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Show CAN COAL COME fl STILL LOWER? Cut In Prico of Nut to Other Cities RAILROAD STILL HOLDING EX- H TRA RATE AGAINST CACHE. H Fifty Cents Lopped Off the Price- In M Salt MM Is there to bo further reductions In H tho price of coal- to Logan peoplo? M This question Is fair becnuso of the H reported drop In tho price- of that H commodity In other cities. Consider- fl ablo effort has been mado by tho H Commercial-Boosters club nnd this H paper to get an adjustment of tho MU prlco of coal for Logan people. It H has been reduced somewhat, but can H still stand somo moro cutting. H Tho Inst fall wns brought nbout last MU Tuesday In Salt Lako whon tho re- H tailors cut fifty cents for nut, tho MU producing company having mado a H similar reduction to the dealers. In- MU asmuch ns tho O .S. L. nnd tho U. M P. nro still charging moro for coal H Into Logan nnd Cncho valley, It looks H that somo further reduction could bo H mado to these places by tho powers - H that be. A Just charge to Logan and H Cncho would rcduco tho rates Into mM here and glvo pcopjo tho benefit of MU tho Inst drop. Tho Hcrnld-Ilcpublican MU saytj, of the reduction mndo Tuosday: H Nut coal wns reduced In prlco yes- H tcrdny by tho retail dealers from H $5,75 to $5.25 a ton, following n, rcduc- H tlon of CO cents n ton mndo by the H producing companies. Other sizes of H lump coal remain nt $5.75, the prlco H fixed several weeks ngo after tho sue- . H cessful fight waged by The Herald- H Republican ngalnst the advance to H ?fi.25 made early In the winter. ' At tho, afflco of ono of the targe H retail companies yesterday It was B nald that the reduction In the price or nut coal wns due to tho slnck do- M lnand for this size ns compared with ,H other sizes. Previous to six years ng6 nut coal was cheaper than other sizes, h' as tho demand for It was .small. Owing ( M probably to tho difference in price. .H tho demand Incrensed enormously, i'I and the price for It was mado tho IH snmo ns for other sizes. iB For n tlmo the demand for nut coal H uns so largo that It was necessary to U crush lump coal at the mines. Of late U there has beon n marked falling oft M In tho demand for the nut size,' and M consequently tho market has become M overstocked. i M U tho reduction In prlco should so , M Increase the demand for nut coal as M to exhaust the supply coming from M the mines without crushing lnrger M sizes, another advance In prlco would M probably follow. Nut coal Is too small M for ubo In furnaces, but It can bo M burned In stoves, tho only objection - M to it being that It docs not laBt as fl long ns larger sizes. M "Tho prlco of coal, llko other com- M modltles," said a dealer yesterday, "U M bcglnnlg to bo regulated by the law M of supply and demand, and I look for iH nn Increasing tendency In this dlrec- : |