| Show CHEAPER FUEL six dollars per ton is too high a figure lo io chare char thai ge e for even a good article of coal in this city at any of the mines in either utah or wyoming that ship coal to this point the cost of g is if not more than irom eig eighty cents t to 0 one dollar per ton two dols dollars p per e r ton is as high hh a figure as ought to be charged for f freight from e yen the most distant mines hence nence the cost of the coal laid down lit in this city ought not to exceed three dollars per ton if our information is gor cpr this is in fact about the actual first cost of al most of the theoal joal sold in III this city A hundred per cent profit on such a staple as coal is entirely too much twenty five percent per cent would be a hadd handsome some profit making all due allowance tor for capital invested wear aud and tear on plant salaries etc now that cold weather is approaching a tendency to a drop in the price of coal which has lately been shown here is a highly gratifying circumstance the price of coal ought to come down it is so BO abundant and so near at hand band that there is no justification for maintaining the figures that have heretofore prevailed |
