Show IC COAL Al RAI RAISE f fi i l LOSES IN UTAH TA TAI I I Retail Dealers Drop Back to Old Charge Two Companies Maini Maintain Main Main- i tam tain Increased Rates I Unable to compete with deal dealers I ers and producers produce s who wha declined to advance their prices along with the independent coal producers pro prO prOducers all but two companies 1 have dropped back to the old old price of a ton Coal produced by the Standard r I Coal company and the Untied t i States Fuel company h I continues to hold at the adVah 1 price and can he be had bad only f 1 a ton This coal includes s Standard 1 J watha King Panther and Black Dlack brands All AU other oilier Utah coals and aid f I ming coals arc selling on tile the 10 tt market at the old price f. I The rhe Independent n Coal and ail e. oke i j company was the last of the tho I ent producers to meet the advance I in price first announced by th the StandI Standard Stand- Stand I ard Coal company but did not mako its advance effective in Salt Lake As this tilts company supplies a large portion of ot the total consumption here bore the other independents outside the tho Standard and United States were Unable unable unable un un- able to hold up their advance There is but little litHe change in the I local situation although the shortage horta e outside of Salt Lake apparently is inI In in- I creasing Hundreds ds of telegrams and letters are pouring In dally daily from Utah and and Idaho points from dealers pleading for coal The Tile recent storm which extended extended ex- ex tended throughout the tile intermountain territory served to intensify the situation j Traveling representatives of ot one independent Independent independent in In- dependent producer advised his general general gen gen- eral office today that tho the shortage I in transportation was not so muck on account of cars but duo due more to lack lack of ot sufficient motive powen power According to this tills advice practically every siding on ou the Oregon Short Line between here and anti Idaho Falls Fails i Is- Is partly partly partly part part- ly filled with wills empty empt cars Back Dack Biding siding sid Bid ing lag about a mile and a a. half halI south of Idaho Falls is reported to have been filled tilled with fifty empty cars for fora forI a week I |