| Show NO RELIEF IN GOAL COAL SITUA SITUATION nON Snipe er vital Information on Utah coal was ou nut train two to witness eH Cs before boore the tue Joint legislative probing thIs morning Coiner Gamet state coal mum inspector there lied been heen cry ery littia it If In any hy by legitimate cot companIes to 10 operate coal 1111 II ell ellund und II 11 O 0 WillIams general manager of the Utah l uel company testified that commercial prosperIty bach increased through to ro cent years that thai It 1111 lied laken ri 11 Ire and sudden jump Jan 1 passing nil paled lIlted bounds and running away with all 1111 precedent Nn Nit hope wo held out for tor tie tier coal I I v I hue demand increased over 00 per pilI cent In southern luau tot tor coal timid over I her ir cant callI In III Halt aall sinea time the build buildIng lug Ing of the tit smelters Thu Utah Fuel luel has lit hope or of increasing Its III more lImIt Il a tow few thousand 1 tons Ion per year The Tite stilts bringing Into question time tithe t to coal cOlli lands havu retarded make It unlikely that the Iho Fuel Lit least will trill thure Itar to 10 open opell mille on onti tho ti questioned PropertY until time the suits tt ore re J It costs coll from tu to to In open 1111 1 goal coni mIne on 1111 Il Ii la paying I mind tiO o tar tur am r dC lar II no independent cOin patties have this capital Instead they inns hue been tumid flouts have tione any uny great or of or applied for or ears carll and rates Nr went w nt on th lh stand Dt at 10 0 and ir 11 at 1130 Fol Following lowing theIr te a recess H was taken until 10 Ott on Thursday more witnesses will wUl lie be to talk on matters COST or OF COAL The Tue taken up this morn mornIn In ing was the th cost of 01 coal conI Mr said that the tho average cost cst In Utah on onboard board cars tot transportation to Salt Luke LIe was 18 The miner It at Sun Suit gets 65 55 cents a ton It costs 35 33 centa for materIal and 1 30 10 cents for tor haulage to the d These tin fig figures lures ures vary In ti different mines to 10 multo n a total aveo ot of Gen Gon oral eral danage WIlliams testified the in hIs tomes mines averaged Pel Ilet PelIon Ion lie He denied that the thc rate front from Gate to Snit Salt Lake happens to tobe tobe be the same as that from Hock Springs by of an agreement lIe Ile also denied dould that the QC ir coal Ulli In Suit Sult Lake Lako Is kept at till agreed figure FollowIng the tc testimony of oC both till Air Thomas Alt Williams Att Atty Ed Allison and Atty L representing the two bIg railroads were glen given I a free freo opportunity to cross me Ine them ThIs chance was made much of by AttIc Atty Allison Js s to the price secured by the unities mInes AIr Ir Thomas testified that It was wall 3 f tot r lump coal 3 for tor nut coal for Cor mine run and tot tOI To this Is ad add added rd ed u rate ata of oC 17 In freight to lO Salt Sult Lake to secure the figure from whIch the retailer begins to lo muke moke proUt That leae t 1 a ton for or the retailer r 60 0 cents n tai lor or the wagon lit In figuring th tim total cost In the tho citizens coal bIn bins As to the thu gluer 1 tendency In Mr I Thomas declared that there thre are no now l sA miners employed than lt at olY city time In thO lat last 10 years In 1903 there thero were coat coal miners mIllers in 10 the state now there Cre ore only 1895 h pr dla 01 on the ather hald hand has increased c cb b 20 er cent dil due to better methods electrIc trains In the tho mIns mines and the erection o of convenient loadIng stations The mule er car has dl disappeared tram from the principal mines On thIs same topIc Mr Air testified that lUI could use uso more They make over 30 per day but It 1 is hard to hold them in III Ohio and the they were eXp the same ho he saId ni as m men n would not nol remaIn at work II lit ono onu place very long O time the matter mattor ot at transportation was taken up Mr Thomas that the no Rio Orand started out In splendId shape to the V Twenty Twant now re put Int into commIssIon but wIthIn a yer very f al 6 Of suffered damage and 14 were put o out t of commIs commIssion sion sian Then the deep snows came and It Ivas hard hal to buck the show In iii getting over oer the summIt sometimes tour four en engines sines gines being requIred to brIng over one Je trall train In two sections Mr Williams on this point testified that it requIres over Oe two ears to get new engines and that the railroad hoti done everything In Is Its power to 10 get the coal out nut had hed buit built spurs sidings and erected platforms Allison brought out the fact lii In cross examination that there are now lucre lre ears cars more engines and moregen more gen erdl facilities titan ever before nud that durIng the recent coal famine the gent er superintendent the general man managar agar nger the superintendent of oC ard amid other officials had given their personal attention to the task of oC Coat coal trins trains and hud had finally created a special wih with n a man whose duties were vere to tofel fel see that these trains moved regardless or of other oIlier HOW T AI S ABE AnE MADE UP Air Ir Thomas threw 1 a light on tit charges that coal had been delayed at Helper and In long strIngs or of cars He declared the coal coni came camo cameto tl to thello poInts In little strings to I ho mado UP Into trains there and that Ihal al all the coal COlli brought In hi one da day was moved the next day This le led tonn to an erroneous opinion that the cars were wro delayed there ther TI The grade over the mountain la Is 20 0 miles long and from 3 to 4 per cent cont Mr Air thought this accounted for forthe the tho rate rat although ho he thought It was wall 1 a IUle little high The In Sail Bait Lake ke Int last year car was tons The Tho demand ha increased Increase per COlt cent within the tho year the output ha has only Increased 79 ver Ier cent anti It Is not ot of much greater greMer Increase I is now Ill ILU output ot of tons end oud the limit Is under tinder tOiS touts Less thal than 12 cent of the hue nil 1110 cal coal and coke lellA Utah The total output If consumed here would not supply the market eat ent oC at the tho Bock Springs company TIa coat coal II is divided purposes Into railroad ena industrial coal conI and do coal coni each class a selling on a special tariff Mr Ir nA abut about a rae rate Ind amid n a railroad sion lo Ito did not 1101 favor either r on Ilo tIto that thal It If the rate wera ivero dropped on Rio 1110 Orande I coal ool it Il would Ihn 01 Springs Product out nul of this mol mar market ket and Utah could not imet along wih with only the one Poule of supply The hearing wi but bo continued to tomorrow morrow alan along time the S samoa Inee lines |
