Show I WILL IT HELP UTAH Wo We do not know a n better measure measure of judgment to apply to proposed Jegl legislation than Ulan that Will m it help Utah There is now under consideration by the thc senate what Is known as Senate Bill Number Ninety hive It will if It enacted and j signed Isn d by Governor Cutler authorize any railroad company compan to engage aso in practically any other line of or business that may be bo desired by the directors of ot the company Specifically it provides that tho they ma may engage In the tue mining and selling of ot coal In building and operating operating In ing ships and In running street-car street systems And some other things It may bo be wise for tor the tho senators and representatives to examine somo some of or sho she suggested lines hines In which the tho railroad company compan may engage if It this bill be becomes becomes be- be comes a law S But the people are arc especially Interested just now In tho matter of or coal There has haa been a coal famine hero In Salt Lake and tho the whole state has as suffered a alack alack lack hack of ot fuel Tho The problem has been Why h I How will tho tim enactment of or such a law help to prevent pre pre- vent vont a repetition of or tho the coal famine It will till In terms warrant a n. railroad company to do what the Interstate commerce law Jaw will not now permit interstate carriers to do It will make easy tho the killing oft off of or every Independent coal operator in tho the state state state- and that for all time It will with the warrant of or the tho people of ot Utah compel every independent owner to build a n railroad from his mine to his market if It he expects to tell sell any coal If It such a law can be enacted In each state through which an any certain line passes tho the company owning o that line can lau laughs laugh h at the federal law which prohibits railroad companies from engaging in the production of ot coal for tor commercial purposes In view 10 of the tho difficulty now experienced In view of ot the general General trend of ot the nation toward requiring trans trana- I companies to conn confine no themselves to transportation tion this proposed measure seems unlikely to help tho the thoI people of ot Utah I it seems Indeed moro more likely y to hurt them |