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Show RATES COIEHCE iLDIPORTLJi, Prominent Utah Men Take Part in Discussion; Want Coal Tariff Lowered. Special to Tho Trlbuno. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 9. In an effort to havo rates into the Spokano district loworod. operators of coal mines in Utah and Wyoming held a conference with Traflic Manager Miller of the O. "V. P.. & N. companv, which lasted tho entire aftornoon today. When the meeting adjourned no agreement had been rcportod. It was announced that the mine operators and tho railroad officials of-ficials would resume the conference Wodncsdaj- morning. The interstate commorcc committee, in the Sheridan rate case, ordered the Burlington and other roads to reduce the rate from the Wvoming coal fields to Spokane. The order did not nffoct tho O. W. n. & N. Tho operators have asked that this road readjust its rates so that thoy can meet the competition of operators shipping- over the roads which have been nit by the Sheridan case. Among those who attended today's sesKion arc: E. G. Itolapp, Ogden, and G. W. Cushing, J. A. Hooves, ITenrv Conlan, Jr., J. P. Emmcrt. W. D. Maclan, F. J. O'Brien and William Gorton, all of Salt Lako City. It was explained in Salt Lake last night, that tlio Utah shippers of coal wero handicapped bv a differential of 25 cents beforo tho Sheridan rate case was decided, and that the decision in this case increased their burdon. Utah dealors have been shipping $200,000 worth of coal a year to tho Spokane and Coeur d'Aleno districts. Now that tho lower rates from tho northern Wyominc flolds aro in force in Utah dealers find themselves handicapped by differentials ranging from 75 cents to $1.20, As tho decision affectod only tho lines of the Burlington, the Utah shippers havo taken up the matter with tho Oregon -Short Line and Oregon Railway Rail-way and Navigation company in tho hope of getting rates that will still permit the shipping of Utah coal into the Spokano and Coeur d'Alene dis- |