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Show BLAME FAULTY CUffi FOR COAL SHORTAGE Shipments Often Held on Repair Tracks Week, Dealers Charge. SITUATION IMPROVES Sunday Arrivals Will Lessen Stringency, So Railroad Head Says. Receipts of coal for local ufo over the lVnver A.- Kio Grande railroad totaled seventy cars yesterday, according to K. R. Rock well, assistant general manager of the road. He said that he believed all dealers would be fully supplied by tho time deliveries commenced this mo'ing. A canvRAs of dealers yesterday indirTc that they likewise foci t hat t lie exti-em, stringency of the past mun h has been relieved. The Marsh Coal companv yesterday receive-.! two cars of lump, live of nut and two of slack. This will meet the immediate imme-diate needs o the company. Tho Marsh teamsters, trucks a nd bobsleds, totaling eighteen rigs, were busy all day Sunday, If people are willing to accept nut coal, instead of lump, Die. manager sa.id. Kick orders will have been fillod by Wednesday, Wednes-day, providing that no further hitch In the supply occurs. The melting of the snow Is improving hauling conditions. Bonuses for Drivers. The- Marsh company Saturday paid bonuses of from $n to $10 to t earns tors who had been making long hauls. With the present condition of the roads, teamsters team-sters had been working I welve to fourteen four-teen hours a day and making only $ir to $17 a week. This company felt that the bonuses were only a just recognition of the faithful service of the men. The Western Fuel coijipany reported receipt of eight cars yesterday, with tho prospect that all buck orders would bo filled by Cue end of tho week. This company com-pany made deliveries all day yes ten lay. The Curtis Coal company, in the turgar-house turgar-house territory, received only one car of nut coal yesterday, but this would be sufficient suf-ficient for a day or two, the manager aaid. He has received word that three muio oars will reach him today. The Sugar-house Sugar-house Coal company could not be readied yewlerday, but it Is understood that this company also has been able to get a fair supply of coal. Cars on Repair Tracks. The Forest Dale company got one car of lump, according to the manager. S. L. Billings, Jr. He said that this would last "about fifteen minutes," but that it was considerably better than nothing. "One thing that complicates matters Is the fact ihat cars arriving here are, in many cases, in very had order," said a dealer yesterday. "These cars are held up in the repair track for possibly a week, not only delaying delivery of V'1; coal, hut congesting the yards." Another dealer asserted that one carW out of three billed to him was held up for tills reason. "This particularly affects the dealers whose yards are in tiie outskirts," he said "In many cases tiie bad order cars lrL0 get to us for weeks." ' The Standard Fuel company yesterday had on hand three cars of slack, one and one-half of lump and no nut coal. Two cars were eel in yesterday, Tiie company, com-pany, even with the strike now on, can dispose of eight cars a day, it was stat- , ed. The strike has not a fleet eel the company com-pany materially, it is claimed. The Standard company has the contract for supplying the schools, and by giving these preference over all other 'vusiness has managed to avoid any shortage. |