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Show THE SCARCITY OF COAL The Situation is Becoming Alarming-People Alarming-People Can't Get Fuel Enough to Oook Their Meals, EEAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS. The Builington Oorner Sold to a Syndicate Syndi-cate of Business Men A Good ; Mining Output Notes. The scarcity of coal still continues alarming. In fact it might better be called an absence of coal for that is the truth of the situation. People in the city are ahivering. They have not coal enough with which to cook their meals and yet they have been burning coal with an economy almost unequalled and still they cannot extend its service to the period of shortage. One dealer says that he has nearly fifty cars ordered or-dered ahead by consumers but he can not get a pound to distribute. If a supply is not received in a few days it is hard to say just what the consequences consequen-ces will be. The railroad companies are trying to relieve the situation, but without much success. News from Rock Springs says that that place is not yielding half the coal it could ship dally. The coal is t'icre, aud there are also there many mon ready and willing to dig it, but there are no cars to transport the fuel. The Heola Consolidated. The Hecla Consolidated Mining company com-pany of Glendale, Beaverhead county, has shipped over the Union Pacific railway rail-way during the management of H. Knlepenberg since 1881, 24,000 tons of lead, 1000 tons copper matte, 5,750,000 ounces silver, 5000 ounces gold, and paid out for labor at its mines and smelter during that time $5,000,000. That is a splendid showing even for one of the best managod companies in the state; but suppose that since 1881 lead had commanded five cents a pound and silver $1.10 an ounce, the present ruling prioes for those minerals as a rBult of republican legislation. How much larger would have been ' the dividends. ' , Ileal Estate Kxchange. The business meetings of the exchange will be held on Wednesday mornings at 10:30. All members are requested to be present. Wanted A 10x9i between Fourth East betwoen Fourth and Fifth South, west front. Price $10,500; $2500 cash and balance at 8 per cent, long time. Offer 20x10 front, 20 rods on Brig- ham and 10 rods on Tenth East, and 20 rods. west. Terms reasonable. Secretary Montgomery is surrounded by a big pile of, correspondence respecting re-specting investments in Salt Lake city. The letters are from different parts of the union tand will be answered at once. " The Burlington Corner. The Burlington corner has been sold to Dr. Freeman and an organized building build-ing company for $02,000. A six or eight story building will be erected thereon next spring. The stockholders of the enterprise are business and professional pro-fessional nioti, who will occupy offices in the now building. Real Estate Notes. Miller & MeKenzle of Trinidad, Col., dt'Blre to open a wholesale produce house In this city. A party of Salt Lakers is trying to got the territorial agency for the new gas and fuel light, for which the Salt Lake Improvement Improve-ment company Is after. Thero is a dearth of houses in the city. Several hundred dwellings are needed rlitht now. A go.id feature In this matter Is that the working men are buylnj lois on which to erect homes for thomselves. The territorial treasurer is not receiving receiv-ing satisfactory replies to his bids for terrltor-iol terrltor-iol bonds' As the bonds are only 6 per cent bonds the tightness of the eastern money market makes the matta very tough. However, How-ever, the ticasurer Is hopeful. |