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Show - CANNOT MEET DEBTS FIGHT OH CARBON DISTRICT COAL RATES TAKEN Concern With House In Price ing Hard Sledding. TO THE NATIONS CAPITA! On behalf of the coal operators of Utah II. W. Pricket t of Salt Lake City . during the argument of the Western oal rates ia.e before the interstate commerce commission Thursday and Friday of last week at Washington, D. C. entered protest against the report of Examiner Pattison and attacked the differentials suggested by him as unduly discriminatory against Utah and unjustly favorable to the iniues of W Wyoming coal interests which were represented by a local attorney; the Union Pacific, through J. T. Sou-bMontana coal producers, and producers of Washington state in turn assailed the rejiort of Pattiaon, but from different angles, the Wyoming ojiera-tr- s inaintaiuing that the differentials against I'tuh eoal pro; arced by the examiner were tK small, whereas Pricket t contended they were too great. The Zion attorney in his argument claimed the Union Pacifir is trying to put in Utah coal undue differentials Prickett speared qiSrifirally for the Cameron Coal, Carbon Fuel, Independent Coal and Coke, the Peerless Coal, Spring Canyon Coal and the Standard Coal companies. Saturday last before the argument closed he had half an hour to make reply to the Wyoming operators and the Union Pacific. In this proceeding all contending interests appear to lie combined against the producers of Utah, while the Wyoming operators have the Union Pacific squarely hack of them in their fight. Cites Northwest Rates. Outlining his rase to the commission Prirkett said the Utah oierators are looking to the commission for rates to Oregon Short lane end Railroad and Navigation stations in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington and to Southern Pacific stations in Oregon south of Portland that are no higher than rates eontem- in effect from the Rock gitraueously of mines in Wyoming. They want rates to points in Nevada and California and to points in Utah north, west and south of Ogden, including Ogden, that are lower than Tatea to those same points from Wyoming fields unless the differentials against the Utah minea in favor of Hock Springs mines to Oregon Short Line points and beyond are removed. They ask rates to Portland and Seattle that will enable Utah operators to market their coal at those points in competition with waterborne coals. They ask natory through and joint rates to Northern Pacific and Milwaukee stations west of Butte. The Utah operators also ask for differentials to Oregon and Washington similar to those in effect prior to August 26, 1920, that enable Utah to compete with Washington state and British Columbia coal, and with wood used for fuel, anil in conclusion ask for the establishment of rates from Utah mines on nut and alack that are proper differentials under the rates on lump to all points in. California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington to which through r rates are now in efy; Oregon-Waah-ingt- non-discri- fect Grouping la Assailed. Taking np the report of Examiner Pattison, Prickett assailed the districts, which he declared, would-bprejudicial to Utah mines. The examiner concluded that the Consolidated Fuel ease cannot be deemed controlling and that a differential in excess of twenty-fiv- e cents should lie required. Prickett contended that the greatlv improved o)erating conditions of the Denver and Rio Grande Western .justify to a great extent, if not entirecents ly, the removal of the twenty-fiv- e differential against Utah mines in favor of Rock Springs. Since the decision of the Consolidated Fuel ease, Prickett said, the oerating conditions have materially changed. Coal from Utah mines destined to Oregon Short Line territory and beyond is now deli evered to the Short line at Salt Lake City in solid trainloads. By reducing its grade west of Soldier Summit the Denver and Rio Grande Western has enabled one locomotive to haul three times the tonnage westbound that was Tiauled hefory the improvement. He showed by exhibits that a much greater tonnage of coal moves to Oregon Short line points and beyond from the Utah lines than from Southern Wyoming. This condition 1ms changed completely since 1911, when the Kemmrr-e- r and Rock Spring mines shiped to Short line territory 577,774 tons of coal, while the Utah mines shipped hut 134,630. In 1920 shipments from Wyoming had declined to 109,461 tons and Utah had increased to 1,113,038 tons.. Difficulties Are Offset. Difficulties in moving coal traffic via the Denver and Rio Grande Western from Castle Gate to Soldier Summit, Prickett said, are considerably more than offset by the more favor-Kem-mer- er eifie and the Wyoming oeratnrs that the average tonnage handled per locomotive mile over tlir Denver and 1ti. Grande Western westbound from Castle Gate