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Show A WAY OUT. At the Coalville mines, about twenty-six miles from this city about eighty miles by rail there is plenty of coal to be purchased at $1.50 per ton. Twenty-five cents per ton for loading it and the same for unloading ,and 50 cents for hauling would be ample reward for a common-carrier railroad. rail-road. But as roads are run nowadays, the same freight is charged from Coalville as from Rock Springs, away off in Wyoming. A trolley line to Coalville ought not to cost more than $200,000. We think any man of means could get contracts in this city for 100,000 tons of coal annually for five years to come at $4.00 per ton. The right of way up City Creek canyon ought not to cost more than $50,000 from the present City Council of this city. It looks like a good speculation. Will net a hundred men in this city put in $2,000 each and take their pay in coal? |