Show SLACK COAL Price Has Been Raised entyFIve Cents a Ton For some years past the Union Pacific Pa-cific has had the call on the slack II coal haul owing to the fact that but little of this very desirable commodity I is made at the mines in Pleasant Valley Val-ley or at Castle Gate I A few weeks ago the Pleasant Valley Val-ley people or more properly speaking the Rio Grande Westernconceived the I idea that they thould be able to make 1 a deal whereby they would be enabled to put slack coal on the Salt Lake I market and thereby get their proportion propor-tion of the haul How to do this with I no slack of any consequence to sell I was a puzzler but who ever knew a I railroad man stumped for want of a I remedy There was but very little j slack yet carload after carload was I shipped in and sold tb those concerns of the city where steam is necessary to carry on the business But there was a great difference in the slackwhich by the way was called steam coalfurnished by the caled Pleasant Valley people as compared with that coming from Weber or Wyoming Wy-oming The latter was slack pure and simple slack in all that the word implies im-plies while the steam coal furnished by the other people was just as good in many instances as that given by the I companies in the good old days when the consumer ordered and paid for lump I This went on for some time and the dealers commenced to interrogate themselves as to what the next step I would be or whither were they drifting I drift-ing I ingThe answer apparently came yesterday yester-day when It was given out that from and after that date the price of both slack and steam coal would be raised 25 cents per ton and that is the increase the consumers will be subjected onuntil at least jected to from now onunt a fruther increase may be made There does not however appear to be any I particular fight on among the railroad people rather does it seem that there I is an understanding of some kind What that understanding is i there I be one is a mystery Other developments are looked for I by the dealers in a few days |