Show UTAH FUEL CO ISSUES confer and dealer to blame for coal famine COULD COULD HAVE AVOIDED PRESENT conditions s supply supply for salt lake might have been purchased in fall ai and summer the utah fuel cin company lust last week added ita its contribution to the liters ture ot of the tile cotil coal famine ira IP letter v addressed to the manufacturers and merchant Mercha association at sat salt lake S L N olty osty ies macager fa wh of A tite company eera pany gave it ua as hie his belief 1 y A that the cont co sumer ts Is to blame for the 1 al 4 shortage because he did not buy bis his eol coal io in the summer and that the dealer la Is to blame because hadid be did act not stork stock bs yards Against tho the coming et of for the company he states uth that atit ita mines are working to their r full and that in the summer A months the vork cork leao ie u thit many miners 1 aro are laid off und and then cannot be found when deeded in the winter 1 f in order to relieve tho the salt lake altu situ i atton he states that the company la Is refusing belter better orders from other sources tho text of the ietter of ex plana tiou la Is aa as follows L ill have a copy of your tion of 0 the esth dinst addre sod to the utah fuel company coro the union xa pa clfo oleo coal company and the km K I 1 m bierer coal company booro rel atle to the he 1 present shortage of coal coad and v t the coal producers to arrange n 1 onlo inu manner aner to relieve the situation altu allon speaking for the utah fuel coca com f y pany I 1 beff beg to advise that we f fully ully re alize tho the seriousness of f the present r ItuaU oa and are doing everything 1 in our power to afford relief our I 1 mines 1 are working full fall time and aro am 1 4 a full output in the fill ing of orders we wear am and have ben been i tor for several weeks past giving prefer rl ence to the utah trade in many cases au refusing blew business offered MS As which would mean a consider considerable ablO larger tonnage during the eummer months than tit will be riven given us i t by anany of the dealers and indue indus al v tres wo we ure are trying sato to supply aply T for your Infer information mation I 1 will say jy vS that one of the principal causes lead vv 1 up to the present shortage it not A athe abe p one is i that theaon the con sumer as a well ell as 09 the dealer made wada no attempt to provide himself during and early hill lull month months wita with a reserve which coull be drawn upon during the time of a shortage under the present growth of this country the should some foresight la in the purchase ot of bis his coal as no operator can work hie his mines to a point of fully supplying aup plying the demand and with daring the winter months L uless during the summer there is a large enough lemand to provide work for the miners more than halt time as otherwise they leave camp and it Is I 1 impossible to t get them back when they are needed it each would the months ot aty auguet august and september store a skir surplus plus bawl baaed upon his abo chances for a ceat mal shortage would woud be ed |