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Show PRICE OF ALL COAL EXCEPT NUT REMAINS UNCHANGED THIS YEAR Despite Reduction at Nines, Retailers Will Ash the Same Figures. Despite tba fast that ooal mine operators opera-tors of Utah and Wyoming have reduced the mine price of lump eoaJ II cents a too. that of nut coal U cents a ton and that of alack It cents a ton. for summer storage rates, there will be no reduction In tha price of either lump or alack coal In Salt Lake City, according to the announcement an-nouncement made this morning by local retail coal dealers. They declare that tha reduction of II cents a ton on lump coal doea not pay for the extra trouble aad lues that they will have to go to In trying to store lump coal, nor does the reduction of 21 cents a ton on alack warrant any reduction in the retail price during the aummer months. Effective thla morning, all of the local de Jsrs announced an-nounced a reduction of II cents a ton on nut ooal, the price to remain In affect until August 1. For tha first time In two years the railroad companies havs refused to make any reduction in the hauling of ooal for I K. luniHiar trmA nr fr ItAlUR OUT- poses. rn msrusainr the attmms ths Den-rsr Den-rsr ft Rio Oraode. 8. V. Derrah. as 1aant general frelffht agrni for the company, said : "Durlns; ths last two summers the arnument has bsso put up to us for a redaction of frsiajht rstee on ooal divtasr the summer months on ths ground that It would induce many people to store coal and thus reduce the pree-aure pree-aure durlns; the winter month It was also argued that ws were not able to ha nd 1 e enough coal In case of ex t re m e cold weather for a time in winter. Our ex perlenca has demonstrated that few people hare taken advantage of the reduced re-duced rates to store coal. Again, the argument that ws raigM be unable to handle enough ooal for thla city at any time will be a thins; of the past by naxt fall. Ths Denver ft Rio Grande Is spending; over 16,000.000 In improving Its main Una Mi Utah and the purchase of additional equipment and motive power, all of which will be ready early next fall. Ws feel confident that we will be able to handle all the coal that is needed In Salt Lake City or any other point In Utah touched by our lines by October 1 next, which will be ample time for the winter coal business.'' C. I. Tuttle, assistant general freight sgant for the Oregon Short Line, said that neither that road nor the Union Pacific Pa-cific would put In a summer rata for coal this year. In discussing the matter this morning Henry F. Fernet rom. manager for the Bamberger Coal company, said: "The retail dealers do not feel that ths mine reduction on lump and alack ooal Is suffl 'lent to warrant them In making any reduction In the retail price, especially in view of ths fact that fsw people would store lump coal to any extant at a reduction re-duction or IB rents a ton. For us to store this kind of ceaj in oar yards to any large amount will coat us more than the It cents reduction will amount to. Pew people ever store slack ooal. so thai ws cannot sss why a reduction should he mads on that class of ooal. "Soma time ago the local retail dealers deal-ers made a proposition that we believed would have resulted In the storage of much coal In Salt Lake City this summer sum-mer had it been followed, we tried to get tha mine owner to reduce the price of all kinds of coal at tha mines 2S cents a too. This reduction, in part at least, has been granted by the mine owners. Ws also tried to get the railroad companies com-panies to make a reduction on freight rates of SI oenis s ton during May. June and July and promised that If they would do ao we would also make a ut of 25 cents a ton on our part. This would have meant that lump coal would have sold In this city during the three roonthif at p a ton. with coirespondtng reductions reduc-tions on other kind a. The railroad com panles refused to meet our proposition. Therefore, there will he no reduction except ex-cept In the price of nut coal." |