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Show RETAIL PRICE OF COAL NOTCMANGES) SALT LAKE, Oct. 2. Retail prices of prepared coals In Salt Lako City will be effected but -slightly, if at all, by the blanket schedule announced yesterday by Dr. H. A. Garfield, national nation-al fuel administrator, if his order has been correctly interpreted by local producers and dealers. According to press dispatchos the order provides that gross margins by retailers will be confined to the average aver-age of 1915, plus a maximum increase of 90 pop cent, with a check provision that the average margin of July of this year shall not bo exceeded. The gross margin of retailers in Salt Lake on prepared coals, exclusive of delivery charges, during 1915 was $1 a ton. The order of Dr. Garfield would permit a gross margin of $1.30 a ton but for the fact that in July of this year tho average gross margin was $1.15 a ton. In July tho retailers paid 53 a ton at the mines, $1-35 freight charges, obtained a gross margin of $1.15 and added a delivery charge of $1, making the retail price $0.50 a ton. Pince then, however, the freight rate has been returned to $1.60 a ton, an extra charge of 25 cents, bringing tho price up to $G.75, which, according to interpretations of local dealors and producers, will bo sustained in Dr. Garfield's order. This does not Include tho jobbers' revenue of 15 cents a ton. i In other parts of Utah, however, the majority of the mines sold to dealers at $3.50 a tortf and those sections may profit to some extent by the order of the fuel administration. |