Show COAL GOAL SHORTAGE IS i GROWING ROIN SHORTER I Actual Suffering Feared and I Promises of Immediate Relief Relief Re Re- I lief lef Are Vague I Serious as us has his been Leen tho coal situation situa situa- lout tion in iii Salt al Lake Ll e dun lug time the last few weeks the tho cl city now faces a a condition of more alarming prospects In the time matter matter mat mal ter tel of a fuel famine With Hh the lie mo moderately mod warm weather that lint has mci prevailed pre mc- le- le i I led ac trim I Sn suffering hg from froni th the thc e want 1 of coal has not existed In lit an any great degree but UL With fh the lie cold coOl snap that has conic come with the thc recent snowstorm tn and with the time c colder ler snap pre predicted lu by bythe 11 the tho local weather bureau there wi will In Inal all al probability ll bo ho man many cases of or destitution des des- and an suffering Local dealers have no mm coal on oui hand han and arid they say nay IY that It will wi be JC at least time the greater part of a month before a supply can Call cn be C o obtained On One Ouie dealer ealer is authority for COI tho lie statement that Salt SaI Lal Lake c has been cen receiving only Corl forty carloads a week when tho ho need Is carloads In that time hue There has ha been mope hope that each day a would woul bring news of or a su sufficiency clency of fuel ahead almead but that news has hns not as ns yet ct come On Onlie the lie contrary time the con condition seems to grow TOW worse as ns the time days ns n's go 10 by The Th Tho o ces of tho time coal cOlI companies arc swamped with wih orders that can not be ii filled I I ed lU Orders four tOUl weeks We u arc are from three to behind with our UI said hl a relue e c of the time C C. S. S Martin Coal ConI company com corn puny pany when asked as nl to conditions l In II Ui their h yards ard ct city 16 itt Is receiving m rc Il h half f ax UH UK much muC coal coni an It I WUK WUN ln lecel receiving at nt this time last year car slid and wc we wo we 0 hard hall up then Xo No 0 pro for 01 roller relict so 50 far Car as us we wc know now said l the corn com I puny pany Similar replies were obtained from oln other othel companies of the cl city In Iii Innot Innot not riot ono one case cac was encouragement held 0 out out u t. t I The TIme railroad companies give out figures fig fig- fg- fg um ures es lc regarding the amount of or coal being brought ought in that are alo far Car in ex excess excess ex- ex I made mado b by the thc cess of or the tire estimates I retail dealers The Oregon Short Line I oFficials are ure positive in their statements statements state state- I ments that the they have been bringing Into the lie cl city dally daly fifteen to twenty cars cars' of commercial coal conI Heavy Snow Sno at nt Mines When hen asked regarding the matter maUer General 1 Manager H. H G Williams of Fuel said the tue Utah company sid I 11 1 have ha just been advised that at nt atour our oum mines at Winter Whiter Quarters there has hm I been a n fall of oC three feet of or snow The rhe men Inca ha have been at work all al ta day clearing clear cleam- cear- cear lug ing the thc tracks and have ha succeeded In doing doln so thereby preventing a blockade blockade block block- a ade e that for Cor a time was feared If I no nomore nomore more snow falls fails and if there isn't con considerable le drifting within the next two or three days ars we can cart help relieve m the coal shortage to some degree egrel It I is a ahard ahard hard matter to get gel men enough h Corthe for Cor forlie forthe the lie mines and antl our OUI force at present is small smal but hut we have been bringing in tons tomis a da day While the lie condition is in serious the thc storm mn has not been as hurtful as was feared |