Show I I I I I I II I r I IR RIO I G GRANTIE RAN D' D U RES DECLA-RES ClAn s 's EMPTY CAl A AI I I II I Other Lines Must Route oute Different Dire Directions Coal Dealers ply For but Get No B EGA ECA USE of the condition of its Ihie the Denver Rio Grande has lias issued an embargo against receiving empty cars fr hi other tines lines I I. I a In Iii face of or this the fourteen coal mines mine in lii tb the C county district were furnished but 2 j empties toda today or an au of l less ss than han eighteen cars Ich is s sI hardly to tc ke o ho mf I 91 t j half l lf adU er J s- s r were furnished with arid and loaded load load- ed cd l hut cars There are arc empty cars on omm the PaCific between Suit Salt Lake and Dell which the time Denver Rio Grando has refused d to accept The storage yards in North Salt Lake on the Oregon Ort Short Lino hold another car cars SENT TO ROCK SPRINGS An offer was made o of ninety four cars cais to the time Denver Rio Grande at Ogden lur Tuesday day by D D. 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R Owen city frel freight ht and passenger er agent for Ol th the Southern J pacific hut the Rio Grande refused to accept them because the there were no no facilities to handle them AP As Asa APa a result fifty of or the ninety ninety- ninety four four cars were wre sent to Rock Springs to be loa loaded ed edWIth with coal while four forty still sun remain In lii the Og Ogden en yards ar of ot the Southern Pacific A delegation of local coal dealers called on the Orom road officials yesterday yesterday yes yes- an and inquired if iC the lie int interurban an line could handle coal from Crom Provo to Salt Lake Lal e if It the Rio Grande Granie would would turn it ov over over r to them This delegation I was advised nd that the Orem Hn line could I II iI I handle from t ten n to twenty loa loads s a a. da day The Rio Grande refused to turn over I I the coal and uncIl no relief relle from the short short- short short-I I I ag aa could ho he had hal from this source That the Salt Lake Jako Route I Is I J Ing InS to effect a traffic tic tic- agreement with I j the Utah railway which I Is now operated oper- oper I j b by the time Denver Rio Grande e and I con consists of or a 1 track between Provo Pro and I II I Helper is practically assured although officials d decline cUne to discuss the time matter malter The Time Salt Lake Route however has or ordered ordered or- or or- or dered erd 1000 steel steer coal cars carR for immediate imme imme- diate delivery antI and It is tre ly rumored In railroad circles that t these cars n are areto areto re to be put in service ic In th time the etah coal I fields MAY TAKE OVER LINE The lc report ort i Is current curlEnt that lint the tIme United States Slates Fuel company is to exercise Its Ita right in Its a agreement with the Denver Dener Denyer Den Den- ver yer er Rio Grande an and l tal take e over o the theline lino line and operate it between Provo and Helper the coal to ho handled tho the 1 balance bal ha- 31 ance amice of or the way ay by the time Salt SaH Lake Route It Is understood hero here that ne negotiations no- no to this end are un under underway cI cIway way in New ew York i Tho Time coal situation Is becoming more mor i acute each day The Time International II I Smelting company operating at Tooele Utah is in hi desperate straits from lack lackor of or fuel Cuel as UK I ia Is the Salt SaH Lake Route thin tho Nevada Northern and the Western Pa- Pa PaI Pa-I I c Although the time operating la heads ado of or the I Denver Den fc Rio Hlo Grando have hare given gi out outa I a statement to the effect that their equipment is s In lii goo shape an and havo have by their embargo o against t empties from roam other lines admitted having plenty of or empties ties the time situation is no nearer nearer be beIng being being be- be ing cleared clealo up ui than It was a It w week v ek ago So great reat is the thc demand for COl coal eoal at Murray that healers dealers cannot mako make de deliveries deliveries de- de e- e liveries and the supply Is IR so small mall that the fuel Is being eing doled old out omit In pound JOO lots lotI rime Tho situation Is proving ln a har I on many mam residents of or tho the district Joseph Jo Jo- seph Graham lives five miles from the coal yard at Murray For Fox him to JO 1 get Jet 00 pounds of oC coal he lie Is Js compelled to travel ten Cli miles Saturday he went to the time coal yards ar s sto to got get his 00 pounds of coal and norl found round 7 teams ahead of it him Before his his- turn came the supply had haU beon 1001 ex exhausted exhausted ex- ex hausted and amI he traveled home with sith an empty wn rn The rue mines mimics have no not op operated at capacity for reW more than a a. month an and amid there ha has beNt been practically no service until the he lant two days since Inco Christmas The Z C. 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I factory factor in Salt Continued on page be 3 RIO GRANDE DECLARES Continued from page I 1 J Lake e. e which has been closed for or a week because of oC no coal will attempt to resume operations Thursday The coal cal shortage in iii Idaho is Js worse than it has been for tOI somo some time and the sugar fact factory at Jew Lewiston has haN been heen forced force to close on ac account of or lack of ruc fuel 37 CARS BROUGHT IN IlL The The- Denver Rio Grande brought Into Salt Lake for fOl the tho twenty four hours ending at noon today thirty thirty- seven foe carloads of coal for this city None one of ot this h had d been spotted at noon however but the the information was given at Mr Mi Il Rockwell's office that the greater reater portion would be on tho the dealers dealers' sidings s this afternoon Mr Ir Rockwell's chief clerk said that he the reason for the embar embargo o on empties 5 from fro oli r nr lines s was was was' made necessary I because c the Denver Rio Grande Grunde ha has hasi hasa a i sufficient number of cars to lo run the tho for tot five six fla It al also or days u was explained that weather conditions prevented prevented pre pro vented tho ho road from Crom giving hin tho tim mines minesa a a. sufficient t number of ur cars to run at capacity Claim also alFo is made that coal shipments shipments ship ship- ments are arc being given gen g en preference over dead ead loads and weather conditions and anti not lack hack of oC equipment is Js hindering hindering- a faster mO movement of ot coal The cars car furnished the mines minE's to today arc aro sufficient to permit tho the minis mineR to torun torun to torun run 7 per cent capacity according to railroad officials although the producers producers pro pro- pro pro- do not a agree ree with this |