Show 1 STRENUOUS EFFORTS I MADE DY BY OFFICIALS I L Railroad Officers Spent Busy 1 Day Trying to Remedy r Coal Shortage PROMISE EARLY EAR Y RELIEF I. I I 4 i L Rv Jt r c Voin 1 du Appears Appearson 0 on oi Scene to Secure Fuel ruel t for tor ElLo Elko Ogden Jail Jun 24 Generi 4 General Superintendent E. E E Buckingham Assistant J J. M. M Davis an and l l S Superintendent l F F. E E. j I C Costello st llo of the Hie Oregon Short Line I 9 came to the city to today a nn and put put ut in a av aI v I s strenuous day In tn a 0 conce concerted ted effort to rc relieve the coal conI situation tion in this city Seventeen cars of oC coal arrived in the cit city yesterday over the Short Line nn and S to today ay three more cars of the thc precious t were WCO diverted di to the thc Ogden trade t. l' l Thc The officials stat slate tnt that the situation positively will be relieved cd within the very next few fow days das The railroads are aie running t clos cioc e themselves and have ha no more than one Lays las supply on hand The Thc They 11 y fact tact that the hc Cumberland mine No o. o 2 Z was ns ebbed closed down on account of fire lire z meant a loss to the public of 1000 tons dail daily This amount is almost sufficient suf suf- b to run the Salt Lake division of oC I the Southern Pacific which requires t. t rpm 1200 lOO to 1500 tons lons per day 1 a an and had it been turned into the thc channels of tra trade c would e ha done much to toward toward to to- w ward rd alleviating the thc distressing situa situa- 2 tion lion f o Arrangements have been completed to sen send a train of 25 or 30 cars of coal direct from rota Chicago to Reno Nov the ti-In ti will wm be sent over o the I Illinois l Central to Omaha and over the Union Pacific to Ogden then to Reno neno f Dr J J. J A A. Stubbs president of ot the thc University of or Nevada and brother o of J J. J C. C bb director of the Harriman lines Jines arrived cd in iii Chicago Tuesday ar on a commission from the thet t citizens citizens' committee of or Reno fleno to purchase purchase pur pur- chase a quantity of soft sort coal He first l. l tried to get et the coal in Ogden OSden from the railroad company compan on J last st Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day da but found the engines here were running light ht of fuel nu and he then went on to Chicago There lie he found foun that the thc dealers had hall ral raised ed prices on account o of the fuel famine and yesterday yes yes- he was in communication lon with the lie owners of several SC mines In Ill Illi i r nois The cars will be s sent rit to the w. w i mine where the coal is Js bou bought ht nd t tho the run to Nevada started from Crom th there r |