| Show NO KICK HE COAL V MS S f dealers say they are the sufferers I 1 CONSUMERS GEI FULL VALUE 4 I 1 I 1 have to stand tho the loss by slacking rind and theft and ray pay freights on the pull full weight mr whitehead gives some interesting figures on shortage between the mines and salt ake buyers treated honestly t 1 councilman hardys hardy resolution relative to choit coal weights revived a familiar subject among coal dealers and consumers yesterday the it dealers OMI as 03 ti fl rule declared that any plan that would insure correct carload weights would bo be most desirable they were unanimous however in resenting resent lne the e chamec g made by mr hardy that they found it necessary to give their customers short weight in order to protect themselves the result that iho cho consumer Is being belieff mulched mulcted every time he buys a ton of 0 coal the dealers insisted that they were furni ghin g consumers full weight in every instance s tance james M moore the general agent 0 of the union pacific coal department to characterized as all mull the statement that nearly every carload Is from SOT to pounds ahmit of 0 its billed weight ile II 11 sald said too that the proposition to weigh each carload on the track hero here was impracticable it would necessitate necessity necess ita to the weighing of 0 each cadi cap again after it had been unloaded and this would involve loss of time and much lit in switching tile the dealers he said were making but to few tv com complaints plaines plaints of shortages I 1 T K n ellerbeck said bald that his birin had no complaints to make it had checked up twenty clara cars in the last three months and found that it had not lost over 1000 pounds in all it was impossible to check up all cars but ho he was satisfied that the average loss ouli not be greater than in the cast case ot of those which had been wel shed it happened of 0 course that out of a shipment ot of pounds only or pounds of 0 lump jump coal would be obtained but the lie remainder would be received in the toini ot of screenings which ot of course involved a loss to the dealers on account of oc the lower price for slack the larj linn i had checked up a car on tuesday which was billed at pounds and which weighed but whenever an excessive shortage it was probably due to thefts but much coal was as now being shipped in box cals cais and thre there wore were fewer complaints than ever beffie which to establish the theory that thieves took coal from the open cars mr El lorbeck protested against the charge that consumers were being served with short weight coat coal when he found an excessive shortage in his shipments lie sought redress from the coal companies and his customers did nut suffer lie ile thought the proposed ordinance would be a dead letter just as was the ordinance requiring dealers to weigh coat coal on the city scales the ordinance would doubtless bo be evaded as aa the dealers would be likely to waive their right to have carloads weighed so its as to avoid the delays and inconveniences the system would entail J W whitehead jr was not so well satisfied with the existing situation lie said that mr hardys statement regarding short carload weights was in the main correct wo seldom get a car said he that Is not short front from to 1000 pounds we cannot check out all the cars but those we have checked out have all but one been short heres one for instance said mr whitehead taking up a tabulated statement short heres another ot of one of 2130 2490 still another of and one of 0 1600 these were all received within the last laist few days the mining companies say they put full weight on the cars and contend that the amount short must murt be stolen between the mines and this city there Is something radically wrong what it Is we have not been able yet to find out A shipment that came in a box car settled sealed panned out all right whether hether W special care was taken in tile the weight at the mine or whether the full weight was due to the inability of thieves to get at the aoa coal 1 I 1 do not know the worst ot of all continued mr whitehead Is that the railroad companies sometimes increase the mine weight BOO to HOO 1100 pounds pound so when in reality clio enal al Is short weight thi the increased weight shown by the scales Is due to the tact fact that the car itself Is heavier thrill than the weight meddled on it cars care grow heavier with age and so go in cases where tile weight of carloads Is marked up tip on us you see gee we have to pay freight on the difference the stenciled weight and the real weight of the car the railroad companies mark up the weight but they never deduct tor for shortage the proposed ordinance would be a good thing another injustice Is the charging of salt lake dealers by the mining companies more than IF in charged montana de dealers I 1 have been informed by a i reliable gent gentleman leirl it n that the montane montana men get their coal tor for 25 cents less per ton than we do 1 I do not believe liny any are riving lying vi short ort weight it Is the dealers nho he are ar suffering they are the victims the short weights and the slack black are their loss we take great creat care in weighing our coal for consumers and I 1 ude defy I 1 y ony I 1 man 1 tin t to 0 find a shortage in cla ity 1 0 our ll 11 weights t it would be b a very good thine bald r a id I 1 TJ C it if a method could he devised tor for preventing abort we weights tights not only in coal shipments but in I 1 those hose of oc other merchandise 1 I ft carload of 0 hay lay from rr am cache valley recently that was wan 1300 pounds short put cut I 1 ido ao not believe ill the railroad companies can be reached by tho the proposed pro ordinance wo we expect carloads to run short from to 1000 pounds when our shipments ore axe from two to three tons ions a short hort the coal companies reimburse us but when the shor horkae hor I 1 lae age is 1 under a ton we stand gland tile the loss consumer are however receiving tull full weight htoo and better service than ever before C S martin stated that not conr aso ago he wit was a short pounds on an tons but U uila I 1 is was larg largely lely due he believed to the slacking g of 0 the coal before the coal combination went to pieces he was short shor t pounds on one shipment but since tile the lot lat of oc august aug dol dealers alers had brid roce received ived better treatment and were lc ini ing turn furnished plied better coal than before |
