Ogden Daily Standard | 1907-08-20 | Page 2 | Less Coal Mined

f LESS COAL MINED boise commercial club committee presents figures that alarm baige aug 16 A E carlson and M alexander have returned a to the coal mines tor the purpose 0 investigating conditions and reporting to the balse commercial club and to the city council in their report they state that they found that the production at the mines will be 20 per cent less this year than last and that the increase in consumption Is from 20 to 25 per cent the report states that noise Is dependent upon two mines for its supply of coal the kemmerer qualey at Kemmer cr wyo and central coal coke company of rock springs wyo the transportation question is dealt with at length but no recommendation IB made that a certain amount of coal might be secured from mines in utah during october november and december is the opinion expressed by the committee the great difficulty in the way of this is the tact that the oregon short line and the rio grande west ern have no traffic agreement the closing of the ogden gateway made it impossible to ship coal from the utah mines into tho territory of the oregon short line without paying the full rate on the 0 S L from ogden to bolee and the local charges from the mines in utah to ogden thereby increasing the coat of coal a ton after making a thorough investigation the committee reports that although officials of the 0 S L pro claim their intention to effect traffic arrangements with the rio grande such an agreement is in their opinion as far off today as ever meanwhile bolee coal have announced an advance in prices 1 a ton effective september 1