Show COAL PROFITEERS TO BE UNCOVERED Fair Price Commissioner to Work With Attorney General GeneralI I In accord with the decision of or A A. A Mitchell Palmer United States attorney general to inaugurate a drive on bituminous coal profiteers James W. W Funk federal fall faiz price commissioner for Utah has been asked to turn over overto overto overto to Isaac Blair Evans United States district attorney an any Information that may come to his office relative to profiteering in coal In Utah A letter from rom c B. B Ames assistant to Mr tr Palmer indicates It Is tho the desire of or the tho department of or Justice that fair price commissions do not extend their activities to include profiteering profiteering- in coal The department asks however that the commission call to tho the attention atten atton- tion of or the United States attorney any instance of profiteering profiteering- in coal that ma may come to its notice in in order that the district attorney ma may carr carry out his instructions Considerable Investigation of ot the general features of the coal situation in Utah and of or the tho coal prices prevailing prevailing prevail prevail- ing Ins especially In Salt Lake had been carried on by Mr Ir Funk and a a. report rt on this so 50 far as completed was turned over o to Mr Evans E yesterday Further r Inc Increases ns Imminent Dt Press dispatches quote Mr rr Palmers Palmer's instructions to tho United States attorn attorn at- at torn ys s as saying that complaint has haJ been received that bituminous coal coat prices at the tho mines now range e from 7 to 11 a 3 ton ton with a further increase imminent I ni rn I n C n I. I In Utah so 50 far tar as the tho Carbon county fields are re concern concerned cd the price of run of mine coal at the mines is a aton aton ton tOil and of or lump coal Including do domestIc domestic do- do lump it is 54 50 a no ton The Tho price of oC nut coal corl is i. i Slack coal coat is sold at 2 5 at the tho mine Evidence to this effect was placed before tho the public utilities commission commission com corn mission yesterday by coal mining mining- companies companies com corn panics opposing interference with the power contracts between them and the Utah Power Light company compan I r Irl Cited Tho The Utah mine prices reached this h level cl June 1 At the beginning of ot tho the present year the tile prices were for Cor lump and nut coals CO and for tor slack coal The corresponding 1914 1 or be before before before be- be fore the war prices were for Cor lump for Cor nut L 5 screened slack and 1 for common slack |