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Show oo COAL SHORTAGE M WINTER Salt Iakc, July 20. In case of a severe winter this year Salt Lake will face an inevitable coal shortage, according to J. A Reeves, general freight agent of the Oregon Short Line, who announced yesterday that the annual btoragc rate for the summer sum-mer months would be cancelled next Monday, July 31. and the cost of winter coal increased to the winter rate of 5.75 per ton. Because of tho light winter last year, but few pcrsonb have taken advantage of tho low rate to btoro their winter supply during the three months just ending. In fact, the amount of coal stored because of tho low rate has not been sufficient, it is said, to justify a continuance of the rate next year, and It is probable that It wl)l not be inaugurated here-alter. here-alter. "Should the proverbial rule that a bard winter follows a Hgnt winter prove true this year, there will be cpnsldeiable conl trouble in Salt Lake," said Mr. Reeves "The railroads rail-roads have attempted for several years to encourage storing for resident res-ident uses wherever possible in an effort to alleviate the abnormal de-mnnd de-mnnd during the coldest monthb of tho winter. This year It has proved a failure. There is but little coal In the bins of Salt Lake residents at present. So little, in fact, that In case of :i cold spell the mines cannot turn It out fast enough, nor the railroads rail-roads handle It in quantities sufficient suffi-cient to "keep the supply at normal." cc |