| Show A DELIVERER WANTED the keynote sounded by the NEWS th in the matter of the public grievance against the coal dealers guilty of fraud through short weight has met with an early and a gratifying response the grand jury in their final report to i judge adge zane yesterday yeat erday afternoon paid official attention to the matter and the city council has under consideration an ordinance having for its object the protection of the community against this claw class of wrong the result of the a agitation will be that for a time at least there will be no attempt to cheat a oun oo neumer bumer by charging him for 1500 pounds a of coal under the fear of ax exposure ure and of a comfortable fine it Is in probable there will be a material increase crew in car carbon bou selling hoi honesty lesty fur for all of which everybody interested will beauly be duly thankful but the good work should not end with this honest waight and honest coil coal are all right so far as an they go but at the rate of per r ton they do not 0 go o far enough what at to is wanted to is a reduction in price and this we take it can 0 only aily be secured through the construction st and operation and maintenance 00 by local capital of ft 4 competing road to the coal beds by which we are surrounded that a city of cople peo so fortunately situated as we are in this respect should bein be in the matter ater of fuel so completely at the mecy of foreign and BOU soulless corporations as salt lake is is one of the great mysteries and great blun blunders dero of our gur industrial development no other case in this or any other country offers to it the wise heads among us have long anticipated the condition by which we are confronted and they have deplored the failure of the vail various efforts to remedy it perhaps if they had bad been more emphatic artic in 10 the expression of their views vies and more energetic er getic in carrying them out the publio might inight have rallied mote more hearty ily to their calls perhaps the masses are more to blame than the men from whom the inception of such projects is expected perhaps but why waste time stine to in suppositions we are paying I 1 dearly enough for our shortsightedness slid and all eyes are looking anxiously for for deliverance la 18 there not dot in the comm community unity a man with sufficient courage and enterprise to meet the crisis aad solve the problem it if it is in too large an undertaking for one man cannot a combination ot of men be effected for the purpose tor for the party or parties who have the nerve to IZ grapple with and conquer the difficulty there is in readiness readi nees a large stock of public sympathy and gratitude which chit it is true may not be quoted very high in ila financial reports but is a good thing to have nevertheless as well as a handsome return and sure dividends ou the means put into the investment who wants this guer guerdon clon in oo co of the services named first come first served |
