Ogden Sun | 1905-12-05 | Page 8 | I Am out of Coal, Are You?

AM OUT OF COAL ARE YOU A QUESTION BEING ASKED BY MANY IN THIS CITY consumers are now few sacks of coal at a y time from mondays standard 1 I am out of coal and cannot get any this is the sentence that expresses the condition generally through out the city three times during the fall and early winter the shortage in coal has caused a voice of remonstrance to be raised each time the situation has been a degree more arlt ical now schemes are being devised by the coal dealers to equally distribute throughout the city the supply available heretofore Hereto fora orders were pieced for beveral tons of boal by one person when the coal arrived tha few would receive the entire consignment ahil the many would wait until another consignment arrived this arrangement caused so much dissatisfaction that the dealers emited all orders to one ton each the plan was practical for some time but coal ia now 60 scarce that coal dealers are limiting each order to n few sacks in this way they are confident that the situation can be freed from actual distress among the small consumers i burines Buri neM houses and office building that use slack have not been cold bufi iho supply on hand is running so ahat not a few are in such straightened circumstances that thy are borrowing coal information from coal men revealed empty bins in tour yards early this morning later in the day cars arrived many more are on the road between the city and the mines are expected to arrive immediately tha apparent cause of the shortage Is the limited motive power and the lack of rolling why this condition exists is explained by the railroad officials this way after the summer rush of traffic was over many engines and freight cars have had so etrene oua a season that the repair shops are crowded with disabled locomotives and cars sixteen rio grand engines aie now la the shops at salt lake undergoing repairs that the aemmer rush made necessary the local chops are filled with engines and cars when repairs are finished ciaJa predict an immediate forwarding of the cars of coal that line the switches from tho mines to the distributing points