compared unfavorably with an equidistant haul westbound toward to the Northwest have greatly dhnin- West. lie jIXTBlI ill I VT quoted the testimony of F. iv Is Hav- Consolidated Wagon and Machine company with a district branch house several points UTAHN MAKES TELLING TALK in this city and stocks at throughout Eastern Utah is in trouble. BEFORE COMMISSION Owing to general depressed financial conditions D. prevailing and particularWASHINGTON, C, Feh. 17. the Closing arguments were heard today ly among agriculturists and to liefore the interstate commerce com- fact that the concern has been to a mission on the Western coal rate cases. large degree financed by Salt Lake Summed up the Wyoming operators City individuals, a situation has been made an appeal for a differential of created which has obliged the comiwuv cents against Utah eoal to ask its numerous creditors to exeighty-fiv- e and the Union Pacific urged a differ- tend their claims. Says last Saturdays ential of at least fifty cents, the fig- ure proposed by Examiner Pattison. H. W. lriekett, for the Utah ojwrators, made reply to both the Wyoming operators and the Union Pacific this afternoon, stressing further the points he made yesterday, and hammered home the fact that Utah ran ship more tons of coal er locomotive miles from the tilities to McCammon than can the Wyoming mines to the same ioint, from which fact he contended that Utah operators should not be penalized be- - they have better transportation facilities. lie also stressed the point that Utah eoal is now moving in solid trainloads not in occasional carloads and, moving in bulk, is entitled to the benefit of the lower rate, lie maintained that the recommendations of Pattison are not supported by the facts of the case, and made his plea for rates on Utah roal no higher than those from Itock Springs, Wyo, A. Sweet and W. II. Rolapp on showing that the Utah and Wyoming coals, while differing in character and about on a parity so far aa the market is concerned, should both take equal rates. He also cited the testimony of a man named Dye, who had said one reason for increased use of Utah coal in the West waa the failure of the Wyoming operators properly to premre their coal, and, in some rases, was due to their charging higher prices. Utah operators should not be penslized in rates if Wyoming operators do not use as much care in preparing their eoal for the trade or if the Wyoming mine operators charge higher prices. Are Extremely Unjust. The differentials proposed by Examiner Pattiaon against Utah mines in favor of Southern Wyoming were objected to by Prickett as being unwarranted, and extremely unjust to Utah oierators. Pattison projioBed differentials against Utah roal of fifty cents to McCammon, forty cents to Butte, thirty rents to Huntington and twenty-fiv- e to Portland and Spokane. Such differentials, if established, would result injuriously to the Utah ojierators and to the consuming public, and he quoted Sweet as having testified that : During times when jhere is a strong demand for fuel the. ultimata consumers pay that differential. It is passed on to the public. When competition is fierce and margins are small the roal rouiianies of Utah are compiled to absorb that differential Grouping the Roek Springs and the Kemmerer districts, aejiarated by a distance of miles and comsming the ninety-thre- e average distance therefrom in arriving at a relatively reasonable relation in the rates as between Rock Springs and the Utah fields, Ickett argued, either nearer points of destination or moved n miles furthe Utah mines ther away, and placing the Utah fields at such a disadvantage would tie obviously unjust. To remove this discrimination the rate to McCammon from the Kemmerer district would lie about cents lower than from the twenty-fiv- e Roek Springs district. In concluding his argument Prickett contended that rates to Missouri river and intermediate territory from the Utah mines should not exceed by more than a dollar the rates applicable from the Rock Springs mines, which is half the differentials suggested by Examiner Pattison. Colorado and New Mex ico operators represented by A. L. Vogel, opened the hearing with an argument for reduction in present rates be tween the Central Colorado territory in Washington, Oregon and Montana. On all this traffic, Vogel asserted, the railroads are getting excessive rates, while the Colorado producers are deprived of an opportunity to compete with the coal mined in other Western States. forty-seve- Don't borrow The Bun. Subscribe. Salt Lake Tribunt: Local bankers and creditors interested and w'ho are acquainted with the facta have been aked to consent to administer the affairs of the company until the situation clears u. The committee selected eousists of Lafayette lfaurhet, president Utah Power and Light eonqiany; Stephen A. Lowe, gen era! sales manager of the Sugar roiuiaiiy, and Burton F. Peek, vice president John Deere company. The company has approximately five millions of dollars in assets, of which four millions are h t notes, accounts and merchandise. The liabilities are approximately $2,000,000. It is believed the liquidation of assets, while requiring time and patience, should be accomplished without loss to creditors. A liquidation plan providing for equitable payment of all debts will be formulated and presented to creditors by the committee as soon aa possible. 