Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-05 | Page 8 | Bingham Canyon and Vicinity

Bingham Canyon and Vicinity By The Telegrams Telegram Special News New Service SHORTAGE OF COAL BECOMES SERIOUS Not Enough Fuel in Camp I to Cook Meals for Miners tn In Tto Ti's Nc Nevi IN O BINGHAM Jan G. G G. People In Bingham Dingham Ding Bing- ham ham are arc begging for coal coat A carload of coal came mc Into Bingham Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day night day a night and next morning by 9 o'clock it was gone gono I Schools ha have havo vo not reopened sinco since tho the holidays Many stores aro arc running running run run- ning fling on a very limited supply several soy sev eral having been compelled to close on account of lack of fuel Cuel Among residents the same saino scarcity exists Little children are put to tobed tobed bed hed and covered with blankets tA to th tobo bo ho kept warm Women are struggling gling up the tho snow covered mountainsides mountainsides mountain mountain- sides and cutting tho the scrubby trees tree for tor fuel fue while their husbands mountain mountain-I work in the mines A limited supply of or coke was t In town when tho the famine fomine became acute but hut It Il is 15 now gone Jone Butchers anti and storekeepers sa say that their supply of cooked canned cannell goods is running low especially those foodstuffs that can bo 10 eaten without cooking S S. S O. O S. S orders for renewed stocks s have havo been beensen sen sent t to the city One woman who keeps a n boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse house at the mines begged the time mine for tor enough fuel uel to cook food ooH enough to keep the miners eating until coal could be procured downtown They lent her pounds but no coal has lias yet ct been sent out and the time boarders had their last meal at noon today Fires have havo he been en kept In the tho stove all an of or Thursday afternoon with kindling kin kin- dUns dung but the supply Is limited and will not last I past ast noon on Frida Friday No more moro coal seems to be he In sight eight for and their plight is crit crit- ical The Tho Denver Rio Grande railroad is making desperate efforts to keep I its tracks clear and md to cJ clean an its yards of or snow A carload o of has accompanied the train every morning this week and they are arc put to work I where their efforts will count Thursday Thurs Thurs- da day they labored opening the tracks I Ito to the mines and shoveling in tho time yards Bingham merchants feel that tho the railroad has done its best but hut I tho tIme famine in Bingham has reached a n stage where little tittle children arc aro not I only suffering for Cor lack of ot heat but I of distress food ma may soon follow from rom lack II