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Show MAY HAVE SALE FOR UTAH SLACK Negotiations are progressing between the coal companies of Utah operating in Carbon and Emery counties and a number of firms on the Pacific coast manufacturing briquettes for the sale of the slack dumps at the Utah mines. For more than a year reports have been in circulation that the coal slack of Utah would be put to use, but negotiations nego-tiations fell through with the obtaining of slack coal from Australia by the coast manufacturers. The Utah Fuel company, the United States Fuel company and the American Fuel company are interested in the negotiations. It is understood that a lower freight rate will be asked from the railroads on slack coal from the mines to southern California as soon as the deal is completed. A. B. Apperson, vice president and general manager of the United States Fuel company, said the coal companies in Utah would welcome a field for slack coal. The slack is taken to southern California and there mixed with low-grade low-grade crude oil and distillates of crude oil and is used in the residence district not connected with gas. Henry W. Stohl of Los Angeles, the head of a briquette firm, is conducting the negotiations. nego-tiations. It is said that several hundred thousand dollars will be expended annually with the coal companies of Utah under the contract for slack. |