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Show Tub Coal Question. "Citizen" asks his say in reppouse to "W eber," on tho ooil question, an! wo give him tho space ho acki this morniug: Crismonvi'ilo, Dee. 1 1th, Messrs. EMtorr. I nouca iu your issue of the 1-th instant, tint yo:ir correspondent "Weber" has something to say about our "strike." A-j fr as we arc concerned con-cerned hero there is very little of his remarks wo take perouly. To be sure we have had a little strike, and caused the controllers of the roiues feme nneasioess, but the fault is not with patties here. The patties here that control the mines havo never been cnoonracrd to give cheap coal. The ; railroad has been lying dormant lor a long time, and wo have boon at the mercy of thoe who transported to Echo; whereas it our railroad nan oeen completed as promi.d, wo wou d not have been at the mercy of the transporters trans-porters with teams and c-uld have cheap rates of freight andc.mFcquently placed coal at y-mr doors at much reduced rate?. While you would have had cheap fuel we would have lair profits on oor coal, nnd to raiboal company mado large returns to its stockholders, come a.ng with your capital; build the road, and we Wi 1 cive you cheap coal ani be ab!o to povcrn the "strikers," |
