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Show THB C0Al.irESTI03r. With extremely no!H weather there u a scarcity of or! in town such as no one expected to see after the experience experi-ence of last winter, and one which is very unpleasant and unprofitable to the citizens of Salt Lake city. The public have been led to believe that, with oar railroad connections and proximity prox-imity to the mines, they could dispense with the wood stove entirely and feel secure in the possession of those burning burn-ing coal. This, of course, will prove correct in the end, when our coal merchants have their business eyes opened wider than they seem to have been the past summer and fall. Their present position posi-tion is that they are out of coal, and are receiving tho anathemas of the hour, which, we tni3t, will preclude the occurrence again of a like event. But our coal merchants, the middle men, are not altogether to blame in the matter; some of the fault lies a little nearer the ooalbeda. The plain fact ia, that the majority of our coal mines are run by men without capital sufficient to work them to advantage and supply the exhorbitant demand of a cold snap. The no n-completion of the railroad to th Weber beds is another cause in bad weather. The supply from those mines depends upon old, rickety , wagons and flow teams, and in bad , weather thy are uselese. The com-. com-. paoy owning the road from Echo to Coalville has now three" and a half miles of iron for laying, and the expectations ex-pectations arc that the line will be completed by New Year'd. After then our coal question will be less (rouble- some. Iu the meantime, let coal dealers lay the business foundation of accommodating accom-modating the public, and they may be repaid for the extra exertion now, by a continuance of patronage when there shall not be such a 'dearth as at the present time. |