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Show Great Danger of Coal Famine Railroad Men Say it Will be Impossible to Get Much Coal this Winter. Logan Is oven now without coal, and it Is Impossible to secure more than an occasional car of "slack." Some are Inclined to feel that we aro placed at this disadvantage by tho Oregon Short Line as a retaliation for turning eastern freight to the Rio Grande In preference to the U. P. and O. S. L. This Is not tho fact If Information at hand Is correct. Ollloials of other roads than the Short Line, say that all the western roads are so swamped with business that It Is Impossible to handle the tralllo at this time. There are not sulllclcnt cars and motive power Is wholly inadequate. The beet crop this year is heavier than ever before and the traffic will not be ended beforo tho tlrst of December. At tho present time the mines aio working small forces and when the cars are supplied In December the mines will be unable to supply the demand. de-mand. The statement Is made that both Ogdn and Salt Lake are as badly hi need of coal as are we at the present time and will bo as badly cramped for funl this winter. A Urm In Salt Lake city that has made every effort to get coal for storage has now but twenty-tlvecars In reserve. This llrm sells ten to twenty cars dally In the winter season, so it Is clearly evident evi-dent that the shortage Is not confined to Cache Valley. Hall roads arc now diverting engine coal to certain factories fac-tories In order that they may bo kept going. Under the circumstances and the possibility of an extreme shortage In coal this winter it might be tho advisable ad-visable thing for the public to cast about for wood. |