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Show COAL SITUATION IS GROWING BETTER This morning's Salt Lake Herald-Republican Herald-Republican says: "With the Denver & Rio Grande railroad operating at almost normal during the past two days, due to better weather and transportation of coal trains being given preference over "red ball" freight, the coal situation sit-uation was materially improved yesterday, yes-terday, and many points in Utah and southern Idaho and Montana which Were suffering from a fuel famine for ten days, are now being supplied with coal from the Carbon county 'mines. According to F. R. Rockwell, assistant as-sistant general manager of the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande railroad, all coal which had accumulated on sidings between Salt Lake and the mines during the coal blockade has been moved and approximately 2 50 cars of coal a day are now being loaded at the mines. Of this amount about 15 per cent is being delivered to the retail coal dealers in Salt Lake and the balance is billed to towns on the Denver & Rio Grande, Western Pacific, Pa-cific, Salt Lake Route and Oregon Short Line, the latter carrying Utah coal consigned to points in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Last night 250 to 300 empties were on the way to the mines of Carbon Car-bon county, and with a greater number num-ber of locomotives at its command because of easier hauling, the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande anticipates being able to furnish the normal number of empties from this time on. Since December 22. the Denver & Rio Grande has not accepted any em-'pties em-'pties from the Oregon Short Line, hut will again accept them tomorrow at the rate of 20 a day. In the mean time empties that have been strung along the line for the past two or three weeks, and wh'ch became blocked on the sidings by snow, will be hauled to the mines. Locally the coal situation is much improved and it is not believed that there are any cases of actual suffering suffer-ing because of lack of fuel from Salt Lake. Sixty-three cars of coal were received in this city yesterday, from the mines of Carbon count? and were in the yards of the dealers last night. This morning several trains more will be received, and it is anticipated that the supply will be normal within a few days. |
