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Show COLORADO ORCEINS iSEeOI PRICES DENVER, Oct. 2. The Roclir Moim-tain Moim-tain Fuel company, the Colorado-Utah Coal -company and other coal companies today raised their prices on prepared sizes of coal nut and lump troni ?2.7n at the mine, the price lixed bv the president's presi-dent's i proclamation Ausus't 21, to ?4, which is the maximum price fKed in the order Riven to thc public yesterday by the coal administrator, Dr. 1-1. A Garfield. Gar-field. Tills means, leading Denver ratailers say, that Hie price of $6.."i0 to the consumer, con-sumer, prevailing today, will jump immediately imme-diately to $7.43. AerordinK lo information received here last night, the imretfee in prices of coals in Colorado applies only to mines in certain cer-tain districts and to run of mine and prepared pre-pared coals. The ruiinsr of Dr Garfield Branled an increase to all mines In Colorado Colo-rado in other than J.as Animas county on run of mine and prepared coals anil affects practically all the small commercial commer-cial producing companies. The Colorado l-iiel ,fe Iron company is not affected at all and the V ictor-American i-'uel corn-ponvebut corn-ponvebut sliivhtly. ' The president's order fixed the price of coals in Colorado as follows: Slack f run of mine! $2.4:.: prepared sizes.' S2.7u! because the smaller concerns could l.nd no market lor their slack thev were permitted per-mitted by Dr. Garfield to " reduce the price to Ji.50 aild to increase run of mine lo JM and prepared sizes to SI a ton. I |