Show no CHEAP COAL It must be apparent to everybody hereabouts that the coal monopoly under which Salt Lake City and the surrounding country have eo long groaned ii soon to bo broken This coming event is casting well defined shadows I and the monopolists might as well make up their minds to the inevitable So long SB individuals only profited against the imposition those who hell the coal business in their hands could aflord to kutrh and snap their fingers at any threat to interfere with the trade But things have changed remarkably within the past few months Instead of a few persons talking at random about building railroads and opening new coal fields the community I generally has taken up the mailer and a beginning has actually been made As yet there is a gcoi deal of buncombe in the utterances utter-ances on the subject but there is just enough of enrneatness and solidity about tho antimonopoly movement to 3 convince everybody that something is about to bs done A railroad between this city and CaVinlle ig no longer splken of as a probability proba-bility but is regarded us a possibility of the near future The rnovarnent to bring the Pleasant Valley Val-ley coil into the Salt Like County market is also assuming proportions indicative ot results ono of these days Not a few of thoirfluenti l and moneyed men hers bave manifested substantial sympathy in the project for an independent railroad direct I to the Pleasant Valley ocal fields If some of the county snd municipal organizations can be in I duced to lend their nid the plan will not be long in being put into execution execu-tion It will be seen by a perusal of the minutes of the Legislature yesterday yes-terday that a bill was introduced for authorizing certain counties that t weuld be benefitted by the Utah Eastern road to subscribe to the capital stock of the company com-pany It is said that a similar bill will also be presented in connection with the Pleasant Valley movement All of those straws ought to have their influence upon the present coal monopoly in causing it to become more just if not generous in the treatment of the community L This country is not yet able ID parallel railroad and it should i not be compelled to do so There need be no necessity for more lines railroad than are already here because tho present roads have a i sufficient conveying capacity for the trade New roads will only I bo an unnecessary burden upon the people who must support them how Yar they may bet be-t built whether by popular subscription i I or community funds Tcero should I be no occasion for tying up more capital in railroads alongside of those a already in operation and tho neceE It I j sity ought nct to arise for dividing theft the-ft traffic But it may be set down for rf a fact that this will be done and speedily too unless the Union Pacific t r pursues a different course in its treatment treat-ment of the community The people f have submitted to tbe extortions and 7 I abuses about aa long as they are going I to They am on the eve of epplying the remedy and though tbe etragqle 1 L for relief may be costly at first it will ba undertaken |