Show WITH 1 COIL I SOO sow T ike lb I 1 ENT W D kracia maclean an ui th harp luto rests hakea fart part in meeting to bring down tee market elices 1 order to put pu t into immediate new lew coal rates from utah and ana southern born wyoming points to F eastern e oregon and Wait washington hington dedd id upon 1 at the conference between of the me oregon short line aud the oregon cregon washington hallway 4 navigation company with coal operators ot orators at portland ore recently J A I 1 coves general freight ot of thy the oregon short line last monday wired the interstate com m erbo at washington washing a C ifor for a dispensation eliminating th tha usual delay tho rule requires thirty da dais 4 no flee of tf a rate change chango la in the at ante tte of the now rates are lewer lower and officials of the railroad to give 1 their utah wyoming shippers immediate yet aei so they will be able to com f tB of alls nature are usually gran wl ed by the commission up on request reque at and it Is that okia one will be granado and the go into effect at once ac cording carding to reeves the request for lower rates waa was brought about by a reduction from the kirby and creek cek districts in northern boti ing to spokane and other western points on coal thes r duc tlona were given by the burlington and northern pacific roils aa a coal men of utah and an south era wyoming then declared that could not compete under the no new conditions and asked for an equall bation general freight agent heaves says ay that the shippers are completely satisfied with tho granted reductions which run from twenty five fifty centa cents a ton the meeting lasted three daya days R D t traffic manager of the oregon washington railway and navigation company represented that road toad among coal men represented were 0 W cushing and W D maclean depre enting seating the sharp interests J F hrametz and U D II 11 pape of he the cen aral coal and coke compan NN 11 llam liam goton go ton independent coal abd coke company T J 0 brien 1 of the gunn quealy coal company and E S 8 of ogden NN yom ins coal 1 and coke company billy maclean general sal sat s agent of the consolidated fuel company and formerly with the utah fuel company Is sald to have taken a prominent part in a the meeting I 1 ng to aud alad to have had bad to do towards bringing about this larger market tor for carbon county coals in the early days of carbon county when the lea of the sharp interests hereabouts hereabout a were not inot even a hole in the ground maclean as a boy waa was trapping up around winter quarter quarters and clear creek when he went after beaver ind and in gm general eral he h went at ter them toi fot keep keeps ae As a eales sales agent tor for coal hie hla persistency and a nd tenacity nover never wanes ae as Is IlIn fed ted in the story from tid nd |