Show EFFORT EFFORTs EFFORTs' TO AVERT FUEL FAMINE Special to The Telegram gram CHICAGO Aug 3 Following 3 efforts already made to avert a repetition of last winters winter's fuel tuel famine in the West additional additional addi addI- orders have been issued to local agents of the Union Pacific railroad to advise dealers of the urgent necessity of or laying In their supplies Immediately Attention At At- Attention is called to the fact that the prohibition prohIbition prohibition pro pro- against transportation companies engaging in coal trade after atter May 1 1 1908 has stopped all development work in this direction by railroads making it impossible ble for a large territory to draw its supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies from the Wyoming fields Supplies must now be sought in Colorado or east of the Mississippi Good results have followed the action of the Interstate Commerce commission at the tho request of the Union Pacific In authorizing a reduction of 25 26 cents a ton on coal Chipped to Washington Idaho and Nevada before September 1 1 The company's company's company's com com- pany's object in putting this rate reduction reduction reduction tion into into- effect Is to induce dealers to toor order ordel order or or- der del fuel now when it can be readily handled handled han han- rather t than to watt wait as s they h Jid ll last winter f ie until transportation n o io ios Is s difficult if not Impossible By September 1 local Union Pacific freight lt agents are required to report the amount and kind of coal each dealer has hasIn hasIn hasIn In stock on that date and If dealers have failed to get their supplies to report the reason On Its Us own account the company has stored tons of or Eastern coal and states that the public can only be assur assured d of fuel next winter by dealers filling their sheds now |