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Show !H PLANTS 10 : 1SK; IBS Lifting of Restrictions on Coal Delivery Prob-i Prob-i able Today. -'":-...: authority is expected today for tho release of U tan Cuai for delivery to nontssont ial ind us tries which have been under the blanket embargo since early in the month. Delivery of coal with the restriction off will enable the two large concerns whi'-h we-'e comrelied to close for lack of coal to resume operations at once. It was said yesterday 'that the Utah Iron and Steel company, which suspended work more, than ten das ago, will probably prob-ably receive sufficient coal today . to enable en-able it to prepare for active work tomorrow. tomor-row. The closing of tiiis company resulted re-sulted in a temporary suspension of structural struc-tural steel work on the new capitol building build-ing a I. Dolse, Idaho. Tho Portland ceim-nt company of Utah, which shut down early last week, will also be able to resume work, weather permit ting, either tomorrow or Die next ; day. Orders were received yesterday lifting I the last strike regulations issued by the fuel adminisi ration tho -ie restricting the I hours of heating and lighting office build -I brigs and other establishments. Tuis order ! had not been appned locally because of I the fact that the lighting is doneaimost ' entirely through hydro-eiectric power. A. D. Piersou, general sales agent for the Utah Fuel company, yesterday ro-i ro-i ceived a telegram from V. J. Tapp, chair-! chair-! man of tne fuel administration commit-; commit-; tee, for co;l handled over the Denver & Rio uraiide railroad, in which he said that the coal restrictions will be li fted probably today, so far as Utah industries are concerned. Me added that he was telegraphing the local offices of the rail-roau rail-roau to deliver coal as billed. I. H. Luke, general superintendent of the railroad, said last night that he had not yet received the order. T. H. Kin-nersley, Kin-nersley, chairman of the fuel administration adminis-tration committee having jurisdiction over deliveries made via tr.o Oregon Short Line and the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, said last night that he expects ex-pects an order lifting the embargo either today or tomorrow. 1 Mr. Luke said that he received orders yesterday to restore the fuel passenger and freight schedules over the Denver & Rio Grande, effective Thursday at midnight. The full schedule of the Oregon Ore-gon Srmrt Line railroad will also become effective aain at thar. time. With the general resumption of coal mining throughout the country, the principal prin-cipal effort if the railroads and the coal operators of the west at least will be to get fuel to the districts which have suffered suf-fered most during" the strike. Their next consideration; will be the release of coal as speedily possible to those Industries Indus-tries classed as nonessentials which were compelled to suspend operations. There was a general fueling yesterday that It Is all over save the rejoicing, so far as the coal strike Is concerned. Utah Industries were, for the most part, spared in one of the most momentous industrial disturbances which the country has experienced ex-perienced in recent years, and which resulted re-sulted in general economic shut-downs the country over. There ' was much .hanksgiving yesterday that the action of the Utah miners in remaining at their posts and the efforts of the operators to have them stay had resulted in such material ma-terial saving of disturbance to the staie. The natioTial strike started on" November 1 and ended nominally- on December 1 0, when the miners' union chiefs accepted the proposals made by President Wilson. By today it is expected that the mining will have resumed almost normal production produc-tion in the fields which were affected. |