Show SLACK COAL NOW CHEAPER AT ZION the reduction in the freight rate on stack coal which went into effect last sunday will mean a saving for the manufacturers of this state of approximately atell forty five thousand dollars a year according cording aL to the figurea figures given out b railroad officials and others it is said about tons of slack coal are consumed in utah each year of this amount over two hundred thousand tons ia is handled by the denver and rio grande and the balance b the union pacific and the oregon short line some time ago the union coal companies announced a reduction of five cents a ton for slack at the mine cutting the price from to 1 2 per ton the denver and rio grande now announces a reduction of fifteen cents a ton in tho the freight rate making a total reduction of twenty cents a ton |