Show FISHER ANSWERS MONDELL MOfiD EU resents criticism of 0 department departments policy in valuation of coal land and say says price prices are fair chicago maintaining that the policy of the united states state s government with relation to the val valuation bation ot at the public coal lands ie to not open to the criticisms against it and that it Is I 1 designed to prevent mon a poll bation and to encourage development wal ival ter 4 usher lisher ot of the later inter joron lor 00 sunday made public hia his reply to the protests against thit pol icy submitted to him last june by representative frank W mandell Mon at 0 wyoming representative mondell mandell charged that fixed by the government were prohibitive that they paralyzed the coal An industry Austry in tho the west result ed in increasing tho the cost ot of coal to the consumer from CO GO cents to 1 a ton and created a monopoly mr mandell dell also said that prices for coal lands in all the working fields run from to an acre that millions ot of acres ara are rated at values congress nan tian F W mondell mandell above ISO an acre that prices in the better fields are in excess ot of those charged in commercial practice n the asarue fields or for better graae coals in eastern fields all these allegations secretary fisher after thorough study submit submits as apparently based on henshon as to the basis on which val nation is trade aa as to the prices placed on coal lands and as to the tb effect which the classifications haye baye had on the sale of public lands the price prices now fixed secretary fisher continued are designed not to create monopoly in the hands bands ot of present owners of coal landd but to prevent monopoly by making it unprofitable to purchase large areas for holding wito It hout out development |