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Show HOT ON TIL OF Oil TiST Tingey Sends Notice to Six Alleged Al-leged Members of the Combine. FIVE PRODUCING FIRMS AND TWO RAILWAYS NAMED Unless Concerns Withdraw From Trust, Attorney-General Will Be Notified. Secretary of Slate C. S. Tingoy now Is lint on the trail of the coal combine. Mr. TJngcy, following the natural sequence of actions heretofore taken, addressed communications Monday to six alleged members of the coal trust In Salt Lake City and warned them that unless they withdrew from the combination within thirty days he will iakc tho matter up with the attorney general, to the end of. having their corporate rights and franchises fran-chises revoked. Five producing corporation! and two railroad companies also arc montloncd In Mr, Tlngey's communication, which la as follows: Tiugey's Notice. "Gentlemen You are hereby notified that written and verbal evidence has recently re-cently been submitted to me, whieh, upon examination, satisfies me that there now exists an unlawful combination between be-tween eertaln coal-producing companies, railroad companies and corporations organized or-ganized for the purpose of retailing or distributing coal, having for Its purposu the regulation of the retail price of coal In the stale of Utah, and especially In Salt Lake City. "The evidence Indicates that the producing pro-ducing corporations Involved In this unlawful un-lawful combination nro the Utah Kuel company, a corporation of New Jersey: the Union Paclfio Coal company, a. corporation cor-poration of Wyoming, the independent Coal & Coke company, a corporation of Wyoming; the Consolidated Fuel company, com-pany, a corporation of Utah, anil tho Castle Valley Coal company, a corporation corpora-tion of Wvomlng; that the corporations engaged In retailing or distributing coal Implicated in this unlawful combination are the Federal Coal company, the Western West-ern Fuel company, the Citizens' Coal company, the Bamberger Conl company, and the Jeremy Fuel fc Grain company, corjoratlons of the state of Utah, and the Central Coal & Coke company, a corporation corpora-tion of Missouri. Must Withdraw. "It, therefore, becomes my duty under un-der the provisions of section 1750 of title 05, Compiled Laws of Utah, 1907. to notify no-tify you, and you aro so notified, that unless your company withdraws from and severs all business connections with said trust, combination or association, and submits satisfactory evidence to me of that fact within thirty dnys from the date of this notice I shall cause a certified certi-fied statement of U such facts as T now have or that may hereafter be submitted lo me, tending lo show the cxlstcnco of such unlawful trust, combination or association, as-sociation, to be filed with the attorney general of this state for the purpose of having the corporato rights and franchises fran-chises of vour company revoked as provided pro-vided by law. Very truly yours. "C. S. TINGEY, Secretary of State." |