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Show Provo Out ol Coal. A gentleman up fiom Provn cum plains that that city is outuf con I, am little, if any, can bo obtained. No: that coal is not lioing tnk.-n cut of tht Pleaiant Valley coal beds, nor tbat the road is blockaded, but that the company com-pany ships about all it gets out to Bandy ; and while the people of the settlements thereabout are willing to pay the prices asked, they are given the cold shoulder, and the fuel is shipped, uudor their very noses, a die-tance die-tance of about thirty-fivo miles to Sandy, which is only filteon miles from Salt Luke, where there ia an immense depot. But thia iB not the worst ; the people peo-ple of Provo can nc I obtain ocal from Salt Lake, whioh ia understood under-stood to be in consequence of an agreement tbat has been entered into, by whicb the Utah Southern cannot ship coal below Sandy, while the Utah and Pleasant Valley is not to furuiah the article for places above Fandy, and rather than run tho risk of losing any ot the Sandy trade, the Pleasant Valley company is willing to let tho people of the settlements to whom Uey appealed for aieiatance, and to whom they promised so much, go without fuel, and by the tormB of the conLractthey have cuiored into, have prevented the possibility of Provoitos obaining that kind of firing from any other aource. This is tho kind of Rratiludo iu which the company is repaying the people, aid it is lor thia that the citizens of Provo are helping to conttruct tho road from Springville to their town. This state of things at Provo and Springville will put point to the necee-sity necee-sity of the proposed Coalville, Park City and Salt Lako road bein owned by the people. If it is owned and run by a private corporation, the fute of Provo people will be ours, only more aggravated. |