Show r The Smoke Nuisance x Salt Lake City has but one blemish It is a fair and bea beautiful city except during a few w weeks eks of the winter season Then it rivals iv ls Pittsburg We Ve w would uld willingly leave all this particular fame to the Pennsylvania nia city but the choosing h has not been ours i San Francisco has struggled with its fogs Chicago with its 0 winds ds Pittsburg with the smoke Dayton with its floods and Omaha w with with its h- h ht its t cyclones but bus Salt L Lake e wants no such fame The days of artificial fog with which we struggle at t this time of the year we have tri tried d to to keep a secret unto ourselves We Ve dont don't mention them I when we g go away from home but here like the weather they I I form a co constant stant source of of- conversation and like likewise ise a persistent I cause for cussing We would rem remove ve the cause were it possible but how oh how can can it be done v President John C. C Howard of the Utah Oil Refining company company lays gays there is pending an application for lower rates for the transportation trans trans- J. J p potation of oil from the Wyoming fields to this city If these are granted ranted the price of crude crud oil and its products including gasoline will vill drop correspondingly and then perchance our big consumers I can burn oil and thus materially lessen lessen th the the quantity of I ir smoke Such a contingency would curtail the local market for coal I r. r but the demand from th the outside can always care f for r the th complete I i output of the states state's coal coat mines and if we we get get rid of the smoke well smoke well we believe even eve the coal dealers would rejoice |