4 6 & FRIDAY, Spring Canyon Buy Home Products Coal Co. EUECO A QUALITY BATTERY Now Being Sold In Five Western States Utah, Idaho, Miners and Shippers Celebrated Nevada, Wyoming and Colorado. of tfel Spring Canyon Coal Mines et STORKS, UTAH. General Offices, 817 Ntwhow Building. 8slt Lake City, Utah, I 1 Utah-Iduh- o OWNERS OF CARS NOW AWAITING ACTION ON BILLS Unless quick action is taken on the two compensation bills reducing auto- mobile license fees and establishing a tax of two and a half rents a gollon on gasoline there will be some forty-eight DUNGS 1 I Company SOL.1I BY Manager. Eastern Utah Electric Co. PROFESSIONAL Wholesale and Retail Auto and Electric Supplies near-Arct- semi-tropic- DR. R. M. JONES Physician and Safgeon Obstetrics and Diseases of Chilis I Office, SUvagni Block, Price, io al UUt I DR. J. A. JUDY Physician and Surgeon Telephone lllw Office Price Commercial end Bart Bank Bldg., Price, Utah. DR. L 8. EVANS Demist Office, Rooms 1 New Redd Blit The soy bean can be grown successPRICE, UTAH fully with corn and is becoming a very DR. H. B. GOETZMAN popular crop, as it can be hogged down Dentist and helps to balance the ration. It can be grown on a wide range of soils, but Work and Extraction. Pit inoculation is necessary when it is Commercial Rank Bldg., Price, CM United the grown the first time, says DR. SANFORD BALXJNSB States department of agriculture. The Demist hay from this crop contains a high percentage of protein and is palatable. Service. This plant adds a great deal to the Office, the New Redd Building with value of silage when it is grown PRICE, UTAH Bilage corn. STEWART, ALEXANDER A PRffl Attorneys At Daw of all kinds. The Bun. Rubber 7-- L X-R- X-R- sy sumps CHILDRENS SPRING COATS CONTINUE TO STRESS THE SIMPLE STYLES nr nrevei Office, Second Floor Silvagnl Rulldlng PniCE, UTAH Carbon an Tt Plaint! tzator f FERDINAND ERICKSEN Attorney At Low 717 Judge Building BALT LAKE CITT. UTAH. L. A. McGEE Attorney At Law Rooms S and I, SUvagni Bldg , f PRICE, UTAH VERNAL ASPHALT MAT BE LAID ON BASIN ROADS OLIVER K. CLAY Attorney At Law Exjteriments with asphalt taken from a mountain near Vernal, with a view to its utilization for road construction, are being conducted under the suiter- vision of Howard C. Means, atate road engineer. A federal aid project which contemplates the construction of a highway from Vernal to Duchesne will be made np of a combination of this material with gravel, if the asphalt can be used economically just as it is now found. Means is attempting to get a combination which may be utilized at a small expense and which will meet with the approval of the federal government,' so that local materials may be had for surfacing. According to experimental plans, a four-inc- h gravel base will be laid, covered by a h wearing snrfare of gravel and asphalt It will be attempted to produce this latter combination at a cost not to exceed that of gravel for the wearing surface. Office, Room . SUvagni UTAH Butldlni-PRICE- HENRY RUGGERI Attorney At Lew ' Office et the County Courthoma PRICE, UTAH B. W. DALTON Attorney At Law Office at the County Courthouse PRICE, UTAH A. nigh-Grad- Sf To 1 1 I HOFFS STUDIO Telephone The devil has many friends who do not care to recognize him in pnhlie. , Portraits and Enlarge; e Second Floor Price Commercial end Savings PRICE, UTAH J. D. FLYNN Licensed Undertaker and Embalmer two-inc- ' Bs It. PRICE, UTAH BEN BEAN General Painting Contractor Phone 188m. PRICE, UTAH AEE COKERS MOHKLAXD, Feb. 21. The Mohrland basketeers have been unusually successful this season. They have nut only won from all the high school teams in the local division, but they also defeated the Muab high Friday at that town. Playing a seleeted team from Huntington, the Mohrland hoopstere won bv a to thirty-fiv- e. wore of fifty-fiv- e They also defeated the Carbon high of Price. By JULIA BOTTOMLEY The Carbon team is in lead in the Eastern high school division hoop league. While the fancy of the designer of All three mentioned games were played on three successive days. The score : MOHRLAND HUNTINGTON children's clothes lightly turns to the thoughts of spring and he busies himself only with things for the new season ahead, the weather man continues to band out a brand of temperature that discourages a belief in spring. But designers have a good record them. Their coats for children and