Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-12-23 | Page 1 | End of Coal Famine is Now in Sight; Big Sugar Mills to Close

END OF COHL FAMINE IS NOW IN SIGHT- BIG SUGAR MILLS TO CLOSE Borne degree of relief from the present tensity In the coal situation is promised within the next week or ten days. The Utah Fuel company has 'been Informed that within the time, named .the two big sugar factories which are drawing their fuel from this company will have made their annual clean-up .and drawn their fires. This will throw a considerable amount of coal into domestic use, and give a pleasanter tone to the situation all around. The sugar companies use a large quan-tlty quan-tlty of slack coal every day; this slack . coal will be used to supply a demand for that kind of coal' that Is now being filled with mine run coal, and the run of mine will be diverted to domestic use in Salt Lake. While, this gain - will add. considerably consid-erably to the volume now coming to the city, it is not enough to rob-the situation of all its futenesa. The mines are op- ' eratlng Sundayt) and holidays, and all the men who apply for work are sent to the shafts at once ". Locally, the situation Is neither better nor worse , than it has been for some weeks. So long as the mine 6utput remains re-mains the same, this . will remain true. i If any cf the .mines .should shut down for , any cause' the supply would be cut off. but the Utah Fuel company, promises that this shall not occur. The movement of coal Is made the first order of business by the railroad companies, though on some days, as for instance yesterday, little lit-tle or no coal arrived. This shortage of arrival Is compensated for in the long run by the arrivals of later days doubling doub-ling up. So far the coal dealers are supplying sup-plying demands as fast as they can. and . no one has actually suffered for lack of fuel. The Idaho ' sugar factories will also finish up their year's work soon, and this may result In the diversion by the- Kem-merer Kem-merer Fuel company of many tons to this city, though, of course. It must be understood under-stood that the streps In the North Is even greater than it Is In Salt Lake and local consumption may not be benefited much ; by this.