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Show COAL RATES INTO CACHE. Tho Consolidated Fuel company and tho Castle Valley Coal company or Utah havo filed n petition with tho Interstate Commerce Comhlfsslon asking ask-ing for an Investigation and adjustment adjust-ment oft coal rates from U.ah to tho surrounding1 stntes. We would' llko to add a furthor request, that, thq commission com-mission investigate and adjust tho rates or tho Wyoming coal companies compan-ies to Cache Valley in particular. It would bo far moro Interesting to us. Tho Investigation asked for would go Into tho workings of tho coal companies com-panies In tho DlamondvIUe, Hammerer Hammer-er and Hock Springs, Wyoming, districts, dis-tricts, and tho Until districts In Em. ory and Carbon counties. Tho Complaint Com-plaint nlleges thnt ho railroads, make discriminatory rates against the Utnh Independent companies to towns in tho outlying country .which aro so unjust thnt It amounts to n stifling of competition. Tho complaint rurther says that tho Rio Grande Railway company does not handlo tho products or tho Utah mlues as It should do, but provides Inadequate powor and car equipment, much to the disadvantage disadvan-tage or the complaining companies. Tho entering wedge Is made. That start, wo sincerely trust, will throw open the conditions prevailing hore in Cache where wo havo to pay moro Tor conl hauled Into our bins thnn do Salt Lake, Ogdon and l'rovo ror, tho coal that passes right by our doors. Tho coal that goes through Cache Junction to tho cities south of us u hundrod or so miles costs tho dealers less by twonty-rlvo cents n ton than tho snino coal right in tho Junction Itself. Such n condition wo think deserves careful consideration on tho part of tho Interstate Commorco Commission. Why wo should bo singled out ns tho particular goat or tho railroad people peo-ple Is- boyond our kon. Why a tribute or twenty-rivo cents per ton on tho heat wo havo to uro must bo paid to those fat railroad pooplo, Is qulto impossible im-possible to sny. Uphold, tho hands of tho commission that Justice may comn to a long suffering peoplo. |