Show DEALERS AWAIT 1 RAISE BY MINES MINES' i Will ViII Make lake No Advance l in Coal Prices Until Cost Is Advanced l on Them TheIn SUIT MAY l BE FILED Traffic Service Manager I Prepares Data for I. I C. C C. C in to Rates Retail coal dealers declared yesterday yesterday yester ester dR day that tho they will hold no meeting meeting- to consider an Increase In the price of ot coal and It was WI added that prices will remain unchanged so lon long as coal coat can be purchased at tho the mine at the present pros pres ent wholesale quotations general attitude It seems to be the tho of or healers dealers to wait walt for tor the mines to put up the price which we wo hope will vill not bo be the case said II It S. S Lewis manager of ot the Marsh Coal company compan With an a advance at me tue mine we win Will nave 10 ro raise prices but hut tho the Increase will not come until we are arc unable to get coal from coal mining companies at the present figures Hal V. W. manager of ot the thc Utah Traffic Service bureau let It be bo known last night that ho has lias been en engaged engaged en- en for one month In preparing complaints complaints com corn plaints for tor the Interstate commerce commission slon against coal carrying railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads In Utah He says aYs that he will willbe willbo bo be able to show that coal rates are discriminatory and prevent Utah coal mining companies from entering entering- the open marl market et In fair competition with the coal companies of ot other otier states slates Mr Ir said that he was wag preparing pre pro paring the complaints in behalf o of tho the Standard Coal company the Independent Independent Independent dent Coal Coke company the Spring Canyon Canon Coal company tho the Cameron Coal company compan and the Castle Gate Coal Coa co company compan rn pan y Hates It was explained by Mr 11 that tha Utah and Wyoming coal mining mining- companies com com- panics arc nrc desirous of ot entering into competition with British Columbia coa coal mining companies In the South Amer- Amer lean trade but are unable to do so BO on account of or high trel freight il t tariff to San Francisco He Hc showed that coal In may maj mayhe a bo he shipped to Portland from Utah am and Wyoming coal mines for a ton while the tariff on the tho shorter haul to San Francisco Is 15 a ton On account of ot the shortage in coal i it itIs itis Is reported that two o of the furnaces o othe ot of the International Smelting company a t I Tooele have havo been closed and that the schools at Morgan Utah and Mime Arimo Ida have ha found it necessary to sue aus pend The labor shortage In the coal fields field of ot Wyoming Is said b by the Short Shor Line to be bo chiefly re responsible for th the scarcity of ot coal in Idaho and Montana a. Reports received at the Short Line of ot- ot ices flees yesterday were to tho the effect that tha there were plenty plent of or cars at the Wyoming Wyo Wyo- 0 ming mines for tor loading but that the mines could not get got the men to get ou out the coal coat The scarcity of ot labor In the Utah coa coal coalfields fields Is not so noticeable as in the Wyoming fields Mines In Carbon county county coun coun- ty tv have havo sufficient help to keep them then running full time If It the railroads can furnish h cars A number of ot mines in inthe inthe inthe the Utah field were short of ot labor a athe at atthe atthe the te beginning o of the coal shipping period tho the miners leaving for tor eastern castern fields The greater part have hae returnee returned and are arc only working four tour and five i days a week |