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Show fc --- - - -JtBJafaBwii IIIIIIHIIBBMIH mmmmmm,m 11- - . . r ii1 urt uBitmrsn amawa jilmjj UTAH'S COAL OlA fW SHOWS LI1TLE INCREASE . Aicurding tolft' I n uti States GooluKical Su4 j t , ft haM ben h revival o nt- u!t trado in thit state-iff ri Us year just closed. Tbiir-t' says: In Utah tho rofiv?tl.r iho iron trado haa not exrEl am influence influ-ence on coal pKxtyrctHi' , The metllierous rair.sjjt industries indus-tries liencralbr rlroCi.niit tho State have, hoWVvr, fvt.ii prosperous. pros-perous. V.nd notwilii.n !?n$r the increase of oil 'rminrpu'on in oaiowf the teirtiory ,f?hed by Utah coaJ moro pfoiu ,1 yy California Cal-ifornia and west n Nfv.iula the consumption of ah : Utah mines has incr6us. . n ,- actual tonnage nf soir,- larger mines for 11 u r ' m estimates esti-mates for Decent ' i.-..othat Utah's product ? 'how an increase of 15 t -(it over 1911 The car . . during the, last half of has hot been all that ei -iesired, but it was not vnK ' n several years past. Th Dei " & Rio Grande RailraJ. ; , which most .of Utah'g coal product is shipped, is making , extensive improvements and adding materially ma-terially to(its car supply, so that it is beleived that there will be no complaints about shortage of : car supply or other Inadequate j railway facilities in the immedi- " atefuture. The labor supply has been reduced by the return of many mine workers to their European homes because of the Balkan war, but even aside from that the 'supply has been less than for-the last three 6r four years. The markets supplied from Utah coal mines during the past year have been extended rather than restricted, shipments. L of. Utah coal to California and thft Noitrrweaterh States having r had rf healthy increase. The de- mand for coke has been good throughout the year, owing to . the prosperity of the mining and j smelting industries, especially I copper. During the last half of I the year there was difficulty in I securing sufficient supply of coke I cars, and the coke business Jias I suffered more than the coal in I consequence. |