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Show PRICE OF COAL ADVANCES TODAY I An announcement which will not come as a jovful oue to the lesidcnts of Ogden is the report that commencing commenc-ing this morning the price of coal will be advanced In this city. Tho price of lump coal will be advanced fifty cents per ton and that of nut coal twenty-five cents per ton. The increased price of coal Is due to the advance which has been made by the Utah Fuel Co. and it Is claimed claim-ed that seventy five per cent of Og-clen's Og-clen's retail coal dealers secure their coal from this company. With this company's selling agents falling Into line practically every dealer In the city will have advanced the price of coal, the other twenty-five per cent, who haudlo Wyoming coal, having been forced to raise the price sometime ago. j The announcement, or the advanced ' price means that hereafter lump coal will tost So 25 per ton Instead of $1.75, the price delivered now bclrn; $6 per ton Nut coal will be. $" in- stead of $1.75 and the price delivered will be $5.75 per ton. There is also an advance of ten cents per ton in the price of mine run, but slack remains re-mains the same. According to the statements of a local coal dealer there is no chance for the local retailer to sidestep the advance from the fact that he will be selling coal at an actual loss if he continues to sell at the old figure. "'And the indications are very favorable favor-able for another advance later on." iuie ior anoiner advance later on, said this same dealer last evening. "The advance in price Is due to a shortage in the supply and the situation situa-tion at tho present time is anything but nattering. The coal dealers realize real-ize the hardships which this advance will work right now at the opening of the season but it could not be avoided.' If such conditions prevail it would not seem to be a bad plan lo lay in that wiivler supply even In the face of the Increased price just announced. |