| Show Vi COAL GOAL MEN RAISE iF CRY GRY OF FAMINE Advise Consumers to Store Stoc V j Fuel During Summer i Months V V BITTEN BUYERS ARE WARY i Changed Conditions May Result Re Re- suit sult in Shortage During r Cold Weather r c S Because they were somewhat fooled last Lake Lale V j year residents of oC Salt are r r- not enthusiastic enthusIastic-at at least many mat of them are arc not when not when the they are ale t told hl to 0 tor r 1 storo store coal for COl the coming winter They received the samo same admonition last V summer and many of or them at a 11 sacrifice s. crl I- I flee fice put away con considerable fuel for forr forthe or r the tho months usually marked b by a serious seri serl- ous Otis shortage Then Ihen came the panic th tho smelters closed th their h works work n the n un railroads diminished their consumption consumption 11 j tion Uon of or fuel anti and fis as a II result the serious seri serl- ous shortage p. p in commercial coal did not materialize in the proportions that had been hen anticipated Tho rho man who JIl went to a 0 gre great t deal o of trouble and andS some expense In storing coal cOill was S worse vorse off than his neighbor l who did 4 V flO not because e plenty plent of coal was available availS available avail avail- S V able and prices were lower As a aI ai i rc result he hc Is not so anxious to fill his f V bins during tho the hot months this season I as 9 s he was last ast V V I ln s Condition I t fon I in L The smelters are aro reopening the he railroads are increasing their business mills and manufacturing plants lans are blowing in their furnaces and anti there I Is 13 large probability that coal will be J scarce during some of or the months of oC the tho coming winter Another condition which affects the local market and the prospect for tho the I- I winter Is the operation of the tho Interstate interS Inter Inter- S state In which h hl became mn effective t j j last at t May ay and nd which tich jj will vilI doubtless V I m mean a curtailment in the tle supply of oi I coal to lo o reach this city Tho The ruling i 1 referred to is the one ono which prohibits 7 railroad or other transportation com com- 4 J panics from shipping commodities of t g their own production pro n out of oC the state where thc they ar are produced Tho The conceded coni coni con- con i cc ceded er reason for the enactment of off I f this ruling was as to prevent any railroad railroad rail rail- road from discriminating in favor of or orIts I f. f Its own products product to the hurt of competitors competitors com corn In the same line of or business V Corf CodI is one of the tho commodities affected affect affect- fl PA Id by hI the ruling so o that a n. railroad S company compan which owns a II coal oal mine can cannot not nol ship Its coal outside of oC the state V in which the tho mine is located and live he within tho the boundary of the Jaw law The CU only commodity excepted in iii the rulIng ruling rul- rul i Ing is lumber V Ruling May Ja Utah f Th The operation of the ruling Is es especially es- es V interesting to residents of oft t I Salt Lake as the city will be he directly I affected About Aboul fiO GO O per cent or of tho the coal used In the tho local ocal market marlet has in ini inthe i the past been supplied from the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line mines in This coal c can n not now m S be t from W Wyoming Into Utah jor c hc 4 Tho The railroad companies may mav bring In coal for their own use in their shops and engines but it would be illegal d for them to put any of the fuel ruel on the market for commercial purposes S The ruling docs does not mean that all allt t Wyoming coal will be excluded as ase e coal companies that are not owned by b railroad d or other transportation corporations corporatIons corporations cor- cor can ship their product at will Such companies as ns the Sweet Sweet- t I water owning mines in states outside I of oC Utah can brin bring as much commercial commercial commer commer- V cial coal into this state stale as the railroads rall- rall t ron roads rons s will haul V V Utah Fuels Fuel's Market V It is an open secret that the Utah Ulah Fuel company owned by hy the Rio Grande interests Is not shipping its Us I a coal oal into into- Nevada Nc as formerly A re- re suit cult o of this appears to be an Increase increase increase in- in crease in the supply at homo home The Nevada market must of or necessity b bex st 1 supplied largely largel by Utah mines and 4 the coal which has formerly been supplied sup- sup V plied by br tho the Utah Fuel company will willin in the future come from the properties V II of oC independent mining concerns V Ever since the ruling was announced L there has been opposition to it on onI I the part of or man many of oC the railroads of oC the United States Stales Some of o these I lines the L and tho the Penn Penn- p V sylvania anla for example are hit very verr V hard ard by the ruling and much pressure pressure pres- pres c. c sure has been leen brought to bear In the V V I direction o of revocation or moderation V tV at least V I Sending Out Pamphlets V c Local coal dealers are arc sending out outS out'S S 'S D pamphlets to their customers announcing announcing an an- that although the coal situation situa tion for fOl the tho winter months can not I be he foretold with any degree degroo of accuracy ac uc- ac- ac 5 curacy the part of oC wisdom advises 1 c that coal be he stored now while it is plentiful It is given o on good authority that t r the sugar factories of or Utah and Idaho V t I will soon be begin ln work on the storage of oC about tons of or coal this beV being be bo- V lag ing about 60 50 per pel cent of ot their consumption consumption con con- during the tho running season 4 The Tho smelters js s and other otherS S I plants of oC tho the state will also be he active activeS S f In placing orders within a n few weeks i and tho the commercial market will not nott t f be so o amply supplied as at present I Tho The annual consumption of oC Salt V 5 Lake is given as approximately V tons This Is for Cor domestic and commercial com corn V mercial purposes and does not Int in include In- In t elude clude the thousands of or tons used b by bythe bythe the railroads s. s The Oregon Short Line Is storing I V coal all along Its Hs lines in preparation S for winter and tho the resl resident ent of or Salt V I Lake Lale who has room for a n. few tons of oC the fuel is advised to lo get them In before snow flies |
