Show THE COAL QUESTION The Ordinance Will Surely Raise the Prices Mayor Baskin I Advised by the Coal Dealers to Withhold His Signature from the Document Under the new coal ordinance it will bo advisable to burn wood In fact it will save you money if you use rosewood polished pol-ished mahogany rare old walnut or antique an-tique oak The coal combine has already decided to advanco the price of coal to 660 per ton and higher in proportion to the amount purchased less than one tonI ton-I Under the present schedule of prices a man ia supposed to get COO pounds of I Pleasant Valley coal for 175 1000 pounds for 3 and a ton for 550 Under the new figures that go into effect as soon as the mayor signs the ordinance the dear public will pay the following prices Quarter ten 225 half ton 385 ton SO 00 The combine figures it out in this way The teamster refuse to haul under the new ordnance for less than twentyfive cents each advance on five hundred pound orders making his fee forty cents the weigher gets ten cents and the dealer fifteen fif-teen cents advance on price On onehalf ton orders the teamster receives re-ceives fifty cents extra for hauling making his fee seventyfive cents the weigher ten cento and the dealer twontyfiye cents advance I I ad-vance in price On full tons the teamster will receive 81 where he now gets fifty cents the weigher tan cents and the dealer fifty cents advance ad-vance The combiqe will also refuse to sell to farmers and others who cal for coal in their own wagons thus compelling those who desire to escape from the hauling charges to have their coal delivered The parties to this agreement which was entered en-tered into yesterday are Wostenholme Morris general agents The Pleasant Valley yard at Second South and Fifth West The Union Pacific yard Fourth West between be-tween bouth and North Temple J S Morse Co corner North Temple and Third West Ellerbcck Brothers First South street Third and Fourth West Diamond Coal company corner of Second South and Third West R M Wilkinson South Temple between Third and Fourth West Salt Lake Coal Coal company old Rock Springs company Third West between Fifth and Sixth South After a meeting held yesterday morning representatives of these firms waited on the mayor and called his attention to the fact that the dealers must advance the price of coal and that being compelled to haul each order separately the teamsters would demand an advance on the price paid them for hauling The mayor was also informed that unless the city established a half score or more of I scales that the delays caused by teams having to wait their turn at the city scales would cause the public such inconvenience that the howls that have gone up would be as the gentle whisper of a zophyr alongside that would of a tornado to the complaints be caused thereby The mayor in answer to tho statements of the gentlemen gave it as his opinion that although the ordinance made it compulsory com-pulsory for the dealers to have each order weighed separately any purchaser could wave his right to an official weight bill and have hs coal delivered direct from the yards This was all the combine committee could get out of the mayor but an intimation intima-tion was had in another quarter that the ton mayor believed the ordinance faulty and would veto it One of the leading agents of the combine in a conversation with a HERALD reporter yesterday said The tight upon us led by TiE HERALD and the report of the grand Jury put tho couucil into a position where they had to do something and this ordinance U the result The council in passing this bill overreached itself 1 believe with you that when a man pays for a ton of coal he ought to get 2000 pounds but this ordinance ordin-ance will work hardships upon the public that the council could not foresee As has been stated the teamsters have refused to haul the orders unless they get an advance ou the present figure The weigher will have to be paid his fee of 10 cents on each order We ourselves will advance the price of coal 50 cents per ton because under the new order of things it will be impossible for us to economically handle as much coal as we are now doing We will not stand any of this extra expense consequently con-sequently the public will have to pay it With this cool admission the combine agent lighted a halfdollar regina and watched the anguishstricken public deposit de-posit their extra dollars at his counters in a pictured fancy in the clouds of smoke |