| Show BIG COAL YARD PLANNED TO AID AIDI AIDIN AIDIN I IN OVERCOMING I 1 i FUTURE FAMINE I II I I Standard Fuel Company Will Spend t tin in Establishing the Plant There will be no coal shortage in Salt Lake Lako next winter The biggest coal yard west of Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago will provide an adequate supply supply sup ply of ot fuel for the tho city The rim site for this Immense plant has been acquired with the exception of the Greek church property A heal deal Is Isnow Isnow isnow now practically consummated whereby the Standard Fuel company will get et title to this plot the purchase price being fixed at The building Is to be razed and the ground it occupies occupies oc oc- oc will be given giyen over o to bins dumps etc This will give the com company pan an area feet teet which is the south half halt haltof of the block bounded by Third South and Fourth South and Third West and Fourth West streets with the exception tion of or a corner at Fourth South and Fourth West Vest feet Early in the spring of 1916 the Standard Fuel company decided to undertake un this huge hinge project and to that end L. L H. H Curtis president and C. C T. T Worley Vorley general manager of the company com corn pany made an extended tour of the East visiting every large coal yard 3rd west of Pittsburg Among the plants they saw was that of the Consumers' Consumers Coal company com corn pany pan Chicago and It is after this the time most modern plant in America for the handling of coal that the tho Salt Lake yar yard will be patterned Rail lines JInes will be built across the property with spurs pur leading to its vanous various various vari van ous parts and storage facilities for tons tom of or coal will be installed along the time upper line of the plot Here provision will wiH be made to handIe handle has han dIe dle nil all lump coal by the carload han A device Is to bo be installed whereby the thear car ar load and all is to be taken up bodily bodi bodi- ly h and dumped Into the bins It will wUl 1 be beIlle benc 1 be nc only installation of ot Its kind in an any I Western Vestern yard The nut slack and othor other sizes are aro to tobe tobe tobo be bo handl handled d by means of or a huge huSe crano crane and clamshell buckets Where hero the cost of or handling coal orall of or all clas classes es now r runs ns from 30 to 50 cents a a. ton the new ime arrangement will en enable enI enable en- en able toe tile com company pan to do the same me work I at not notto to exceed 6 cents cent r The he plan of ot the com company pan t K is far tar I reaching By providing this huge storage storage stor stor- I a age e capacity the mines of ot the company corn com pany can run to full capacity during d com I ring ringI I the tho summer months the tonnage e to be stored here This will m keep the mines busy and the pay rolls roUs going during luring the period that is usually one of or stagnation Then during the winter months the company compan can easily take care of ot its other markets when tho the demand is heavy hea without having hain to worry about I Its Salt Lake customers If It Utah can cai be given Iven an adequate quate public utilities commission and rail raU service and cars S so that th the tho mines l can run un at per ier cent cont capacity and if It tho roads will grant the cent 60 reduction reduction tion lion in freight ht for tor which the dealers are arc asking we can give the people coal at a dollar cheaper and we propose to todo todo do 10 it said Mr oIl Worley Vorley this morning We Ve arc Installing a 0 plant that will cost us nearly neaily when the tin fin touches are put Iut on Salt Lake must not ho bo made to suffer another fuel Cuel famine like the present one Tho The ThoI I cost CORt of the time plant will be bo more than taken caro care of ot In Increased speed In handling handlin our product and amid giving our mines an outlet for their output during tho the summer As As It is at present we ve are arc help help- less tess Wo We e are ate at the tIme mercy of ot the rall- rall loads f. This morning wo we received six cars of or coal which was as mined on the time of or December while coal that was as mined as earl early as the of ot tho the month is still standing on the tracks tracks' somewhere sonic some where between here and tho the mine During tho tim next summer bummer we ue will store enough coal that we wo will not not bo IJo caught helpless like this and we are arc going also to establish two rates r one for tor summer months which will wUl be bo a n. reduction of the tho winter months prices In an endeavor to have the public co cooperage cu- cu opera operate te with UK us In preventing tho the possibility pos poe of ot another j such uch calamity a as Is Isnow now flow on us ua |
