| Show FUTURE OF UTAH FUEL CO COO ownership and management depends much auch on test case now flow pending in court back in philadelphia DENVER aug 6 are george J gould and E II 11 hai riman to combine their vast coal properties in the west and separate them from their railroad corporations as the there re suit of the recent agreement of those magnates which has brought peace in the western railroad world ahk is the all absorbing question which local railroad officials are trying to solve joseph F vaile chief counsel of the denver and rio grande has gone 1 eist 1 ast 1st it is understood to meet goald E if harn roan man practically has a monopoly of the coal business of wyoming and the utah fuel company has holdings in colorado and utah estimated to be worth from to 20 the commodity clause of the hepburn act requires the railroads to dispose of these immense properties the law went into effean on the first of last may alay and in holding their properties up to this time the denver and rio grande ia is supposed to be acting in violation of the law and subject to a ahne of heavy penalties the go government ern ment ho however ever recognized the fact that the recent panic lade made it a difficult matter for the railroads to eckre purchasers for uch such imme n properties and tho tha law was not enforced against ot the roads instead the railroads contested the legality of the act and brought suit to test it in the district courts at philadelphia it was generally understood that pending the deci decision bion of the test case no action would be token taken by thu tha government the policy of harriman has been to separate hid his coal interests from the railroads proper and therefore comply with the law he has encouraged cou raged this idea in wyoming by giving coal operators along the line of the union pacific all of bf the advantage possible in marketing their output and his policy has been beer very different from that of gould during the time which gould and flar harriman riman were not on the most peaceful of terms harriman made plans to invade the coal fields field of colorado coal lands to the value of i were ere purchased in the southwestern pal pait t of the state and had planned to build from flar harriman riman a d southern pacific connection in ariz arizona ona to these fields the fight be between aseen the two interests even eien extended to this immediate territory and the harriman and gou gould id road now have a suit pending of new the supreme court in mexico testing citing tf the rights of both to use certain rights of com companies bantes these hese coa coas ba in in anu tit southwestern to way N ay part of the state |
