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Show 'SHORT-WEIGHT COIL COIEKE CALLED Inspectors of Salt Lake and Ogden to Meet at Capitol in This City Heber C bni tl btatc sealer o e ghts and meas es ast u ght called a conference ot c t we ghts and meas ures inspectors of Salt Lake and Ogden to dec de upon a o rue o act on aga nst coal dealers who deli e short weight loads of fuel to con umers The conference na& set tor toda and will probablv be held at the sta e weights and mea res 1 ureau at the new -capitol. There w 11 be pre e t "tate Sealer Smith Dec t State dealer C E Condie T L Ir ne c t nspector of" weights and meas res for bait La e and the we ghts and measures spe tor in the emploj of the e tj of Ogden Mr Smith would uot predict what the action of this onteren e would be I want to tal the s tuat on o er w th the 0 city inspectors first he said as the caes of coal shortages are in thei m mediate jurisdiction In making the in epecbons m th s city and n Ogden the "b state department worked with the cit officials Inspections of coal wagons and their eontents were made in bait Lake last week Following publ cation of the re suits some of the coal dealers whose loads showed short measure on the scales were considerably st rred Manj lof them called upon State Sealer Sm th, essaying that they had no knowledge 01 ; short weights and that careless em H ployees were respons ble tor them I do not believe commented Ur Smith yesterday that manv of the dealers nave been intentionally short weighing the r customers but that t not H important The public is not responsi ble for the carelessness of coal vard employees. The public is entitled to full weight and the only interest this de Tartment has in the question is m see-; see-; ing that the law requiring full weights for commodities is lived op to .In one hour in Ogden the state sealer C'and his depntv working with the c tv ' K inspector, weighed nineteen loads of icoa which showed a net shortage of gBllOO pounds In the forty loads in BSfcPpectea in Salt Lake, a shortage of Bpf225 pounds was found On the other hand these included 870 pounds of over weight, making the net shortage on the forty loads 13o5 pounds |