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Show iff til DIES CHARGES OF MILLER I P. & R. G, Head Says For- mer Hatcher Gave I False Testimony. I HEARING IS CLOSED Coal Investigators Will! Make Report Not Later Than February 20. With the examination of three more witnesses las r.m lJie Joint legislative committee h'-!,- the coal shortage situation brougfcr Ila hearings to a close. The committee u now begln tlie work of compiling th evidence taken and preparing pre-paring its repor. to lne legislature on the causes of the ci snortasc and remedies for it, which re;0rt is to be submitted to the legislature : later than February M. Y II. ilO'.Ki as.sjstant General freight ;int oi ihe LJvx.r fc Kio Grande Kail-mad Kail-mad cumpany. r:is on ti,0 witness stand 1,,-fnre tne cttee ag;Li last night ,i,iivmg n ;;i ,( trie testimony given 'runway niiijH:. employees ajid former PiU 'lo.vees ot vt jiQ r.rande in relation tn delays m trfip atlfi lne advantage of ort trams i: txpedilious handling of traffic. Rockwell JLkes Denial. Mr. Ro.!twpia!lljCf tlie testimony of these witness ns being incorrect and 1. 1 ifair. He rf. re tba t t he witnesses v-erc before th-lfinmttee to "boost' 1'or h i-a r-leng'b V: now pending 'before the lnni-e of ror-r.ie,ita,tivt'5 and that their tv rimoivy -",:-iven for the purpose of jnflLien.-'hic Sfr:.meiU in favor of this bill, lint with a vm tQ getting at tlie cause o; the ro;il s'tji.se. The winiese-cferred especially to the Usiirnom riiayn former years trains of rod! "eJ to operated over tlie road in a iv-w hour, and the coal delivered in V, .-u .pi.. jt ifj ,e Yiad looked up M train rr. and found that tlie rl-Jivorv rl-Jivorv of co.tI hose years when Argyle, 'I'. Miller v.-.-isief train dispatcher moli fim twelve ttxteen hours from Colton to .Si !r J ,a !::! iho time from Helper is ironi iwm tlireo Imurs longer, lie (l-viarrd thaioal trains, though they shnrtor ins those day? than now, V'fre pnt deli.d on tlie average tn Sslt '-s in anvorter time than they are now. Kefutes flier's Testimony. I .Mr. Rookw most emphaticallv denied I V"" tostinirtt.of Miller that the Rio 1 Jiffn-If sn.-nes time for tonnage in the 1 J'Mi'Jl'Mc of dght traffic over its lines. Jf'1 dr:ird tt loaded coal cars are set j on side-eks and left there for in- I f'-nn're rf-j-,. iIe declared that there I i- more or 's placing of oars, buL that I tltr-ars s;.ii tiit brief periods. I Til u-jthm admitted that trains, are I eomptunes :I up for ten hours while the I tpv.s ret t ir rest under the terms ot" ' !fl fiorri sixteen-hour law, but said ''is was an xception and not a rule, as 1 h 1 e l'onipan 'sought to overcome this tie-LP tie-LP as niuchis possible. ('ngestia at Ogden. M:1ps L. ones, a retail coa! dealer of J'len nS n the stand and told of Jus inynJlity to et coal to supply the demand "Hn his yrds. He declared there was congest ior of cars in tlie yards at Og-0,,n, Og-0,,n, lack o engines to handle the cars nd that hehad been unable to ?et a car p oal from the Utah Fuel company sine ,s Oetoiie'. He 'said there was some n'lnfEe i&o from the Wyoming- coal George p pble, salesman for the Gunn-W.i.ijy Gunn-W.i.ijy Coal company, did not know what L it . 'u ''":v the committee had to ask him .'iis a:;d told the committee so. He y ompEly informed as to the coni-i coni-i U',k-.B authority, so thawed out and ad-I ad-I lie. r- there was a shortage of cars tlie '"ming coal fields, so that his iTiipany's -mines had to suffer from in- oiiltv to fill orders also. His testimony ixd brief and with it the hearing was I closed. |