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Show HORSES AND THE ROADS. A citizen ordered coal yesterday from a coal company com-pany in this city, and the answer returned was that possibly the order could be filled in a month, that the company had plenty of coal, but it was impossible impossi-ble to get teams to deliver it. That is a reminder that this winter in Salt Lake has been a frightful one on teams. In much of the winter there has not been frost enough in the ground to hold up wagons and animals. There has been much rain, and the result is that never in the history of the city have the work animals presented such a pitiable appearance as right now. On many wagons people see naturally fine horses reduced to half skeletons, skele-tons, while on many of the express wagons the horses are in such a condition that it would be an act of mercy to take 'them out and shortt them. A person coming into the city right now and judging by the condition of the teams, would conclude ours are a most cruel people.' In the old days when Abe Gould had the monopo-- monopo-- ly on coal he had his own horses. As a whole they were the finest lot of team horses ever seen in this v city. But there is reason enough why the coal com panies cannot own their own teams. When the roads are good in the summer time, coal hauling is reduced , to a minimum. When the roads are bottomless in the winter, the demand for coal is insatiable. One question ; for the Council' to keep awake nights on is to try to think out how the condition of the streets can be improved to enable men who own horses to keep them in such order that they can do faithful work- |