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Show KING COAL. In tho old days in Salt Lake coal was retailed for $4.00 per ton. As railroad facilities increased, new mines opened and Improved facilities for mining, loading and transporting coal were introduced, intro-duced, the price was raised to $4.50 per short ton. As the great bridge of rock and stone across the north end of great Salt lake Is near-ing near-ing completion and the expense account for that work is footed up, what is more natural than for the managers to conclude that if the price on DOO.OOO tons of coal per annum can bo ad- uncoil 50 cents per ton, that item along will pay for the cut-off in a few years. Hence we ask in all fairness if the recent advance is not perfectly H natural? Also if the mingled sense of depression M and indignation which is on people now should M not give way to a sense of gratitude that the M raise was not $2.00 instead of 75 cents? The fl Moffat road will cross a coal belt for two hun- M dred miles in coming here. Wnen it reaches us we shall look to see another raise of 50 cents or M $1.00 per ton. "God help the poor. Mark the lM price of coal up 50 cents more per ton, Mr. M Clerk." H |