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Show I REASONS GIVEN I FOR COM FAMINE Increase of Population in North-west North-west Accounts for the Present Condition. MARVELOUS DEVELOPMENT OF SPLENDID COUNTRY , Eight Thousand Setters Were Taken Into State of Idaho Last Year. In considering the coal situation and j passing verdict thereon the people seem I to entirely overlook the fart, that this ! region Is developing and that mi In ' created demand Is annm.lly being made j on thfl mining and railroad (esowcOB. I Although the mines are heingr worked to tho maximum ami bhe railroads are doing everything In their power to facilitate fa-cilitate the transportation of COfli, the shortage exists and this is explainer on account of the fact of the enormous development de-velopment of this section of th country. coun-try. During the past yeas 8000 settlers were f rajjsportod by the. Oregon Short Line Into the 'fVIn Falls and Minidoka country in Idaho, and these people, have to be supplied with coal. ThMr supply comes from ih Kemmerer, Dia- i mondvtlle and other mines in Wyoming; Mid not only has this new population but also the large natural Increase all over the Northwest to he supplied from the same source, and thus thf capacity of the mines and the railroads Is taxed to Its limit. Conditions Are Chang-ed Conditions are much changed from what they were ten or fifteen years ago. Then the supply of coal was an easy matter. But today 'he demand has almost doubled and the mines and mining facilities remain practically about tho same The new Industries which haye been established in the last few years also add greatly to the consumption con-sumption of eoni. but the output Of the mines remains much :is it was. heretofore hereto-fore and the railroad far 111 ties are much the same. Then again the great natural lnrrea.se in population Is overlooked over-looked and this n rease means aji additional ad-ditional consumption of coal. Salt Lake cty alone consumes alrhost double, the amount of coal that It did fifteen years ago and 'he same holds good as to many other portions of the State. Make Provision for Future. As has been hertoforo pointed out in these columns, there is but one remedy for this condition of affairs; the dealer and the consumer must store coal dur- 1 Ing the summer months. The dealers can do this The railroads will make them o storage rate and thus they will save money hy dolnp so. Many of the consumers con make this provision. They have ample aceommoda Hon to da so and they w;ll be money ahead by doing do-ing so and the conditions which confront con-front the people today will he averted In the future. Must Practice Economy. At nrescnt the roal situation is considerably con-siderably relieved While dealers are still behind In the filling of their orders, no one is absolutely in want, for coal. The supply, of course, Is limited and until the situation rights itself consumers con-sumers will have to be economical In their use of the commodity. |