weeks And yet it is perfectly well wen known to citizens that the they can get coal of the sm small dealers whose places of business are arc aya away from the city's s They have to pay twenty five cents a ton above the market price in the tho big big- offices s but that Is not an ob ob- ob- ob They would gladly pay that advance anywhere realizing that conditions rna may make the raise sa sary 1 But why should a little dealer in the suburbs be beable beable beable able to fill orders when the shippers themselves declare they can not supply a customer Inside of or three weeks It is an additional imposition to demand pay in advance advance advance ad ad- vance on that very uncertain contingency The demand for the price of coal that may not be delivered in three weeks weeks which which Indeed can not be assured even at th the expiration of or that time Is time Is not fair Customers have no objection at all to pa paying on the delivery dellver of or the coal But Dul one of the puzzling puzzling- details is this demand that the public supply the companies with capital on which to transact a business In which the public Is li so vitali vitally In Interested interested In- In and yet et can not In the slightest control There are some ome things in fn this world that study doe doc not determine dete But this ability of little dealers dealer's to supply i q trade trae which big dealer confess themselves Incapable of supplying Is one of the most stubborn |