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Show H jj Hl'tHI TIIK silll.rt. B mi to be hoped Ihe movement Inlll- H if' altil ly Myor Haskin to litre ft H . People's rallrood to one ol lUe col H j I 0,1 j, will take root and grow without H .' I dtl.y. It I- hero to lo noted, to his H J honor' great credit, that ho has ilone M ' bit full part toward ireventlnK rae. l callty and frm J In the dealing of the H "1 tomllne, and been foremost on all ; , occasions when securing decent treat- H infnt to thopeoile was theolject In H ' view; It waii, therefore, peculiarly H t, fitting that hu lo tliu head of 11 move- H ' ruect looking ts the complete tmancl- H pitlon of the public from the Increasing. H Hi rail Join In which they have been H$ held ky the unscrupulous monopoly HI for jeari. Let him go ahead, and Hb j, thtre will he a niOTtnicnt to sustain HB him such at will aiuounl, lu effect, to M '; unanimity. j r There la no serious difficulty In HB , which cemmuulty may to Inrolf ed t but what there la way out of It, HB ! and the coal question hereabout BBS It the moit sirlous one that haa besit Halt Lake City BH I of l'ato years. Tho aftlcle iken of la I one of the prime necessities of llf; It la abaolulely Indlsionsablo. Time was wheniiom) was uiel here, hut that H was In the days when business ws Bf ,' alugglahandour young men hajara- BBf j I plo time during the summer lo get to- BB gethet a winter's aupply of wood from ! the canyons, which they invariably did. A revolution In this respect haa taken place, aim revolution do not re. trace their progreaa or reverie the motion mo-tion of their wheela. It no longer jiaya to haul wood when doing o requires re-quires the bard labor of a man aud two bortea for perhaps Ihrte daya to bh I et one or two cordi,eacli cord obtalncil BH 4 putting the tupplt ao much farther BH away and higher up, the question thus BBJ becoming one of how long the acces. flj i slble supply will last; aud the amount BBJ, (I for which the wood will sell when BBJ J obtained represents no moro H, j than a fraction of what It haa H 1 oot In toll, wear and tear and properly H, ' j InVolved. llnUm, to ure wood re-H re-H j quires one lo bu oonatantty replenishes replenish-es lag the fire, some 0110 else to Le con-H con-H ' tlnually reducing 'it to proper dlmen-H dlmen-H sloes, and In cold weather a cord of H wood worth $10 would lit about at B long aa the hauler was In bringing l:. B That Is too primitive a condition for us B 4 cow. The Ihrte days srwnt In hauling Hj l a cord of wood applied to teaming In V A E the lowlands would bring at leant as H I much and, under proper conditions, H ( would buy enough coal to last a frugal M 1 jj ', family all wluter. That Is tlio differ-H differ-H j ' ence,and Is of Itself a sufficient reply H J J to the remedy against the coal sharks B'l auggesttdby a friend yittetday, that H we "freeio Hum cut" by returning to B J I wood for full. Wo cau't do It, you Bfll 1 know. No, we must havo coil, a thousand BB) tons a day for six months toiome. At BBJ the buslucta Is I elng conducted now, B the profits accruing to tho railroads H and the corublnu cannot fall H I ii far nhort of out-half of the whole B amount received, hlch would foot up H the enormous total of at least $2,tOO a BB day! A railroad tj Coilvllla or any BB other available mlnt would reduce the BB I rice of coal front I'J resent llgurea BB say forty ler cent, thus saving the BB " people $'.',0J0 n day und,by kooplng the ( maikel supplleJ, oould count on at least l,UJ0 for Itself beildesl la not such a showing all the Inducement that ociilibeasked? The suggestion that the lVople's road BB ' ,j lutursiit tho Utah Central at aumi eon- BB venlent point say Kimball's Much BB Is a good one, for the reason that most BB of the grading Is already done and BB I I could be purchased cheaply; the Iron, BB ' 7 1 tits an 1 rolling stojk could bo easily B, f j obtained and laid and the road be pour- Bfl I Jug coal Into our midst oudecert terms 1 audatllvlngratraallaroundlieforethe l aeasou was half over. It only needs u mastir sjlrlt In tho lead, backed Bj' by lulllcleut capital to com- I, pletn the road; this woul 1 be so slight comparattvtly and the profits upon the Bl luvtstment to largo Inevitably, that Bm the enterprise should arise from Its Bj par bed aud walk forth fully lua- BJ ' terlalUed utonce, I.tt thuagreemint Bfl I between all loucerned and with any flj , other couipauy whose rails or a part Br thereof may be utlllted, be a stub and- twist, copi er-rlveted and brais-bound Bi 1 one,to that once fried from the tlutthts : of the combine we may thenotforward B and forever alttr be free. flj It Is a condition, nota theory, that fl we have to deal with. |
