Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-03-11 | Page 12 | Local News

During all past time the first essentIal essen-tIal of n nation going to war has been to be sure that food for the army and p the people was secured But since modern mod-ern wars depend Ii very materially on 1 hips and since warshlps are all steam I ShIPS coal has become the chief factor I and just now there Is J a shortage of coal from Wales clear down the coast through the Pillars of Hercules and across the Mediterranean to Greece England Is buylnrj all she can from I the United States so Is France so Is J Italy and evan Russia which hog been buying rails locomotives and steel bridges from the United States Is likewise like-wise buying all the American coal that she can get The thought In many minds Is that nil that has prevented In Europe a demonstration against Eng land and In favor of the Boers Is that thore Is no coal for ships Railroad t mru ought to keep In mind that It Is only about 600 miles over easy grade from the rom Inexhaustible coal measures of Utah to the west coast and that a light rate on coal would pay the cost of a road In live or six I Y C n