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Show READY FOyUSINQS; Chief J. S. Spelman Opens Offices and Names Several Sev-eral Assistants. STATEMENT IS ISSUED Attention to Be Directed Toward Remedying Evils of Transportation. Tlie. district car service 'bureau, which will iook after the distribution of coal in the eitrht iniermountain and coaFt states,; t. now in full guing. J. S. Spelman, who i ias chosen as beau" of the bureau, opened hia uf flees in the Xewhouse buUrHns- yes- j tor-Jay, appointed his office force and on- ' iwe.fl actively upon one of the biggest i n-nlo UjM has confronted any one n-,un j I'ur ,'omc time. The first appointment announced was I tl.at of H. A. Stun a chief clerk. Mr. 'tone has been one o. the traveling auditors audi-tors of ti:e "Western Pacific. Hia duties w ill be to tnke charge of all office records, keep in touch with the handling of cars an-J coal, look after the correspondence jnd reports necessary to be made to the i suite administrators of the district, hpn-d! hpn-d! the accounts and otherwise assist Mr. ipohnnn in every way possible.. Other appointees for the office force comprise K. J. rlilton and J. -f. Jvellngg. Mi. HMron is named as statistician and v-ill y;itlier and pile statistics and records necessary for tlie information of tlie bureau" bu-reau" and the states administrators of the district. Mr. Kellogg ia an expert stenosis stenos-is pher. Two Inspectors Named. Two inspectors also have been appointed appoint-ed by Mr. Spelman. They are J. R. Austin, Aus-tin, former chief train rJippa.tf.her for the lenver R- Rio Grande, and T). A. Fitz-patiick, Fitz-patiick, former yardinaster of the. ame mud. Their duties will he to check the movements of all cars loaded and empty to and from the mines, watch union dine, prompt releasing and movement of cars when empty at aii points: confer with railroad officials, mine operators and others oth-ers with reference to the handling of equipment and lading to relieve coal shortages in the eight states. Mr. Austin is at present following the movement of tlie empties between Oi?den and the mines in the vicinity of Castle Gale and Helper, and Mr. Fits pa trick has been as&itmed to the Wyoming coal mining min-ing district. Rock Springs and Ke-jn merer. On hehalf of the bureau, the following statement was made yesterday: The Bureau's Statement. The work of the district car service bureau Ib beginning with the compilation compila-tion of statistics showiri? the maximum maxi-mum output of each mine in the district, dis-trict, the maximum requirements of pach town in the district for tlie next five mouth?. Daily yard reports from carriers will be asked for to a seer-tain seer-tain where the fault lies for the in-, ability of the carriers to furnish cars To tlie mines for loading, and to find where the delay to the coal hilled to liic district occurs. Arrangements have hem made with . ttio demurrage bureau to furnish the district car service bureau with daily reports of their inspectors as to the a.rriva.1 of loads at stations in the dls-' dls-' irlct. dates upon which the cars were pent to plants or individuals for load-Ins;, load-Ins;, dates of unloading and release of tlie cars. For m s a re being p re pa red wit 1 1 which to notify conslgneps when it is shown by the above reports t hat cars .-ire riot being released as promptly a? should bp, and it is the duty of i lie inspectors to t3kp up the matter.-" cf delay right on thp ground affr t hppe nol lfiea tlons have been found nalected. Vhile H may appear that the operation? oper-ation? of the district car service are confined at 'he present time to the states of ,'tnh and Wyoming, this is not a facl. Th? trouble at this time In in getting cars emptied, moved to the mines for coal loading and getting the coal moved from the mines to thp Fait Lake and Ogden gateways. Aftr tr'1 com is leaded and mo ed to these enteways there Is no particular trouble trou-ble in pelting prompt mnvpnienl to the states comprising the district. Splendid ro-oncration of the smelters smelt-ers with the district spnicp bureau has' been promised and tomorrow a complete survey of the ground will bo in progress at Murray and Mid vale, t he members of the party bplng the tiaffic managers of the smelting companies, com-panies, the superintendent of tlie lionvor it Rio Grande, the car sprvlee-agpnt sprvlee-agpnt of t hp Oregon Short, Line, a member of the public utllit ie.s rom-nilspion rom-nilspion and Mr. Spelman. director of the district car service bureau here In Salt Lle. Probe Coal Situation. In ordpr tha.t t h- effect of ny nrnb- ahlo crul siioitage during the winter may hn minimised and that there may tie. aa iK.-.ir as possible, nu ennui division of the supply h nicmg consumers, the city nrt- Jy viory roniml i lee of th district ear ee-rv-he bi'temj is pre pari pr to make a house-1 house-1 to-bonse canvas to ascertain the amount J of coal in store by each consumer. That the can vans may be completed nul-'kly, or within a period of twenty-four hours, Church V. Custle, thalrnmn of the city committee, yesterday ma do an appeal ap-peal for persons to volunteer their services for the work. The canvass will hp hegnp just ns soon as the city can he districted and . the uno pe-rsnns have, volunteered their fcicpi. op the committee com-mittee Mr. ("astle haa the nsiptane of ' Irf'ster I . Krrcd. Joseph 1 l;.?i , O. B. Ilovley and otto H. Ashhridw-e. It is the purpose of thp. committee to ;i:;certaln the supply of -o:i! in th retail oal yards, in the bins of the puhlic utilities, util-ities, industries and man u fact urhig establishments, estab-lishments, and in each individual cellar. This is deemed necessary that the needs of the cnntimers of S:i!l 1-nkc may be known and mbulMied lor the next five n;ont hs. It is roouestod hv Mr. Castle that each householder be. prepared v. hen the canvasser can-vasser calls to M.'ito at once just the amount of coal on hand and uhat will bp I the requirement for the coming live months. |