misses are above criticism this winter and now is a good time to inlie-hi- MOAU ,? J. WILBUR BURNHAM PRICE, UTAH AMT mu I About our hlghgrnde flour right here et Price from Carte II amt Emery county wheat, ng biscuits and min" bread wf I put any stomach out of basis II In time. The beat remedy- preventative ia to use only tb II best flour, muh an "Pride of tfc Valley.1 If your dealer hasn't 1 order from the mllL Fanners Mill and fievata Largest Institution of Its Kind Between the Rockies and the Wasatch COAL CAMP BOYS DEFEAT ME HOUSEWIVES thousand lawbreakers in Utah right after March 1st. With the exception of about two thousand automobile owners, moat of whom have either bought new ears or renewed in Utah foreign licenses, Secretary of State Crockett announced laBt Saturday that no application for automobile licenses have been received. Last vear fifty thousand were issued and this year the number is expected to exceed this amount. Even after the bills are either defeat- The agricultural experiment stations ed or passed it will require at least some twenty-fiv- e states are studyof is work to of thirty days perform the suing licenses. to determine of varieties wheat ing This condition is brought about be- those best to the adapted regions in cause there is no legislation authoriswhich they are located. Widely differing a refund of any part of the license fee in case it ia reduced when the gas- ing conditions are included the oline tax ia put on. If an automobile in Alaska and the owner now paid the present fee be in Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia; would through the law become subject mountain fields in Pennsylvania and to the gasoline tax. lie might later on the prairies of Kansas and Nebraska; through court action get a refund of lands nnder cultivation for very many the difference between the present fee years, as in Virginia and New York, and that stipulated in the pending law and practically virgin soils in some of a difference amounting to about 50 the Western States. per cent. This ia a question, however, according to officials. Last year no attempt was made to atop automobile owners operating cars for about fifteen days after March 1st, when the applications on hand were cleaned up by the secretary of states office. Immediately following definite action on these hills that office expects an unprecedented rush. - this d;d not indicate a decline in the Wyoming industry, but merely that they were seeking other markeis. and eited testimony in the case which show " FRIDAY, FEBRUARY THE SUE. PRICE, UTAH EVERY FBZDAT. PAGE SIX vest in them for present and for future use, for the holidays are past and merchandise must be closed out. Models for little girls are made of warm, durable and attractive materials, nearly all of them cut on straight lines to be worn with or without a belt. Fur, in collars or in bandings on collar and cuffs, is as universally used as on coats for grownups. For children they are of the inexpensive sorts and the plainer fabric furs or woven furs are liked for them. As a decorative feature nothing is quite so well thought CANNON h FETZER Architects Temnleton Building. SALT LAKE CITT, UTAH Members of American Institute of Architects. lOt-SO- R of as plaits with box plaits in the lead on coats for juniors. A little simple embroidery, a tew buttons and occasionally a sleeve Somewhat fancier than the plain coat sleeves are allowed on models where the element of style is murh considered and narrow latent leather belts and a very snappy touch as shown in the coat pictured. This pretty affair is fastened with two round buttuni at the neck and is decorated with groups of small plaits. The sleeves are full and shaped into a narrowed cuff. A saucy felt hat with trimming of narrow ribbon and m tops off this smart coat. For girls from 8 or 9 years to their plain straight coats, often decorated with box plaits, are popular. The body of thi garment is often set on to a yoke. Fancy stitching in sim-- . pie designs usually provides the ornamentation that is sparingly used on them. They are nearly all provided with fur collars that may be brought up about the throat in cold weather and fastened with a button. chin-stra- p mid-teen- s, J. W. nAMMOND, LICENSED RTRACTER OB TITLES i Abstracts of title furnished to piece or tract In Eastern Utah. F Insurance written In the best cnmpj: nlea. Real estate, bonds, etc. Secow ' floor SUvagni Bldg., Price, Utah. ' PRICE LODGE No. 52. L 0. 0. F. PRICE, UTAn Meets each Wednesday evening 7:30 o'clock. J. O. Whltford, N G.;C M. Lovell. V. G.; E. R. Niles. Sec'T- . E. ARAMAKI 1 T , Best Japanese Merchandise of Every Description Catering to the trade o the residents of the local coal camps end eurrounding territory. GET OUR QUOTATIONS Concrete Building, South Ninth Street, Price, Utah. ' Your small boy knows a lot abetf radios. His dad has it yet to lean. - |