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Show COAL $3.50 . 'AT BANK ' Uinta Basin" Operators Put On All the Traffic: Will Stand. The Uinta basin can have a very sympathetic feeling to ward the fiht being put up by the Salt Lake press against the coal dealers. The situation in this section is even more exaggerated than in other parts of Utah. Consumers are compelled com-pelled to pay at Deep creek and Ashley .vallev, banks' the amazing price of $3.50 n ton. Laid down in Myton it bring the price up to $11.50 The price paid for mining is from $1.00 to. $2.00 per ton, leaving n clear profit to the operator of the banks of from $2.00 to $2.50 per ton. These high figures have only been inaugurated this year. Heretofore the prices ranged from $1.00 to $2.00 per ton at the bank. The reason why the operators are 'able to enforce en-force these extortionate prices, the Record understands, is because be-cause competition has been practically eliminated by a recent action of tbe government govern-ment in not allow ing the working work-ing of any vein on unpatented land. Banks located o n patented claims are very few and the owners therefor have matters their own way, and like outside dealers of the state, against whom such a hue and cry is being raised, they are not slow to grasp the opportunity of enforcing the late Collis Pi Huntington's maxim: "l uf on all the tariff the public will stand." In a competiticn field coal bank operators are glad to realize from 2-" to 50 cents per ton profit. |