| Show I I GOAL COIL SHORTAGE ALRE ALREADY OY EXISTS Very Serious Condition Confront Confronting ing Salt Lake in iii Regard to Fuel for Coming Corning Winter THOSE WHO CAN CANARE ARE STORING STORI Consumption C I II iii This fil Cl City Ity has lias hi 11 In t S o r Per pr ct Cent O OH firer er t Ago Supply of Minors Short ShO Tho Tito reason r a ol why hy Sat Salt Lake dealers de lers are aro ot piling up storage coat coal In their yards yard Is because o householders hou busine s houses hous end and arll manufacturing establish establishments meats ments havo been storing It In III their private bins tin said a 0 prominent coal cool dealer this morning So to that ex cx extent extent tent they are providing against a 1 o rainy day da and against the shortage of ot next lext hex winter vinter season Henson that Is 13 sure suie to tl conic come There hero Is 15 many a I private collar cellar or bin bp that is now lio full Cul to t Us Its capacity The Tho ot or houses tO B are arc the tho ones aries likely to suffer be been en cu caute ufe e they can cal hardly lay In a I big bl stock of ot coal when they tho are not certain but that the premises they thc occupy may b be besold 3 sold lold over their the It heads hents or 01 wanted by b bown owners own rs for tor other parties CONSUMPTION INCREASED Further Inquiry among local dealers brought out tho Iho statement that the In Increase Increase crease of ot coal consumption In title this city and legion Is fully 25 2 per leI cent It not moreover more over oyer the tha con cone consumption of ot a year ago ngo and Ind noted In title this Increase are arc the smelt smelters Ame Ameer ers era er and railroads It I Is claimed that the Salt Bait Lake Ll valley smelters are ate using tons of ot coal cool per month that Is W of o coke while at nt alone the Increase of ot coat coal consumption Is s 2500 tons bus in III round numbers per Iler er month over oer the tho corresponding period of nt o last year yeat It 1 Is admitted that If It cop copper copper per should hould drop ro so fa aa as ni to reduce tho production this would woul effect a I corres corre corresponding corresponding reduction In the consumption of ot coal It I Is said aM that the dally daIly dal con consumption In Salt Lake Iko City CI is 1000 tons taos and und that the consumption by b tha thu rail railroads rail railroads roads in this region Is la not n t less ies than tons tl a I month One an dealer re reports Ie ports that parties who were consuming ISO lO tons a U Q month a ct I year yeal ago are now noti consuming 32 20 tons Then thero there Is Ia an 01 increasing number of oC steam plows arid an traction tracton engines being Introduced Into into the arid regions each of ot the larger machines eating up some sepia CO 10 0 tons tono of O coal per pOl month The sugar ugar factories of or Utah And Ind Idaho aro burning to 00 tons per pet lay day do und and nt with wih the tile in increase crease creaso in the number of ot mining camps campa arid and of o the railroad business there thero Is nn nit t Immense Increase of ot fuel going out In that direction if It it I for tho the smelters said sald a 0 dealer denier today thero there would be no shortage of coal in Salt Lake GAS CUTS LITTLE LITLE FIGURE The Tho introduction of ot gas gag for fuel Cuel will willIt wi willit It It I conceded help hehl some but not ma materially 1 and anti the use ot of the coke from ram tho he can be considered l las as mUcH of ot a figure The rail railroad road rond eve arc art in un 11 better beter shape than ever to haul coat coal ml on account of the tue Increase In tho the j number of ot their locomotives and ld rolling stock tout but the business ot or the tl country has taken such leaps forward that Otto tie railroads are aro arl yet yot away behind the tho requirements that are aro being made modo of ot them SUPPLY OF OS SHORT The Thio present output of ot cool coal In the Intermountain region Is Iii estimated at nt tons per month mont but that Is nit alt ni taken at on one e by consumers The pro producing po mincing companies nrc short of ot miners ono one reason being that American min miners mm ers era prefer working In the tho mineral minerai in preference to the coal mines A rep representative re Uve of oC ono one large largo producing company said today ho was VIB 50 1 men short hort with wih no immediate prospects of oC making up the Ole deficiency The Tho general Impression among wholesalers and all re ro retailers toler Is ta a a very ery serious condition confronts the thu IntermountaIn public In Inthe Inthe inthe the matter mater of oC shortage of ot coal eoal and Bomb Boms thinking must bo be done dono to devise ways nays and amid to meet tile the problem |
